Vermont was one of only six states (the other five states being Connecticut, Delaware, neighboring New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania), four of them in New England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression.

Vermont would ultimately be one of only two states (along with nearby Maine) that would reject FDR in all four of his presidential campaigns.

In terms of both vote share and margin, Vermont was the most Republican state in the nation.

Hoover carried eleven of the state's 14 counties, breaking sixty percent in seven.

All three counties would remain loyally Democratic in the elections that followed until Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Republican landslide of 1952.