The 1826 Vermont gubernatorial election took place in September and October, and resulted in the election of

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to a one-year term as governor. The

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met in Montpelier on October 12. The

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appointed a committee to review the votes of the freemen of Vermont for governor,

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, and members of the governor's council. The committee determined that

had won a one-year term. In the election for lieutenant governor, the committee determined that Democratic-Republican

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had won election to a fifth one-year term. Newspapers of the time reported the vote totals as: Leland, 7,749 (61.9%);

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, 4,331 (34.7%); Scattering, 431 (3.4%).

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had no opposition for election to a one-year term as treasurer, his twenty-seventh. Though he had nominally been a

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, Swan was usually endorsed by the Democratic-Republicans and even after the demise of the Federalist Party he was frequently unopposed. The vote totals in the governor's race were reported as follows:

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