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David E. Cote is an American politician in the state of New Hampshire. He is a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives,sitting as a Democrat from the Hillsborough 3 district,having been first elected in 1982 and serving until his resignation in 2023. Cote currently serves as house minority leader,and ranking member on the election law and redistricting committees. He previously chaired the election law and judiciary committees. As of early 2022,he had not cast a vote or attended a House session since March 11,2020 due to COVID health concerns. On July 5,2023,Cote resigned after the New Hampshire House refused to allow continued remote participation.
Joshua Query is an American politician from Manchester,New Hampshire who served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022. They represented the Hillsborough 16th District as a member of the Democratic Party. Query was re-elected to the statehouse in 2020 as New Hampshire’s first genderqueer representative. Query is running for State Representative in the 2024 cycle in the Hillsborough 20th district.
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Peter Petrigno is an American politician,educator,and community organizer who is currently serving as a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for Hillsborough 43 - Milford. He was first elected in 2018.
The 2022 New Hampshire House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of New Hampshire on November 8,2022,to elect all 400 members of the House of Representatives of the 168th New Hampshire General Court.
The 2024 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary was held on January 23,2024,as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. The January New Hampshire primary was not sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The DNC-approved 2024 calendar placed the South Carolina primary first,but New Hampshire state law mandates them to hold the first primary in the country,and a "bipartisan group of state politicians",including the chairs of the Democratic and the Republican parties,announced that the state would preserve this status. Thus,the DNC initially stripped all 33 of the state's delegates that would have been allocated to the Democratic National Convention. The delegates will be allowed to be seated at the convention following the holding of a party-backed firehouse primary on April 27.
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- ↑ "NH House Hillsborough County District 02: Elected Officials". CitizensCount. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
- ↑ "Representative Dan Hynes (I)". The General Court of New Hampshire. Archived from the original on February 8, 2024. Retrieved February 7, 2024– via Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Rep. Hynes Leaves GOP, Says Kids Have 'Constitutional Right' to Privacy From Parents". NH Journal. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- ↑ "Bedford state representative announces resignation". Manchester Ink Link. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
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