Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas Announces Candidates for 2024 Presidential Primaries

December 19 2023

Montpelier, VT – Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas announced today that, following the Friday, December 15th, 5:00 p.m. deadline, 12 candidates have qualified to be placed on the ballot in Vermont’s March 5th Presidential Primary. Six candidates have qualified for the Democratic ballot and six candidates for the Republican ballot.

The Democratic Party candidates qualifying for placement on the ballot in Vermont are:

• Joseph R. Biden Jr
• Mark Stewart Greenstein
• Jason Michael Palmer
• Dean Phillips
• Cenk Uygur
• Marianne Williamson

The Republican Party candidates qualifying for placement on the ballot in Vermont are:

• Ryan L. Binkley
• Chris Christie
• Ron DeSantis
• Nikki Haley
• Vivek Ramaswamy
• Donald J. Trump

Vermont law requires any candidate seeking to have his or her name printed on the ballot of a major party presidential primary to file petitions signed by no fewer than 1,000 registered Vermont voters, along with a $2,000 filing fee.

The Presidential Primary will be held on March 5^th, 2024, the same day as Town Meeting Day in Vermont. Voters are reminded that by law they must declare which ballot, Democratic or Republican, they wish to vote when voting in the Presidential Primary, and that choice will be recorded. Presidential Primary ballots are not mailed out to Vermont voters (unlike General Election ballots) but voters may request absentee ballots through the My Voter Page at mvp.vermont.gov or by contacting their town or city clerk. Please visit this link for a list of clerks https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/town-clerks/