Federal candidate · 2021–2022 cycle · past cycle

Peter Welch

Official portrait of Peter Welch
Official portrait, U.S. Congress
Office
U.S. senator from Vermont (class 3)
Party
Democrat
Born
1947
In Congress
House since 2007 · Senate since 2023 · 19 years in office
Current term
January 3, 2023 to January 3, 2029
FEC filing name
WELCH, PETER
Next election
Primary August 9, 2022 · General November 8, 2022 (Wikipedia, checked October 23, 2026; confirm with your state election office)
Map of Vermont with the whole state highlighted

Vermont

Biographical details from congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

DemocraticU.S. Senate · VermontOpen seatWon the general election (68.47%)

FEC candidate ID S2VT00235 · Principal campaign committee: WELCH FOR VERMONT

CycleOfficeRaisedOutcome
2025–2026U.S. Senate · Vermont$248,839.28Not up for election in 2026; seat is next up in 2028
2021–2022U.S. Senate · Vermont$5,390,836.54Won the general election (68.47%)
Total raised$5,390,836.54
Total spent$3,431,166.48
Cash on hand$1,959,670.06
Debts owed by the campaign$0.00
Loans from the candidate$0.00

2021–2022 cycle totals through December 31, 2022, from the FEC’s candidate summary file. This is a dated snapshot, not live reporting; the FEC’s page for this candidate is the official source.

Where the money comes from

Individual contributions: $2,134,173.57PACs and other committees: $951,042.67Party committees: $52,833.32Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees: $2,233,885.07Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest): $18,901.91
  • Individual contributions$2,134,173.5740%
  • PACs and other committees$951,042.6718%
  • Party committees$52,833.321%
  • Transfers from joint fundraising and the candidate’s other committees$2,233,885.0741%
  • Other receipts (loans from others, refunds, interest)$18,901.910%

Raised and spent over time

Report-by-report history is shown for the current cycle.

Committees

Assignments from unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), retrieved October 23, 2026.

PAC and committee contributors

196 committees reported giving $931,878.00 to this candidate, as filed by the giving committees through October 18, 2026. Timing differs from the campaign’s own reports, so this list may not match the totals above.

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Outside spending

  • Independent expenditures supporting Peter Welch$1,510.00
  • Independent expenditures opposing Peter Welch$0.00

FEC totals for the 2022 cycle, including groups that are not political committees, retrieved October 24, 2026.

Independent expenditures by committees that are not part of the campaign, as reported by those committees. This money is spent separately, not given to the candidate.

The race

Vermont U.S. Senate, 2022 · 10 registered candidates

CandidateRaisedCash on handThrough
Peter Welch (D)$5,390,836.54$1,959,670.062022-12-31
Brock Pierce (I)$1,634,191.71$0.002022-12-31
Patrick J Leahy (D)$1,003,210.99$1,311,639.612022-12-31
Christina Nolan (R)$405,146.04$0.002022-11-22
Gerald Malloy (R)$397,262.11$861.272022-12-31
Myers Mermel (R)$154,785.00−$4,638.302022-12-31
Isaac Evans-Frantz (D)$123,835.03$18,073.572022-12-31
Alexandra Nicole Thran (D)$28,416.26$143.422022-12-31
C. Mark Coester (AIP)$11,471.38$2,082.002022-12-31

Polling and ratings

Race ratings

Recent polls

PollsterDatesSampleMargin of errorResults
Data for Progress (D)October 21–26, 20221,039 (LV)± 3.0%Peter Welch 63% · Gerald Malloy 32%
University of New HampshireSeptember 29 – October 3, 2022765 (LV)± 3.5%Peter Welch 62% · Gerald Malloy 28%
The Trafalgar Group (R)September 3–7, 20221,072 (LV)± 2.9%Peter Welch 50% · Gerald Malloy 43%
University of New HampshireApril 14–18, 2022583 (LV)± 4.1%Peter Welch 62% · Christina Nolan 27%
VPR/Vermont PBSSeptember 3–15, 2020582 (LV)± 4.0%Patrick Leahy 38% · Phil Scott 41%

Ratings and polls as listed on Wikipedia: 2022 United States Senate election in Vermont (retrieved October 23, 2026), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. TerraCivic does not rate races or compute its own average.

Sources and updates

  • Money: FEC bulk data (candidate summary, committee master, committee-to-candidate contributions), retrieved October 23, 2026. FEC candidate page · Principal campaign committee: WELCH FOR VERMONT.
  • Polling, ratings and candidate status: Wikipedia, retrieved October 23, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • Status shown above comes from the race’s Wikipedia page.

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