ADDISON COUNTY — The polls in Vermont closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3.
The first election result to come in is a win for incumbent U.S. Rep. Becca Balint. With a little over a third of votes counted, the Associated Press around 8 p.m. called the race for the Brattleboro Democratic incumbent. The AP reported that Balint had 64% of the votes and Republican challenger Gerald Malloy had 32%.
Here are thumbnail reports we can report as they come in:
VERMONT SENATE
Addison District, which includes all of Addison County plus Rochester, Huntington and Buel’s Gore, sends two people to the State Senate..
With results from seven towns in, newcomer Hannah Sessions, a Leicester Democrat, appears to have a few more votes than incumbent Sen. Ruth Hardy of Middlebury. Both are out-polling the other incumbent, Sen. Steven Heffernan, a Bristol Republican. In fourth is another first-time candidate, New Haven Republican Andy Klein.
VERMONT HOUSE RACES
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Addison-2: Tanya Byker, a Cornwall Democrat and chair of her town selectboard, has won the House seat that covers Cornwall, Salisbury, Leicester, Ripton and Goshen. With four of the five towns reporting, she defeated Cornwall Republican Annie Wilson. Byker got about 65% of the votes cast, and Wilson had around 32%.
