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2000 United States Senate election in Vermont

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Field	Value
election_name	2000 United States Senate election in Vermont
country	Vermont
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1994 United States Senate election in Vermont
previous_year	1994
next_election	2006 United States Senate election in Vermont
next_year	2006
election_date	November 7, 2000
image1	File:Jim Jeffords (cropped).jpg
image_size	x150px
nominee1	Jim Jeffords
party1	Republican Party (United States)
popular_vote1	189,133
percentage1	65.56%
image2	File:EdFlanagan.png
nominee2	Ed Flanagan
party2	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote2	73,352
percentage2	25.43%
map	{{switcher
map_caption	Jeffords:
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	Jim Jeffords
before_party	Republican Party (United States)
after_election	Jim Jeffords
after_party	Republican Party (United States)

|x220px |County results |x220px |Municipality results}} The 2000 United States Senate election in Vermont took place on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords won re-election to a third term in office. In May 2001, Jeffords left the Republican Party and announced that he would become an independent who would caucus with the Democratic Party. His party exit broke the 50–50 lock in the Senate and effectively gave the Democrats the majority. Thus, that switch marked the first time since 1855 that Vermont had no Republicans in its entire congressional delegation.

Despite the 40-point victory, this is the last federal election in Vermont won by a Republican, and the last time as of 2024 that either party won this seat.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Ed Flanagan, Vermont Auditor of Accounts
Jan Backus, former Vermont State Senator and 1994 Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate

Declined

Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Jim Jeffords, incumbent U.S. Senator
Rick Hubbard

Results

Independents and minor parties

Independents

Declared

Rick Hubbard

Declined

Bernie Sanders, U.S. Representative from VT-AL; former mayor of Burlington

General election

Flanagan was widely seen as having little chance of beating the highly popular Jeffords, who was thought of as a liberal Republican. Flanagan campaigned on "shaking up Washington" and portrayed himself as a reformer. Both candidates supported same-sex civil unions and remained silent on the issue of same-sex marriage, but Flanagan, who was openly gay, noted receiving backlash from voters opposed to same-sex marriage. The LGBT community in Vermont was divided between which candidate to support, as Jeffords had been strongly supportive of LGBT rights and had received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign.

Endorsements

Organizations

Sierra Club
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Results

Notes

References

(August 20, 1999). "Democrats Waiting On Vermont and Delaware". The Washington Post.
"Archived copy".
"Archived copy".
(October 5, 2006). "Senator Jeffords on Firm Ground for Re-election Bid". The New York Times.
(November 2, 2000). "Gay Senate candidate an underdog amid Vermont gay union backlash".
(July 24, 2000). "Gay Official Aims to Shake Up Senate". The Washington Post.
(August 2000). "Leaders Wanted".
(May 7, 2000). "U.S. Chamber Announces Latest of Political Endorsements".
"Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives".

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