2026 NH House General Election

The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the counterpart to the New Hampshire Senate in the NH Legislature. The House has 400 members across 204 voting districts, elected every two years. Following the September 8, 2026 primary, candidates from both parties faced off in the November 3, 2026 general election.

See the results of the 2026 midterm elections below.

Voting Date:

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Results

NH House Belknap 01
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Amber Schaefer	Democrat	52%	Won!
Tom Ploszaj (incumbent)	Republican	48%

NH House Belknap 02
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Seth Wheeler	Democrat	27%	Won!
Matthew Coker (incumbent)	Republican	26%	Won!
Dean S.T. Cascadden	Democrat	24%
Scott Wallace	Republican	24%

NH House Belknap 03
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
William Lawrence, Jr.	Democrat	51%	Won!
Steven Bunce	Republican	49%

NH House Belknap 04
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Kevin M. Nugent, Jr.	Republican	54%	Won!
Liz Charlwood	Democrat	46%

NH House Belknap 05
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Mike Bordes (incumbent)	Republican	14%	Won!
Marcia Hayward	Democrat	13%	Won!
Denise Riley	Democrat	13%	Won!
Eric Hoffman	Democrat	12%	Won!
Lois A. Kessin	Democrat	12%
Timothy Minor	Republican	12%
Cody Pfaff	Republican	12%
Paul Rossi	Republican	12%

NH House Belknap 06
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Bob McLean	Democrat	13%	Won!
David Nagel (incumbent)	Democrat	13%	Won!
Lisa Rivard	Democrat	13%	Won!
Jade Wood	Republican	13%	Won!
Glen Aldrich (incumbent)	Republican	12%
Priscilla M. Bean	Republican	12%
Allan Frank	Democrat	12%
Colleen M. Harkey	Republican	12%

NH House Belknap 07
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Peter R. Varney (incumbent)	Republican	20%	Won!
Barbara Comtois (incumbent)	Republican	19%	Won!
Paul A. Terry (incumbent)	Republican	18%	Won!
Laura Dunham	Democrat	15%
Nancy Mitchell	Democrat	15%
Stephen Copithorne	Democrat	14%

NH House Belknap 08
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Lisa M. Freeman (incumbent)	Republican	26%	Won!
Cameron Thompson	Republican	26%	Won!
Donald J. Giguere	Democrat	24%
Don House	Democrat	24%

NH House Carroll 01
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Benjamin Colbath	Democrat	22%	Won!
David Paige (incumbent)	Democrat	21%	Won!
Ellin M. Leonard	Democrat	19%	Won!
Karen C. Umberger	Republican	14%
Robert W. Nelson	Republican	13%
Gregory T. Corrigan	Republican	11%

NH House Carroll 02
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Anita Burroughs (incumbent)	Democrat	34%	Won!
Adam Heard	Democrat	32%	Won!
Jennifer LePla	Republican	17%
Erlon Jones	Republican	16%

NH House Carroll 03
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Karel A. Crawford (incumbent)	Republican	25%	Won!
Todd Milliken	Democrat	25%	Won!
Richard R. Brown	Republican	25%
Bryan Randolph	Democrat	25%

NH House Carroll 04
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Lino M. Avellani (incumbent)	Republican	35%	Won!
Mike Belcher (incumbent)	Republican	35%	Won!
Annie Gehring	Democrat	30%

NH House Carroll 05
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Steven Brown	Republican	41%	Won!
Morgan Bultman	Democrat	39%

NH House Carroll 06
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
John T. MacDonald (incumbent)	Republican	28%	Won!
Deirdre McEachern	Democrat	25%	Won!
Tim Bauman	Republican	24%
Phoebe VanScoy-Giessler	Democrat	23%

NH House Carroll 07
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Dale Fincher	Republican	53%	Won!
Karen Burnett-Kurie	Democrat	47%

NH House Carroll 08
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Colin Mitchell	Republican	27%	Won!
George Randell	Independent/Other	25%	Won!
Tammy Simmons Garthwaite	Republican	25%
James Pittman	Democrat	23%

NH House Cheshire 01
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Dylan Germana	Democrat	78%	Won!
Timothy J. Donovan	Republican	22%

NH House Cheshire 02
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Dru Fox (incumbent)	Democrat	98%	Won!

NH House Cheshire 03
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Philip Jones (incumbent)	Democrat	76%	Won!
Marissa W. Salisbury	Republican	23%

NH House Cheshire 04
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Jodi Newell (incumbent)	Democrat	72%	Won!
Robert Johnson	Republican	27%

NH House Cheshire 05
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Lucy McVitty Weber (incumbent)	Democrat	65%	Won!
William J. Sommer	Republican	35%

NH House Cheshire 06
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Cathryn A. Harvey (incumbent)	Democrat	31%	Won!
Paul Berch (incumbent)	Democrat	30%	Won!
Sean Graves	Republican	21%
Zachary Nutting	Republican	19%

NH House Cheshire 07
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Teresa "Terri" O'Rorke (incumbent)	Democrat	77%	Won!
Jonathan Liptak	Republican	23%

NH House Cheshire 08
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Christine L. Parshall	Democrat	98%	Won!

NH House Cheshire 09
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
James Gruber	Democrat	57%	Won!
Richard M. Nalevanko (incumbent)	Republican	43%

NH House Cheshire 10
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Alan Gross	Democrat	27%	Won!
Steve Russell	Democrat	27%	Won!
Sly Karasinski (incumbent)	Republican	24%
Michael R. York	Republican	22%

NH House Cheshire 11
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Lindseigh Picard	Democrat	53%	Won!
Denis Vincent Murphy, II (incumbent)	Republican	47%

NH House Cheshire 12
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Kristan Tilton	Democrat	52%	Won!
Richard "Dick" Thackston III (incumbent)	Republican	47%

NH House Cheshire 13
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Tom Ahlborn-Hsu	Democrat	59%	Won!
Matthew John Santonastaso	Republican	41%

NH House Cheshire 14
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
John B. Hunt	Republican	60%	Won!
Gene Andersen	Democrat	40%

NH House Cheshire 15
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Samantha Jacobs (incumbent)	Democrat	35%	Won!
Nicholas Germana (incumbent)	Democrat	34%	Won!
Becky Shields	Republican	16%
Matthew Roach	Republican	15%

NH House Cheshire 16
Name	Party	% Vote	Result
Lucius Parshall	Democrat	66%	Won!

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