Vermont does not have a procedure for write-in candidates to file a declaration of write-in candidacy. Instead it simply tallies all write-in votes.
For president, these candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state received these totals: Jill Stein 897; Peter Sonski 53; Shiva Ayyadurai 8; Vermin Supreme 9; Randall Terry 6.
To see the list, see here. Click on “Total write-ins”, which is found underneath the totals for the presidential candidates who were on the ballot.
The Delaware Election Commission has released this write-in tally from last month’s election.
For presidential candidates who were on the ballot in at least one state, the totals are: Jill Stein 914; Peter Sonski 98; Cornel West 96; Claudia De la Cruz 87; Shiva Ayyadurai 4. To get the totals, one must add up the county totals. Delaware only has three counties.
Brighton, Vermont cast 12.77% of its presidential vote for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. This seems to be the strongest showing he had in the nation. Brighton is in Essex County, the most Republican county in Vermont. It is in the northeast corner of the state. In 2024 it cast 56.23% of its vote for Donald Trump, 29.60% for Kamala Harris, .62% for Chase Oliver, .47% for Cornel West, and .31% for Claudia De la Cruz (Jill Stein wasn’t on the ballot in Vermont).
Brighton also voted for the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Gerald Malloy. Malloy lost the election to Bernie Sanders, the independent incumbent who was re-elected. Here is a small article about Brighton, which has a population of 1.157.
In the 2020 presidential election, 158,407,383 votes were cast for presidential candidates. In the 2024 election, now that all votes have been counted, we can know that only 155,627,481 votes were cast for president. So the decline was 2,779,902 votes.
This is the first time that the number of votes cast for president has dropped since the pair of elections 2008-2012. Like 2024, 2012 also saw a drop compared to four years earlier.
Unfortunately, all election return data for United States presidential elections is flawed. That is because some states don’t report the number of write-in votes cast for candidates who hadn’t filed to have their write-ins counted.
On December 13, the California Secretary of State released the final official vote totals. The only declared presidential write-in candidate, Peter Sonski of the American Solidarity Party, received 2,939. In 2020 the party’s presidential nominee had polled 2,605 write-ins in California.
Cornel West and Shiva Ayyadurai, presidential candidates who filed for write-in status in most of the states in which they were not on the ballot, did not file in California because the write-in filing procedure is so difficult. It requires the candidate to recruit 54 candidates for presidential elector, and 54 more candidates for alternate presidential elector. All 108 individuals must fill out a notarized declaration form. This law is discriminatory, because presidential elector candidates for parties that are on the ballot do not need to file any paperwork. Instead their party simply files a list containing their names and addresses with the Secretary of State.
