Gordon Paquette Democratic Gordon Paquette Democratic The 1979 Burlington mayoral election was held on 6 March 1979 in order to elect the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

Incumbent Democratic Mayor Gordon Paquette was easily re-elected to a fifth term.

[2][3][4][5][6] Terence O'Brien, a member of the city council from the 4th ward, considered running against Paquette, but resigned on December 11, 1978, and accepted a job in Virginia.

[7] Paquette announced that he would seek reelection on January 26, 1979,[8] and received the Democratic nomination on February 2.

[10] Carol Brown launched a write-in campaign on February 28, in response to the Republicans not fielding a candidate.