1824 Vermont gubernatorial election

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{{Infobox election

| election_name = 1824 Vermont gubernatorial election

| country = Vermont

| flag_year = 1804

| type = presidential

| election_date = {{Start date|1824|10|14}}

| ongoing = no

| previous_election = 1823 Vermont gubernatorial election

| previous_year = 1823

| next_election = 1825 Vermont gubernatorial election

| next_year = 1825

| image_size = 160x160px

| image1 = Cornelius P Van Ness.jpg

| nominee1 = Cornelius P. Van Ness

| party1 = Democratic-Republican

| popular_vote1 = 13,413

| percentage1 = 85.3%

| image2 = Joel Doolitle (Vermont Supreme Court Justice).jpg

| nominee2 = Joel Doolittle

| party2 = Democratic-Republican

| popular_vote2 = 1,962

| percentage2 = 12.5%

| map_image = 1824 Vermont gubernatorial election results map by county.svg

| map_size = 220px

| map_caption = County results
Van Ness: {{legend0|#73BC84|50–60%}} {{legend0|#008C21|70–80%}} {{legend0|#006E1A|80–90%}} {{legend0|#005113|90–100%}}

| title = Governor

| before_election = Cornelius P. Van Ness

| before_party = Democratic-Republican

| after_election = Cornelius P. Van Ness

| after_party = Democratic-Republican

}}

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The 1824 Vermont gubernatorial election took place in September and October, and resulted in the election of Cornelius P. Van Ness to a one-year term as governor.{{cite book |editor1-last=Walton |editor1-first=E. P. |editor1-link=Eliakim Persons Walton |date=1879 |title=Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont |volume=VII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3p06AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA111 |location=Montpelier, VT |publisher=J. & J. M. Poland |pages=110–111 |via=Google Books}}

The Vermont General Assembly met in Montpelier on October 14. 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. Democratic-Republican Cornelius P. Van Ness was the only major candidate. The committee determined that Van Ness had easily won a second one-year term against only token opposition.

In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican Aaron Leland had won election to a third one-year term against only scattering opposition. A Vermont newspaper reported the results as: Leland, 14,166 (98.4%); scattering, 220 (1.6%).{{cite news |editor1-last=Mills |editor1-first=E. |editor2-last=Mills |editor2-first=T. |date=October 22, 1824 |title=Vermont Legislature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75634667/vermont-legislature/ |work=Northern Sentinel |location=Burlington, VT |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Benjamin Swan was unopposed for election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-fifth. Though he had nominally been a Federalist, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalists he was frequently unopposed.{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=64759 |title=Swan, Benjamin |last=Joshua L. |date=November 26, 2004 |website=Our Campaigns |publisher=Our Campaigns.com |access-date=March 21, 2021}} Vermont newspapers indicated that the results were: Swan, 12,743 (99.9%); scattering, 14 (0.1%).

In the race for governor, the results of the popular vote were reported as follows.