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Concord-Ward 8, Merrimack County, NH

WARD 8 - Bektash Temple
189 Pembroke Rd
Concord, NH 03301

WARD 8 - Bektash Temple
189 Pembroke Rd
Concord, NH 03301
United States

7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Janice L Bonenfant
41 Green St
Concord, NH 03301

41 Green St
Concord, NH 03301
United States

Phone:
225-8500
Fax:
225-8592

2024 Presidential Election

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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris    
Democrat

Vice President of the United States (2021 - present); Senator, U.S. Senate (2016 - 2020); Attorney General, California (2010 - 2016)

Kamala Harris is the current Vice President of the United States. When President Biden announced he was dropping out of the 2024 race, he threw his support behind Harris. She said in a statement, "I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic Party and unite our nation to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme Project 2025 agenda."

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  (dropped out) 
Independent/Other

Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council (1986 - 2017); founder, Waterkeeper Alliance; founder, Children's Health Defense; anti-vaccine activist; author

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spent most of his career working as an environmental lawyer. In recent years he has dedicated his energy to anti-vaccine campaigns. After starting his campaign as a Democrat, in October 2023 Kennedy announced an independent/third-party run for president. In August 2024, Kennedy announced he was suspending his campaign and supporting Donald Trump.

Chase Oliver
Chase Oliver    
Libertarian

Candidate, U.S. Senator from Georgia (2020); restaurant business

Chase Oliver gained national attention when his U.S. Senate campaign gave him the opportunity to debate Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock. That race ended with a run-off between Warnock and his Republican challenger, which is one reason why Oliver supports ranked-choice voting. He also has a solution to the student debt crisis: make all current loans interest-free and end all future government-guaranteed loans. He secured the Libertarian Party nomination for president in May 2024.

Jill Stein
Jill Stein    
Green Party

Candidate, U.S. President (2012, 2016); Candidate, Governor of Massachusetts (2002, 2010); Candidate, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2006); Candidate, Massachusetts House of Representatives (2004); Associate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (1992 - 2006); Instructor of Medicine (1982 - 2006)

Jill Stein ran for president in 2012 and 2016 as a member of the Green Party. On her 2024 campaign website she writes, "I'm running for President to offer a better choice for the people. Let's put a pro-worker, anti-war, climate emergency agenda front and center in this election and on the ballot across the country." 

Donald Trump    
Republican

U.S. President (2016 - 2020); Businessman; Television personality; Author; CEO, The Trump Organization; Chairman, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, Inc.

Shortly after the 2022 midterm election former president Donald Trump announced his third presidential campaign from Florida. Sticking with his previous campaign catchphrase, he said, "Our country was great. Our country is not great anymore." He is a formidable campaign fundraiser, but not all Republicans are as enchanted with him as they were in the past. Still, he emerged as the frontrunner, handily winning the New Hampshire Republican primary.

2024 NH Governor General Election

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Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte    
Republican

Former Senator, US Senate (2011 - 2016); NH Attorney General (2004 - 2009)

Kelly is a former murder prosecutor, New Hampshire's first female Attorney General and former United States Senator. Kelly lives in her hometown of Nashua with her husband, Joe, and son Jake. Kelly's daughter is currently a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy. Kelly has spent the past several years raising her family in Nashua, while working with companies in New Hampshire and across the country, including serving on the boards of BAE Systems Inc., New Hampshire's largest manufacturing employer, and Cirtronics, an employee-owned manufacturing company in Milford. Kelly helps several local non-profit veterans organizations, including Swim with a Mission and Veterans Count, and also serves on the school board of Saint Christopher Academy in Nashua.

Joyce Craig
Joyce Craig    
Democrat

Mayor of Manchester, NH (2017 - 2022)

Currently the mayor of Manchester, NH, Joyce Craig is the first woman to occupy the office. Now, she has set her sights on the governorship, and officially launched her campaign in July. She has served as Manchester's mayor since 2018. She is known as a strong fundraiser and defeated well-known incumbent Ted Gatsas, making her a potentially formidable candidate.

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Stephen Villee    
Libertarian

Software developer

Stephen Villee is a lesser-known candidate for governor. He met the requirements to appear on the general election ballot as an Libertarian candidate.

2024 US House General Election

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District 2

Maggie Goodlander
Maggie Goodlander    
Democrat

Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (2022 - present); Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law (2019 - 2021); Law Clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer (2017 - 2018); Law Clerk to Chief Judge Merrick Garland (2016 - 2017); Senior Advisor to Senator John McCain (2013); Speechwriter & Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Joseph Lieberman (2009 - 2012)

Maggie Goodlander is an attorney with extensive federal government experience, from working as a speech writer for the late Sen. Joe Lieberman to serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice. She is also married to Jake Sullivan, President Biden's National Security Advisor. Until recently Goodlander lived in New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District, but that does not bar her from running in the 2nd District.

Lily Tang Williams
Lily Tang Williams    
Republican
Co-chair of the New Hampshire Asian American Coalition; Supervisor of the Checklist, Town of Weare; entrepreneur

Lily Tang Williams came in third in the 2022 Republican General in District 2. A year later she announced she would run again in 2024. Williams is a native of China and a fierce critic of the Chinese Communist Party. In her campaign announcement she said, "I fear that the country I love is becoming like the country I left. That is why I am running for Congress."

2024 NH Executive Council General Election

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District 2

Karen Liot Hill
Karen Liot Hill    
Democrat

Lebanon City Councilor and Former Mayor; Grafton County Treasurer

Kim Strathdee    
Republican

Waterville Valley Resort

2024 NH Senate General Election

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District 15

Pamela M. Ean    
Republican

Public school teacher (retired); former police officer and EMT

Tara Reardon
Tara Reardon    
Democrat

Merrimack County Commissioner, current chair; retired attorney; representative, NH House of Representatives (1997 - 2009); School Board Member; At-large City Councilor

2024 NH House General Election

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Merrimack County District 22

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Dennis Blankenbeker    
Republican

Senior Project Manager, AISG (2006 - 2010); Project Manager in Information Technology

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James Leon Roesener (incumbent)  
Democrat

Representative, NH House of Representatives (2022 - present)

Merrimack County District 30 (Floterial)

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Robert C. Washburn, Sr.    
Republican

Robert C. Washburn, CPA LLC; investment advisor representative, Washburn Financial Group, LLC; Concord City councilor (10 years); Concord Planning Board member (2 years); Moderator, Member Concord City Charter Commission; Controller, NH Housing Finance Authority; Member NH Board of Accountancy (Chairman and Secretary)

Gary L. Woods    
Democrat

Orthopedic hand surgeon (39 years, retired); Representative, NH House of Representatives (2018 - 2022), served on multiple Legislative Commissions; former chair, New Hampshire Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council; Trust Fund board member, Havenwood-Heritage Heights Retirement Community; past President, NH Medical Society; American Medical Associatio; eected to Council on Science and Public Health; served on many committees for American Society for Surgery of the Hand

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