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A 14-year-old kid has now qualified to appear on the general election ballot for Governor of Vermont this November.
Dean Roy, a freshman at Stowe High School who also works part-time at his parents’ pizza shop and served as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse last year, has become the first teenager under 18 to qualify for the state’s general election ballot for governor.
He did it by founding his own third-party outfit called the Freedom and Unity Party.
“I know it sounds crazy, a 14-year-old running for governor,” Roy said in a video posted to Instagram. “But honestly, look at the people in charge right now. They’ve been doing this forever and things still aren’t working.”
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend this morning, Roy laid out a no-nonsense platform.
“Yeah, so the platform that I’m running on mainly focuses on housing, energy, healthcare, and education.
For housing, it mainly revolves around deregulating with regard to Act 250 and increasing taxes on short-term rentals, which are a very prominent problem in Vermont.
For energy, it’s nuclear power. If we were to reopen a nuclear power plant, we would secure energy independence.
And for education and healthcare, it’s auditing those systems, which are very inefficient in Vermont, and making sure that we get them to be efficient once again—and that they’re at a standard where Vermonters can both afford them and lower their tax bill.”
WATCH:
A 14-year-old kid is running for Governor of Vermont and will appear on the general election ballot.
Dean Roy: “The platform I’m running on mainly focuses on housing, energy, healthcare, and education.”
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— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 12, 2026
People reported:
Roy’s platform focuses on affordability and smaller government in Vermont. He promises to lower taxes for families and small businesses, implement housing reform and reject incumbent Vermont Gov. Phil Scott’s EV mandate, a policy to slash greenhouse emissions by requiring that 35% of vehicles delivered to car dealers in Vermont be zero emission; Scott paused the mandate in May.
Roy also promises “no new restrictions of any kind on guns, construction, or farming” in his platform, and emphasizes his focus on residents’ “personal freedoms.”
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Roy said in an interview with the Stowe Reporter in July that isn’t expecting to beat out Gov. Scott in the election, and understands critics who say he’s not old enough to run the state. Still, he’s running his campaign as a way to launch his career in politics and introduce himself to voters.
While speaking to ABC News, Roy said if he did win, he would not drop out of school, but would enroll in online studies, saying, “It’d be hard, but I can do it.”
His friend, Charlie Bass, is also running for Lieutenant Governor of the State of Vermont.
Vermont’s constitution has no minimum age requirement for governor – only a four-year residency rule that Roy easily meets. Most states demand you be 30 or older. While the establishment wrings its hands and questions if a 14-year-old is “ready,” Roy is proving that real leadership isn’t about age, it’s about results. The current crop of politicians sure hasn’t delivered any.
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