In 2022, Republican Phil Scott won Vermont's gubernatorial race by 47 points while Democrat Peter Welch won the Vermont Senate race by 40 points.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
Judged against certified November 2022 Vermont general election results. True if Phil Scott (R) won the governor's race by a margin rounding to 47 percentage points (46.5–47.4 points) and Peter Welch (D) won the U.S. Senate race by a margin rounding to 40 points (39.5–40.4), or both are within 1 point of the stated figures. Mostly true if both winners and parties are correct and each margin is within 2 points of the stated figure. Mixed if one margin is accurate and the other off by more than 2 points. Mostly false if both winners are right but both margins are off by more than 2 points. False if either winner or party is wrong.
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Evidence (3)
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E1 2022 Vermont gubernatorial election - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“Scott's 47-point victory margin was the largest for a Republican candidate since 1950, even while Democratic congressman Peter Welch won the concurrent U.S. Senate election by a 40-point margin.”
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E2 2022 Vermont gubernatorial election - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“Republican | Phil Scott (incumbent) | 202,147 | 70.91% | +0.75”
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E3 2022 Vermont gubernatorial election - Wikipedia Wikipedia
“Democratic/Progressive | Brenda Siegel[f] | 68,248 | 23.94%”
Reasoning
The gubernatorial results table gives Phil Scott (R) 70.91% (E2) and Brenda Siegel (D/P) 23.94% (E3). That is a margin of about 46.97 points, which rounds to 47. The same independent article says Democrat Peter Welch won the concurrent U.S. Senate race by a 40-point margin (E1). No Senate vote totals were provided, but the stated margin matches the claim, so both winners, both parties and both margins are consistent with the claim.
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Nate Silver, “In 2022, Republican Phil Scott won Vermont's gubernatorial race by 47 points while Democrat Peter Welch won the Vermont Senate race by 40 points.” (said 23 October 2026). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_77bd31b7cbb9, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_77bd31b7cbb9
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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