The New Hampshire presidential primary is the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections and the second party contest,the first being the Iowa caucuses,held in the United States every four years as part of the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections to be held in November. Although only a few delegates are chosen in the New Hampshire primary,its real importance comes from the massive media coverage it receives,along with the first caucus in Iowa.
Kris William Kobach is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the attorney general of Kansas since 2023. He previously served as the 31st secretary of state of Kansas from 2011 to 2019.
Colin Van Ostern is an American businessman and politician who served on the New Hampshire Executive Council from 2013 to 2017,where he represented the state's second district. He is a member of the Democratic Party,and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Hampshire in 2016. He was a candidate for a two-year term as New Hampshire Secretary of State in the New Hampshire General Court's 2018 election,which he lost to incumbent Bill Gardner. He ran in the 2024 Democratic primary to succeed Annie Kuster in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district;he was defeated by Maggie Goodlander.
Frank LaRose is an American politician who has served as the 51st Secretary of State of Ohio since January 2019. He was a Republican member of the Ohio State Senate for two terms,from January 2011 to January 2019. He was a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in the 2024 election,challenging incumbent Senator Sherrod Brown. He lost to Bernie Moreno in the primary.
The 2016 United States Senate election in New Hampshire was held November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of New Hampshire,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primary election to select the candidates who appeared on the general election ballot took place on September 13,2016.
Cleta B. Deatherage Mitchell is an American lawyer,former politician,and Republican elections activist. Elected in 1976,Mitchell served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives until 1984,representing District 44 as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1996,she registered as a Republican. Since then,she has worked as a Republican lawyer and activist focused on elections,asserting that Democrats win elections only by cheating.
Christopher Thomas Sununu is an American politician and engineer who has served since 2017 as the 82nd governor of New Hampshire.
Electoral fraud in the United States,also known as voter fraud,involves illegal voting in or manipulation of United States elections. Types of fraud include voter impersonation or in-person voter fraud,mail-in or absentee ballot fraud,illegal voting by noncitizens and double voting.
The 2016 United States presidential election in New Hampshire was held on Tuesday,November 8,2016,as part of the 2016 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New Hampshire voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominee,businessman Donald Trump,and his running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence,against the Democratic Party's nominee,former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,and her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College.
John Robert "Jay" Ashcroft is an American attorney,engineer and politician serving as the 40th and current Secretary of State of Missouri since 2017. A member of the Republican Party,he is the son of former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The 2018 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor of New Hampshire. Incumbent Republican governor Chris Sununu won re-election to a second term,defeating former state senator Molly Kelly. Sununu was the first incumbent Republican to win reelection as governor since Steve Merrill was reelected in 1994.
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,also called the Voter Fraud Commission,was a Presidential Commission established by Donald Trump that ran from May 11,2017,to January 3,2018. The Trump administration said the commission would review claims of voter fraud,improper registration,and voter suppression. The establishment of the commission followed Trump's false claim that millions of illegal immigrants had voted in the 2016 presidential election,costing him the popular vote. Vice President Mike Pence was chosen as chair of the commission and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was its vice chair and day-to-day administrator.
Ballot collecting,also known as "ballot harvesting" or "ballot chasing",is the gathering and submitting of completed absentee or mail-in voter ballots by third-party individuals,volunteers or workers,rather than submission by voters themselves directly to ballot collection sites. It occurs in some areas of the U.S. where voting by mail is common,but some other states have laws restricting it.
The 2020 United States presidential election in New Hampshire was held on Tuesday,November 3,2020,as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states and the District of Columbia participated. New Hampshire voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote,pitting the Republican Party's nominees,incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence,against the Democratic Party's nominees,former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate,Senator Kamala Harris. New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College.
The 2018 New Hampshire Senate election was held on November 6,2018,concurrently with the elections for the New Hampshire House of Representatives,to elect members to the 166th New Hampshire General Court. All 24 seats in the New Hampshire Senate were up for election. It resulted in Democrats gaining control of both chambers of the New Hampshire General Court,ending the total control of New Hampshire's state government,that Republicans had held in New Hampshire since the 2016 state elections.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire were held on November 8,2022,to elect the two U.S. representatives from the state of New Hampshire,one from each of the state's two congressional districts.
Postal voting played an important role in the 2020 United States elections,with many voters reluctant to vote in person during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The election was won by Joe Biden,the Democratic candidate. The Republican candidate President Donald Trump made numerous false claims of widespread fraud arising from postal voting,despite nearly-universal agreement to the contrary,with overwhelming amounts of supporting evidence,by the mainstream media,fact-checkers,election officials,and the courts.
Following the 2020 United States presidential election and the unsuccessful attempts by Donald Trump and various other Republican officials to overturn it,Republican lawmakers initiated a sweeping effort to make voting laws more restrictive within several states across the country. According to the Brennan Center for Justice,as of October 4,2021,more than 425 bills that would restrict voting access have been introduced in 49 states—with 33 of these bills enacted across 19 states so far. The bills are largely centered around limiting mail-in voting,strengthening voter ID laws,shortening early voting,eliminating automatic and same-day voter registration,curbing the use of ballot drop boxes,and allowing for increased purging of voter rolls. Republicans in at least eight states have also introduced bills that would give lawmakers greater power over election administration after they were unsuccessful in their attempts to overturn election results in swing states won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election. The efforts garnered press attention and public outrage from Democrats,and by 2023 Republicans had adopted a more "under the radar" approach to achieve their goals.
The 2024 United States presidential election in New Hampshire is scheduled to take place on Tuesday,November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. New Hampshire voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College,following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
David M. Scanlan is an American politician and election official serving as the 54th secretary of state of New Hampshire. A Republican,he assumed office as acting secretary of state upon the resignation of Bill Gardner on January 10,2022. He was elected to a new two-year term as secretary of state by the New Hampshire General Court on December 7,2022. He previously served as deputy secretary of state,since 2002 and served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1984 to 2002,becoming majority leader.
