1996Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
1996 election for Vermont House District Y-5
Vermont House of Representatives · Vermont
Bill Suchmann (R) won with 53.8% of the vote, defeating Aili R. Farrar (D) by 7.7 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Bill SuchmannRepublican · winner
53.8%1,130
Aili R. FarrarDemocrat · incumbent
46.2%969
2,099 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1996
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET