Election Name: | 1827 Vermont gubernatorial election |
Country: | Vermont |
Flag Year: | 1804 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1826 Vermont gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 1826 |
Next Election: | 1828 Vermont gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 1828 |
Image1: | Ezra Butler (Vermont Governor).jpg |
Nominee1: | Ezra Butler |
Party1: | Democratic-Republican |
Popular Vote1: | 13,699 |
Percentage1: | 87.5% |
Nominee2: | Joel Doolittle |
Party2: | Democratic-Republican |
Popular Vote2: | 1,951 |
Percentage2: | 12.5% |
Governor | |
Before Election: | Ezra Butler |
Before Party: | Democratic-Republican |
After Election: | Ezra Butler |
After Party: | Democratic-Republican |
The 1827 Vermont gubernatorial election took place in September and October, and resulted in the election of Ezra Butler to a one-year term as governor.[1]
The Vermont General Assembly met in Montpelier on October 11.[1] The Vermont House of Representatives appointed a committee to review the votes of the freemen of Vermont for governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, and members of the governor's council.[1] The committee determined that Ezra Butler had won election to a second one-year term.[1]
In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Henry Olin had won election to a one-year term.[1] Newspapers of the time reported the vote totals as: Olin, 9,411 (67.5%); Samuel C. Crafts, 2,667 (19.1%); Israel P. Dana, 1,865 (13.4%).[2]
Benjamin Swan won election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-eighth.[1] Though he had nominally been a Federalist, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalist Party he was frequently unopposed.[3] According to a contemporary news account, Swan was chosen nearly unanimously, with no major opposition and only 17 votes scattering.[2]
The vote totals in the governor's race were reported as follows:[1]