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The State of New Hampshire has a republican form of government modeled after the Government of the United States,with three branches:the executive,consisting of the Governor of New Hampshire and the other elected constitutional officers;the legislative,called the New Hampshire General Court,which includes the Senate and the House of Representatives;and the judicial,consisting of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire and lower courts.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court,the bicameral legislature of the state of New Hampshire. The House of Representatives consists of 400 members coming from 203 legislative districts across the state,created from divisions of the state's counties. On average,each legislator represents about 3,300 residents,which is the smallest lower house representative-to-population ratio in the country.
The New Hampshire Senate is the upper house of the New Hampshire General Court,alongside the lower New Hampshire House of Representatives. The Senate has been meeting since 1784. The Senate consists of 24 members representing Senate districts based on population. There are 14 Republicans and 10 Democrats currently serving in the Senate.
New Hampshire's 1st congressional district covers parts of Southern New Hampshire and the eastern portion of the state. The district contains parts of Hillsborough,Rockingham,Merrimack,Grafton,and Belknap counties;and the entirety of Strafford and Carroll counties.
New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district covers the western,northern,and some southern parts of New Hampshire. It includes the state's second-largest city,Nashua,as well as the state capital,Concord. It is currently represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Ann McLane Kuster.
New Hampshire is often noted for its moderate politics and its status as a prominent swing state. Voters predominantly selected Republicans for national office during the 19th and 20th centuries until 1992. Since then,the state has been considered a swing state. Since 2006,control of the state legislature and New Hampshire's congressional seats have switched back and forth between Republicans and Democrats. Although the state has voted for the Democratic candidate in the last four presidential elections since 2004,it has done so by relatively small margins.
John Steven Vaillancourt was an American politician,who served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He represented Hillsborough County District 15,the city of Manchester Ward 8. He served from 1996 to 2014 and from 2016 until his death. He served as a member of the Democratic Party,the Libertarian Party,and later the Republican Party. Vaillancourt also served as Manchester alderman for Ward 8 from 1999 to 2001 while serving in the State House of Representatives.
Stacie-Marie Laughton is an American politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2020 to 2022,representing District 31 in Hillsborough County. A member of the Democratic Party,she had previously been elected to the chamber in the 2012 elections to represent Ward 4 in Nashua,but resigned her position as Representative-elect due to the surfacing of a past criminal conviction. She was also a selectwoman in the ward.
Steve Negron is an American politician from Nashua,New Hampshire who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He was the Republican nominee for the United States Congress in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in 2018 and 2020,losing both times to Democratic incumbent Annie Kuster.
Lisa Bunker is an American politician who was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2018. She represents the Rockingham 18th District as a member of the Democratic Party.
Gerri Cannon is an American politician,who was elected in 2018 to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She represents the Strafford 18th District as a member of the Democratic Party. She was previously elected to the Somersworth,New Hampshire School Board.
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 2020 New Hampshire Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 2020 United States elections. New Hampshire voters elected state senators in all of the state's 24 senate districts. State senators serve two-year terms in the New Hampshire Senate,with all of the seats up for election each cycle. The primary elections on September 8,2020,determined which candidates will appear on the November 3,2020,general election ballot.
Tony Labranche is a New Hampshire politician. He was the youngest member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the youngest openly LGBTQ+ legislator in United States history.
Catherine A. Rombeau is an American politician of the Democratic Party,who is a State Representative for Hillsborough County's 7th district in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Her 37-vote victory in a special election marked the first flip for Democrats in the 2021 United States state legislative elections,and made her only the second Democrat to be elected to the state house from the town of Bedford,a historically Republican town.
The 2022 New Hampshire Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 2022 United States elections. New Hampshire voters elected state senators in all of the state's 24 senate districts. State senators serve two-year terms in the New Hampshire Senate,with all of the seats up for election each cycle. The primary elections held on September 13,2022,determined which candidates would appear on the November 8,2022,general election ballot.
Beatrice Perin Barker Hall was an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. Hall served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives for a total of 28 years,serving non-consecutively from 1970 until 2008.
The "rainbow wave" was a phrase coined in 2018 to describe the unparalleled number of openly LGBTQ+ candidates running for political office in the United States that year. The rainbow wave began during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections when over 400 LGBTQ+ candidates ran for office and a record-breaking 244 were elected.
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 Primary Source: Election boosts diversity in Democratic NH House caucus". WMUR-TV, November 15, 2018.
- ↑ "Transgender representation to nearly double in state legislatures". NBC News. 2020-11-06. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ↑ "OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE - ELECTION DIVISION DEMOCRATIC CUMULATIVE FILING AS OF 06/21/2024" (PDF). June 24th, 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ "New Hampshire Elections Results: State House - Hillsboro District 16 - General". Associated Press . New Hampshire Public Radio. November 6, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ↑ "New Hampshire Elections Results: State House - Hillsboro District 16 - General". Associated Press . New Hampshire Public Radio. November 3, 2020. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ↑ Bauer, Sydney (November 6, 2020). "Transgender representation to nearly double in state legislatures". NBC News . Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ↑ Purlfoy, Parker (November 18, 2020). "Trans, non-binary candidates make history in state legislative races". Washington Blade . Retrieved November 29, 2020.
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