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The 1972 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1972. The incumbent Republican Gov. Deane C. Davis was not a candidate for re-election to another term as Governor of Vermont. The Democratic nominee, Thomas P. Salmon, defeated the Republican nominee, Luther F. Hackett, to become his successor. Future U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ran as a member of the Liberty Union Party.^[1]

Republican primary

Republican primary results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Luther F. Hackett	33,323	54.4
	Republican	James M. Jeffords	27,902	45.5
	Republican	Other	46	0.1
Total votes			61,271	100.00

Democratic primary results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Thomas P. Salmon	10,552	99.0
	Democratic	Other	109	1.0
Total votes			10,661	100.00

1972 Vermont gubernatorial election^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Thomas P. Salmon	101,751	53.8
	Independent Vermonters	Thomas P. Salmon	2,782	1.5
	Total	Thomas P. Salmon	104,533	55.3
	Republican	Luther F. Hackett	82,491	43.6
	Liberty Union	Bernie Sanders^[1]	2,175	1.1
	N/A	Other	38	0.0
Total votes			189,237	100.00

^ ^a ^b Tuesday, October 3, 1972, Bernard Sanders, 31, after losing the Senate race, runs for governor in 1972 under the Liberty Union banner. At a debate with his two major-party rivals at Johnson State College, Sanders wins repeated applause from a crowd of 350 students as he attacks the Republican and the Democratic candidates for governor. He accuses the GOP of a welfare policy that would make poor people "eat dirt" and chides both parties for not advocating stiff taxation of corporations in Vermont.http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/2015/05/26/sanders-begin-political-revolution/27991467/
^ ^a ^b "Primary Election Results" (PDF). Office of the Vermont Secretary of State. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
^ "General Election Results - Governor - 1789-2012" (PDF). Office of the Vermont Secretary of State. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 30, 2014. Retrieved December 31, 2014.

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