2022 Vermont Secretary of State election
The 2022 Vermont Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Secretary of State of Vermont. Incumbent Democratic secretary Jim Condos declined to seek re-election to a seventh term in office.
Primary elections were held on August 9, 2022. Democratic state representative Sarah Copeland Hanzas narrowly won the Democratic primary against Deputy Secretary of State Chris Winters, and H. Brooke Paige won the Republican primary only facing token write-in opposition. Hanzas comfortably won the general election.
Democratic primary
Candidates
Nominee
- Sarah Copeland Hanzas, state representative from Orange-2 since 2005
Eliminated in primary
- John Odum, Montpelier city clerk
- Chris Winters, deputy secretary of state and former Berlin school board member
Republican primary
Candidates
Nominee
- H. Brooke Paige, perennial candidate, nominee for Secretary of State and Attorney General in 2020 and nominee for Secretary of State in 2018
Declined
- Dustin Degree, deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor, former state senator and former state representative