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The1974 United States Senate election in Vermont took place on November 5, 1974. The incumbentRepublicanSenator,George Aiken, did not run for re-election to another term in the United States Senate. TheDemocratic nominee,Patrick Leahy, thestate's attorney ofChittenden County, defeatedRepublican nomineeRep.Richard W. Mallary to become Aiken's successor. This election also includedLiberty Union Party candidateBernie Sanders, who won 4.1% of the vote.
This election marked the first time in Vermont's history that it elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. Leahy remained the only Democrat ever elected to the Senate from Vermont until2022, when he retired and was succeeded byPeter Welch. The last non-Republican elected to the Senate from Vermont before 1974 wasLawrence Brainerd, aFree Soil Party member chosen in 1854 by an anti-slavery coalition of theVermont General Assembly to fill a brief vacancy in this same seat.
Leahy and Sanders would later serve together in the Senate from Sanders's election in2006 until Leahy's retirement in 2023.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Richard W. Mallary | 27,221 | 59.1% | |
| Republican | Charles R. Ross | 14,479 | 35.8% | |
| Republican | T. Serse Ambrosini | 2,265 | 4.9% | |
| None | Scattering | 61 | 0.1% | |
| Total votes | 44,026 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Patrick Leahy | 19,801 | 83.9% | |
| Democratic | Nathaniel Frothingham | 3,703 | 15.7% | |
| None | Scattering | 97 | 0.4% | |
| Total votes | 23,601 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Patrick Leahy | 70,629 | 49.47% | |
| Republican | Richard W. Mallary | 66,223 | 46.38% | |
| Liberty Union | Bernie Sanders | 5,901 | 4.13% | |
| Write-in | 19 | 0.01% | ||
| Total votes | 142,772 | 100.00% | ||
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