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Bruce Busa
Bruce Busa (Republican Party) ran for election to the Vermont State Senate to represent Bennington District. He did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 5, 2024.
Busa also ran for election to the Vermont House of Representatives to represent Bennington-1 District. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Elections
2024
Vermont House of Representatives
General election
General election for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District
Jonathan Cooper defeated Bruce Busa in the general election for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jonathan Cooper (D) | 50.5 | 1,265 |
 | Bruce Busa (R) | 49.5 | 1,242 | |
| Total votes: 2,507 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District
Jonathan Cooper advanced from the Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jonathan Cooper | 100.0 | 255 |
| Total votes: 255 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District
Bruce Busa advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bruce Busa (Write-in) | 77.0 | 67 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 23.0 | 20 | ||
| Total votes: 87 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Busa in this election.
Vermont State Senate
General election
General election for Vermont State Senate Bennington District (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Vermont State Senate Bennington District on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Seth Bongartz (D) | 27.3 | 10,053 |
| ✔ |  | Robert Plunkett (D) | 24.9 | 9,160 |
| Joe Gervais (R) | 23.5 | 8,647 | ||
| Lawrence Whitmire (Independent) | 9.6 | 3,539 | ||
 | Cynthia Browning (Independent) | 7.8 | 2,867 | |
 | Steve Berry (Independent) | 6.7 | 2,459 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 60 | ||
| Total votes: 36,785 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Bruce Busa (R)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Bennington District (2 seats)
Seth Bongartz and Robert Plunkett defeated incumbent Richard Sears (Unofficially withdrew) in the Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Bennington District on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Seth Bongartz | 49.0 | 2,641 |
| ✔ | | Robert Plunkett (Write-in) | 30.0 | 1,616 |
 | Richard Sears (Unofficially withdrew) | 15.5 | 837 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 5.5 | 294 | ||
| Total votes: 5,388 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Bennington District (2 seats)
Joe Gervais and Bruce Busa advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont State Senate Bennington District on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Joe Gervais | 83.8 | 1,036 | |
| ✔ | | Bruce Busa (Write-in) | 6.8 | 84 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 9.4 | 116 | ||
| Total votes: 1,236 | |||
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Endorsements
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2022
See also: Vermont House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District
Incumbent Nelson Brownell defeated Bruce Busa in the general election for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Nelson Brownell (D) | 50.4 | 974 | |
| Bruce Busa (R) | 49.0 | 948 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 12 | ||
| Total votes: 1,934 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District
Incumbent Nelson Brownell advanced from the Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Nelson Brownell | 95.7 | 379 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 4.3 | 17 | ||
| Total votes: 396 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District
Bruce Busa advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Bennington 1 District on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bruce Busa (Write-in) | 68.7 | 68 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 31.3 | 31 | ||
| Total votes: 99 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Vermont
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. Senate Vermont on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bernie Sanders (Independent) | 67.4 | 183,649 |
 | Lawrence Zupan (R) | 27.4 | 74,815 | |
 | Brad Peacock (Independent) | 1.3 | 3,665 | |
 | Russell Beste (Independent) | 1.0 | 2,763 | |
 | Edward Gilbert Jr. (Independent) | 0.8 | 2,244 | |
 | Folasade Adeluola (Independent) | 0.7 | 1,979 | |
| Reid Kane (Liberty Union Party) | 0.4 | 1,171 | ||
 | Jon Svitavsky (Independent) | 0.4 | 1,130 | |
| Bruce Busa (Independent) | 0.3 | 914 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 294 | ||
| Total votes: 272,624 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Bernie Sanders (D)
- H. Brooke Paige (R)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Vermont
Incumbent Bernie Sanders defeated Folasade Adeluola in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Vermont on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bernie Sanders | 94.0 | 63,683 |
| Folasade Adeluola | 5.6 | 3,766 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 281 | ||
| Total votes: 67,730 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Vermont
H. Brooke Paige defeated Lawrence Zupan, Jasdeep Pannu, and Roque De La Fuente in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Vermont on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | H. Brooke Paige | 37.5 | 9,805 |
| Lawrence Zupan | 35.9 | 9,383 | |
 | Jasdeep Pannu | 17.3 | 4,527 | |
 | Roque De La Fuente | 4.0 | 1,057 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 5.3 | 1,395 | ||
| Total votes: 26,167 | |||
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Independent primary election
No Independent candidates ran in the primary.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Cris Ericson (Independent)
Campaign themes
2024
Vermont House of Representatives
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Bruce Busa did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Vermont State Senate
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Bruce Busa did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Bruce Busa did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
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