Tanya Vyhovsky
2023 - Present
2025
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Tanya Vyhovsky (Vermont Progressive Party) is a member of the Vermont State Senate, representing Chittenden Central District. She assumed office on January 4, 2023. Her current term ends on January 8, 2025.
Vyhovsky (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the Vermont State Senate to represent Chittenden Central District. She is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on August 13, 2024.[source]
Biography
Tanya Vyhovsky graduated from Essex High School. Vyhovsky earned a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University in 2009 and a master’s degree from the University of Vermont in 2017. Her career experience includes working as a social worker and as a research fellow at the Northeastern Vermont Area Health Education Center. Vyhovsky served as a developer and program director of the Vermont Support Line and as the Vermont Chapter vice president of the National Association of Social Work.[1]
Committee assignments
2023-2024
Vyhovsky was assigned to the following committees:
2021-2022
Vyhovsky was assigned to the following committees:
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2024
See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2024
General election
The primary will occur on August 13, 2024. The general election will occur on November 5, 2024. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Central District (3 seats)
Incumbent Philip Baruth, incumbent Martine Gulick, incumbent Tanya Vyhovsky, and Stewart Ledbetter are running in the Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Central District on August 13, 2024.
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2022
See also: Vermont State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Central District (3 seats)
Incumbent Philip Baruth, Martine Gulick, and Tanya Vyhovsky defeated Infinite Culcleasure in the general election for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Central District on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Philip Baruth (D / Vermont Progressive Party) | 32.0 | 15,189 |
| ✔ |  | Martine Gulick (D) | 29.5 | 14,007 |
| ✔ |  | Tanya Vyhovsky (Vermont Progressive Party / D) | 26.1 | 12,378 |
 | Infinite Culcleasure (Independent) | 11.2 | 5,327 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.3 | 600 | ||
| Total votes: 47,501 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Central District (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Vermont State Senate Chittenden Central District on August 9, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Philip Baruth | 23.7 | 5,710 |
| ✔ | | Tanya Vyhovsky | 21.3 | 5,140 |
| ✔ | | Martine Gulick | 16.4 | 3,949 |
| Erhard Mahnke | 16.4 | 3,947 | |
 | Dawn Ellis | 13.8 | 3,329 | |
| Andrew Brown (Unofficially withdrew) | 8.1 | 1,941 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 70 | ||
| Total votes: 24,086 | |||
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2020
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See also: Vermont House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) (2 seats)
Incumbent Marybeth Redmond and Tanya Vyhovsky defeated Thomas Nelson, Maryse Dunbar, and Varpilah Chase in the general election for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Marybeth Redmond (D) | 34.2 | 3,234 |
| ✔ | | Tanya Vyhovsky (Vermont Progressive Party / D) | 24.0 | 2,273 |
 | Thomas Nelson (R) | 19.5 | 1,840 | |
| Maryse Dunbar (R) | 19.0 | 1,793 | |
 | Varpilah Chase (L) | 3.2 | 302 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 17 | ||
| Total votes: 9,459 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) (2 seats)
Incumbent Marybeth Redmond and Tanya Vyhovsky defeated Brian Shelden in the Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) on August 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marybeth Redmond | 48.6 | 1,359 |
| ✔ | | Tanya Vyhovsky | 27.2 | 762 |
 | Brian Shelden | 23.8 | 666 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 11 | ||
| Total votes: 2,798 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) (2 seats)
Maryse Dunbar and Thomas Nelson advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) on August 11, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Maryse Dunbar | 49.6 | 601 |
| ✔ | | Thomas Nelson | 48.8 | 591 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.6 | 19 | ||
| Total votes: 1,211 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) (2 seats)
Marybeth Redmond and incumbent Linda Myers defeated Tanya Vyhovsky in the general election for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marybeth Redmond (D) | 40.8 | 2,485 |
| ✔ |  | Linda Myers (R) | 32.7 | 1,994 |
| Tanya Vyhovsky (Vermont Progressive Party / D) | 26.3 | 1,600 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 14 | ||
| Total votes: 6,093 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) (2 seats)
Marybeth Redmond advanced from the Democratic primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Marybeth Redmond | 100.0 | 632 |
| Total votes: 632 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) (2 seats)
Incumbent Linda Myers advanced from the Republican primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Linda Myers | 100.0 | 314 |
| Total votes: 314 | |||
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Vermont Progressive Party primary election
Vermont Progressive Party primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) (2 seats)
Tanya Vyhovsky advanced from the Vermont Progressive Party primary for Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) on August 14, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tanya Vyhovsky | 100.0 | 496 |
| Total votes: 496 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
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2022
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2020
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Tanya is a 2003 graduate of Essex High School with a BS from Northeastern University and Masters from the University of Vermont. Tanya is a social worker and long time community organizer. She owns a small counseling practice in Essex where she works with youth and young adults from her community seeing daily the struggles of Vermonters due to broken and failing systems. Tanya has worked to fight for healthcare as a human right, fair and livable wages, paid family medical leave, climate justice, racial justice and campaign finance reform among many causes at the local, state and federal levels. Tanya has worked in conjunction with state government to develop a novel support service for Vermonters under the Mental Health Transformation Grant, this service has saved the state millions and the lives of Vermonters. In response to COVID-19 Tanya organized Essex Mutual Aid to ensure her community's needs were met. In 2018 Tanya first ran for office because she felt the need to fight for systems that lifted us all up and build a Vermont where all of our voices were heard and we all could thrive.
- We will only make transformative change that works for all when all of our voices are at the table: particularly those who are historically underrepresented.
- We need systems that lift us all up and allow us all to thrive. We all do better when we all do better.
- COVID-19 has given us a real opportunity to rebuild an economic system that is based in justice and sustainability.
My platform is build on three pillars:
Economic Justice: fair and livable wages, fair taxation, paid family and medical leave, publicly funded education from pre-k to post secondary, single payer healthcare.
Social Justice: Comprehensive criminal justice reform. closing the racial and gender wage gaps, revitalizing democracy and making voting more accessible and transparent, campaign finance reform.
Environmental Justice: Building a comprehensive just and sustainable economy with green job development, ending subsidy to fossil fuel infrastructure, investing in local sustainable economies
The person I look up to is Senator Bernie Sanders. The way in which he has tirelessly fought for those who do not have a seat at the table even when it was at a detriment to his movement up the ladder is an inspiration to me. He has inspired a movement of young people and people who have been silenced in our society to fight for a system that works for us all. I hope to be this kind of leader and it has been the honor of a lifetime to be part of his movement for justice.
Our Revolution, Senator Bernie Sanders
Republic Lost, Lawrence Lessig
The Deficit Myth, Stephanie Kelton
We need people who listen and collaborate to build transformative policy for the people. We need bold, brave leadership that will fight for the people.
To represent the people that are elected to represent and fight for justice.
I remember when I was 5 watching images from Dessert Storm.
My first job was as a hostess at a local restaurant. I worked her from when I was 14 to when I was 17 as a way to pay for college classes that my mother could not afford.
Catcher in the Rye, this book spoke to me as a teenager who was struggling to fit in and felt that nobody could possibly know the many struggles we were facing. There is an immense amount of pressure to always be fine and this is damaging and ultimately led me to social work to support people to accept that we do not always have to be ok especially when we do not have our needs met.
I grew up in a single parent, working class home and we did not always have everything we needed. I went to college because of my academic achievement and graduated with a huge amount of student loan debt and found it impossible to afford returning home to my community. I was able to stop commuting and returned to my community in 2014 to live and work but my family has had to ask ourselves if we could afford to stay here and if we were truly welcome here. I chose to run in 2018 and again now for all of the people who have similarly felt left behind by our systems and who have struggled to thrive here.
The size is a key difference in the chambers in Vermont. We have 150 State Representatives and 30 State Senators and this difference creates a different way of working together.
I think that it is important to have an understanding for how policy works which can be provided and taught. I think it is more important that we have diverse voices that have experienced the impact of policies to help craft policy that will on the ground help people who are struggling.
We have an aging population and shrinking tax base as well as serious affordability issues. It is estimated that 60% of Vermonters cannot afford a $500 unexpected expense and with the COVID crisis we will have even more struggles to overcome.
The ideal relationship should be one of collaboration and team work.
Yes, as a social worker I know the power of relationships is very important. When we have strong relationships we are better able to hear openly different view points and craft transformative policy that no one of us could have imagined on our own.
Non-partisan, non-governmental third party committee made up of local stakeholders.
Health Care
Human Services
Criminal Justice
Senator Bernie Sanders
I am not sure. Right now I am focused on this race and doing the best I can for my constituents if elected.
I have heard many stories about people struggling to get by and many people who are unsure if they can afford to stay here and this is also my story. Every story is meaningful and important and needs to be lifted up and heard.
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2023
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2022
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2021
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
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| Preceded by - |
Vermont State Senate Chittenden Central District 2023-Present |
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| Preceded by Linda Myers (R) |
Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden 8-1 District (Historical) 2021-2023 |
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