2018 United States Senate election in Vermont

Two-term independent Senator Bernie Sanders was re-elected with 71% of the vote in 2012. Sanders, a candidate for president in the 2016 primary election and one of only three independent members of Congress, is a self-described democratic socialist. Sanders had caucused with the Democratic Party since taking office in 2007, and was the chairman of the Budget Committee. He was 77 years old in 2018. Sanders ran for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. After failing to win the nomination, he announced that he would run for re-election for his Senate seat in 2018. ==Independents==

Candidates • Brad Peacock, farmer • Bernie Sanders, incumbent U.S. senator (caucuses with Democrats) Endorsements ==Democratic primary==

Candidates Nominee • Bernie Sanders, incumbent U.S. senator (declined nomination) Eliminated in primary • Folasade Adeluola, activist Withdrawn • Al Giordano, journalist Results ==Republican primary==

Candidates Nominee • Lawrence Zupan, real estate broker Withdrew nomination • H. Brooke Paige, former CEO of Remmington News Service Eliminated in primary • Rocky De La Fuente, businessman • Jasdeep Pannu, attorney Did not file • John MacGovern, former Massachusetts state representative and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2012 • Scott Milne, businessman, nominee for governor in 2014 and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2016 The Vermont Republican Party picked Lawrence Zupan, who came in second place in the primary, to be the Republican nominee. ==General election==

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