How does government work in Vermont?

What may surprise you here

• Vermont has no intermediate appeals court. The Superior Court has one unit for each county and five divisions: civil, criminal, environmental, family, and probate. source

Legislature

Name

General Assembly source

Upper chamber: seats

30 source

Upper chamber: term in years

2 source

Lower chamber: seats

150 source

Lower chamber: term in years

2 source

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years

2 source

Next regular election

2028 source

Lieutenant governor

separate election source

Attorney general

elected source

Secretary of state

elected source

Courts

Highest court

Supreme Court source

Intermediate appeals court

None source

Main trial court

Superior Court source

How high-court judges reach the bench

gubernatorial appointment source

Local government

Called

county source

How many

14 source

Cities and towns

The Census Bureau counted 40 municipal governments and 237 township (town) governments in Vermont in 2022. source

Schools

The Census Bureau counted 121 independent school district governments in Vermont in 2022. source

Elections

Chief election official

Secretary of State source

Who runs elections locally

Town clerks and Boards of Civil Authority source

Primary type

open source

Regular governor elections fall in

even source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Phil Scott RRepublican, in office since January 5, 2017. source

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Sources