Progressive Democrat Becca Balint was elected to succeed Welch in the House for the 118th Congress.

Independent Bernie Sanders defeated incumbent Republican Peter Plympton Smith.

Vermont Senate President Pro Tempore Peter Welch (D-Windsor County) was the Democratic nominee and the eventual winner.

[4] On October 4, 2006, The Burlington Free Press reported that one of Rainville's staffers, Christopher Stewart, resigned from her campaign after committing plagiarism—copying policy statements from other politicians, including senator Hillary Clinton, and using them on Rainville's website.

Rainville's website was off-line for some time while her staff removed the plagiarized passages.