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Peter Welch

U.S. Senator · VT

Voted Yea 7,736 · Nay 4,293 across 12,373 recorded votes.

Where their votes land

Democratic side0 · Voted with Democrats almost every timeRepublican side
  • Average Senate Democrat: 2
  • Average Senate Republican: 97

Overall, averaged across 11 values of hand-picked votes that split the parties.

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Where their votes land

Each scale runs between the two parties. The left end is the side most Democrats took on a set of hand-picked roll-call votes, the right end the side most Republicans took, and Peter Welch's marker sits at the share of those votes they cast on the Republican side. Votes that most of both parties agreed on are left out, because they cannot show which side anyone was on.

Overall

average of 11 values
Democratic side0 · Voted with Democrats almost every timeRepublican side
  • Average Senate Democrat: 2
  • Average Senate Republican: 97

0 is the Democratic side of every party-split vote and 100 the Republican side of every one. This is the average of the 11 value positions below that rest on 4 or more votes, each counted once however many votes stand behind it; one value below has fewer than 4 votes and is drawn but not counted in it.

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  • Broader public coverage and lower drug prices11 of 11 with DemocratsLess federal spending and a smaller government role
  • Protecting access to abortion, contraception and IVF10 of 10 with DemocratsRestricting abortion and the funding behind it
  • Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions faster8 of 8 with DemocratsCheaper energy now and fewer federal mandates
  • Stronger federal protection for borrowers8 of 8 with DemocratsLighter regulation of banks and lenders
  • Immigration

    8 of 8 votes
    More legal protection and processing capacity8 of 8 with DemocratsStricter enforcement and less federal benefit access
  • Stronger limits on pollution and development6 of 6 with DemocratsFewer federal restrictions on land and industry
  • Broader federal anti-discrimination protection5 of 5 with DemocratsNarrower federal rules, more left to states

    Did not vote on one further party-split vote on this value, which is not counted either way.

  • Guns

    5 of 5 votes
    Tighter limits on firearms5 of 5 with DemocratsFewer restrictions on lawful gun owners
  • Stronger bargaining rights and higher wage floors5 of 5 with DemocratsMore employer flexibility and lower labour costs
  • Higher taxes at the top and stronger collection4 of 4 with DemocratsLower rates and a smaller tax administration
  • Wider access to the ballot4 of 4 with DemocratsTighter eligibility and identity checks

    Did not vote on one further party-split vote on this value, which is not counted either way.

  • War powers

    3 of 3 votes
    Requiring Congress to authorise military force3 of 3 with DemocratsLeaving the deployment decision with the President

    Only 3 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

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Positions count only the votes this person cast, so two people can be placed on different numbers of votes — the count beside each value says how many. How the votes were chosen, and how each party's side is counted.

Where the money came from

Receipts into Peter Welch’s own campaign committee over the 2025–2026 election cycle, through June 30, 2026.

  • Small individual donors$4,429
  • Large individual donors$67,307
  • PACs$36,500
  • Other and unclassified$110,454
  • Total receipts$218,690
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What these categories mean
Small individual donors
People whose giving stayed under $200 in total. The FEC does not require them to be named, so who they are is genuinely unknown — not merely unlisted.
Large individual donors
People whose giving passed $200, which is the point at which the campaign must report their name, employer and occupation.
PACs
Political action committees — corporate, trade, union and ideological. Money from an organisation rather than from a person.
Other and unclassified
The remainder once every category above is accounted for: federal funds, offsets, interest, and anything this site could not classify. It is a residual, not a kind of donor.

This is money the campaign itself received. It is not everything spent to win the seat. It excludes leadership PACs, and it excludes independent expenditures and other outside spending — money spent to elect or defeat a candidate by groups they may not lawfully coordinate with, which in a contested race can exceed everything shown above. It is not personal income or net worth, which are a separate filing altogether. Figures are as filed with the Federal Election Commission and are only as current as the last report, covering through June 30, 2026; a cycle still running is a partial count. Check this filing on fec.gov.

Personal finances

Separately from the campaign money above, Peter Welch files a report about their own money: what they own, what they owe, what they earn outside Congress, and every stock trade they make. The law requires it, and every figure in it is a range rather than an amount — which is why the columns below are ranges too.

What they report owning, and owing
  • Reported assets$6.9M to $19M140 lines, 27 with no figure
  • Reported debts$50k to $100k1 line

Every column is read from $0. The solid height is the total of the low ends of the bands the filer ticked; the pale cap runs on to the total of the high ends, and is the range the form allows — not a margin of error and not a guess. Assets less debts comes to $6.8M to $19M — a range, and not a net worth: the form does not ask about a personal residence that earns nothing, about congressional salary, or about the exact value of anything.

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What the holdings are
  • Funds and managed accounts115 holdings, 18 with no figure$5.0M to $12M
  • Bonds, cash and other securities16 holdings$1.9M to $7.0M
  • Retirement, pensions and insurance8 holdings, 8 with no figure—
  • Trusts1 holding, 1 with no figure—
  • Every group$6.9M to $19M

A slice needs one number and a filer ticks a range, so each arc is its group’s floor — the total of the low ends they ticked — and the figure in the hole is the total of those floors. The band printed beside each group is the real answer, and it is wider than the arc. 27 holdings carry no figure at all and are in no arc.

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From Peter Welch’s own financial disclosure, filed under the Ethics in Government Act. Every figure is the band the filer ticked.

Government experience

ChamberState / DistrictPartyYears
SenateVTDemocrat2023–2029
HouseVTDemocrat2021–2023
HouseVTDemocrat2019–2021
HouseVTDemocrat2017–2019
HouseVTDemocrat2015–2017
HouseVTDemocrat2013–2015
HouseVTDemocrat2011–2013
HouseVTDemocrat2009–2011
HouseVTDemocrat2007–2009

A district link opens that seat as the plan in force draws it. Seat numbers outlive the lines beneath them, so for an older term that is not the ground they held.

Their district

The ground Peter Welch represented, and what was measured on it while they held it. A seat listed twice is a seat whose boundaries were redrawn: the entries describe different areas, not the same area twice.

VT-AL 111th–116th Congress · 2009–2023

Every indicator and period for VT-AL

Figures are the most recent published for each indicator in a period that ended while they held the seat — a figure published after they left describes their successor’s district. Allocated figures are built from the counties overlapping the district and carry the share of its residents the reporting sources covered. These are conditions in the district, not a record of the member. Nothing here is evidence that they caused any of it, or that a different representative would have produced different numbers.

Voting record