Political party strength in New Hampshire

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of New Hampshire:

• Governor

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

• Executive Council
• State Senate
• State House of Representatives
• State delegation to the U.S. Senate
• State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives

For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

Pre-statehood–1882

Year	Executive office		General Court		United States Congress						Electoral votes
	Governor	Exec. Council	State Senate	State House	Senator (Class II)	Senator (Class III)	House
1631 – 1636	Thomas Wiggin [a]
1637 – 1640	George Burdett [a]
1641	…
1776 – 1784	Meshech Weare (N)	[ ? ]
1785	John Langdon (N)
1786	John Sullivan (F)
1787
1788	John Langdon (DR)
1789	John Sullivan (F) [b]				Paine Wingate (AA)	John Langdon (PA)	3PA				George Washington/ John Adams (I)Y
1790	Josiah Bartlett (DR)
1791
1792
1793					Samuel Livermore (PA)	John Langdon (AA)	3PA, 1AA
1794	John Taylor Gilman (F)
1795			F majority	F majority	Samuel Livermore (F)	John Langdon (DR)	3F, 1DR
1796			F majority	F majority							John Adams Y / Oliver Ellsworth N(F)
1797			F majority	F majority			4F
1798			F majority	F majority
1799			F majority	F majority
1800			11F, 1DR	F majority							John Adams/ Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (F)N
1801				F majority	Simeon Olcott (F)	James Sheafe (F)
1802			9F, 3DR	F majority		William Plumer (F)
1803			7F, 5DR	84F, 69DR			5F
1804			6DR, 6F [c]	87DR, 75F							Thomas Jefferson/ George Clinton (DR)Y
1805	John Langdon (DR)		8DR, 4F	92DR, 71F	Nicholas Gilman (DR)
1806			10DR, 2F	108DR, 52F
1807			8DR, 4F	DR majority		Nahum Parker (DR)	5DR
1808			9DR, 3F	99DR, 63F							Charles Cotesworth Pinckney/ Rufus King (F)N
1809	Jeremiah Smith (F)		7F, 5DR	99DR, 67F			5F
1810	John Langdon (DR)		7DR, 5F	91DR, 81F		Charles Cutts (DR)
1811			8DR, 4F	98DR, 77F			4DR, 1F
1812	William Plumer (DR)		7DR, 5F	104DR, 79F							DeWitt Clinton/ Jared Ingersoll (F)N
1813	John Taylor Gilman (F)		9F, 3DR	106F, 75DR		Jeremiah Mason (F)	6F
1814			8F, 4DR	98F, 89DR	Thomas W. Thompson (F)
1815				102F, 86DR
1816	William Plumer (DR)		8DR, 4F	105DR, 84F							James Monroe/ Daniel D. Tompkins (DR)Y
1817			11DR, 1F	107DR, 87F	David L. Morril (DR)	Clement Storer (DR)	6DR
1818			10DR, 2F	119DR, 75F
1819	Samuel Bell (DR)		11DR, 1F	124DR, 70F		John F. Parrott (DR)
1820			DR majority	DR majority
1821			DR majority	DR majority
1822			DR majority	DR majority
1823	Levi Woodbury (DR)		DR majority	DR majority	Samuel Bell (DR)		6 Adams-Clay DR
1824	David L. Morril (DR)		DR majority	DR majority							John Quincy Adams/ John C. Calhoun (DR)Y
1825			10J, 2NR	104J, 101NR, 5 vac.	Samuel Bell (NR)	Levi Woodbury (J)	5NR, 1J
1826			8J, 4NR	98J, 91NR, 18?, 4 vac. [d]
1827	Benjamin Pierce (DR)		11J, 1NR	89NR, 84J, 40?, 2 vac. [d]
1828	John Bell (NR)		10NR, 2J	92NR, 84J, 30?, 2 vac. [e]							John Quincy Adams/ Richard Rush (NR)N
1829	Benjamin Pierce (D)		8J, 4NR	99J, 82NR			6J
1830	Matthew Harvey (D) [f]		9J, 3NR	111J, 101NR
1831	Joseph M. Harper (D) [g]		10J, 2NR	140J, 73NR		Isaac Hill (J)
	Samuel Dinsmoor (D)
1832			11J, 1NR	144D, 52NR, 26?							Andrew Jackson/ Martin Van Buren (D)Y
1833				125J, 42NR			5J
1834	William Badger (D)		12D	150D, 46W
1835			11D, 1W	150D, 58W	Henry Hubbard (J)
1836	Isaac Hill (D)			168D, 46W		John Page (J)					Martin Van Buren/ Richard Mentor Johnson (D)Y
1837				177D, 51W	Henry Hubbard (D)	Franklin Pierce (D)	5D
1838			8D, 4W	129D, 116W
1839	John Page (D)		10D, 2W	154D, 91W
1840				171D, 69W							Martin Van Buren (D)N
1841				161D, 85W	Levi Woodbury (D)
1842	Henry Hubbard (D)		11D, 1W	166D, 64W		Leonard Wilcox (D)
1843			10D, 2W	139D, 98W		Charles G. Atherton (D)	4D
1844	John Hardy Steele (D)		11D, 1W	153D, 81W							James K. Polk/ George M. Dallas (D)Y
1845			12D	156D, 74W, 7Lty			3D, 1 Vacant
1846	Anthony Colby (W)		7W, 4D, 1I	124D, 107W, 32I, 11Lty [h]	Benning W. Jenness (D)
		Joseph Cilley (Lty)
1847	Jared W. Williams (D)	11D, 1W	146D, 136W	John P. Hale (ID)	NH-1		NH-2	NH-3	NH-4
					Amos Tuck (I)		Charles H. Peaslee (D)	James Wilson II (W)	James Hutchins Johnson (D)
1848		10D, 2W	159D, 121W							Lewis Cass/ William O. Butler (D)N
1849	Samuel Dinsmoor Jr. (D)	11D, 1W	158D, 107W	John P. Hale (FS)	Moses Norris Jr. (D)	Amos Tuck (FS)			Harry Hibbard (D)
1850			189D, 86W					George W. Morrison (D)
1851		10D, 2W	114D, 114W, 54FS, 10 vac. [i]			Amos Tuck (W)		Jared Perkins (W)
1852	Noah Martin (D)		141D, 101W, 32FS, 4I							Franklin Pierce/ William R. King (D)Y
1853		11D, 1W	178D, 92W, 34FS	Charles G. Atherton (D)		Dist. 1		Dist. 2	Dist. 3
						George W. Kittredge (D)		George W. Morrison (D)	Harry Hibbard (D)
1854	Nathaniel B. Baker (D)	10D, 2W	160D, 145W, 1?, 5 vac.	Jared W. Williams (D)
1855	Ralph Metcalf (KN)	11KN, 1D	227R, 79D, 2?, 5 vac.	vacant	John S. Wells (D)	James Pike (KN)		Mason Tappan (KN)	Aaron H. Cragin (KN)
				John P. Hale (R)	James Bell (R)
1856		8KN, 4D	168R, 146D							John C. Frémont/ William L. Dayton (R)N
1857	William Haile (R)	8R, 4D	196R, 128D, 4 vac.		Daniel Clark (R)	James Pike (R)		Mason Tappan (R)	Aaron H. Cragin (R)
1858		9R, 3D	196R, 119D
1859	Ichabod Goodwin (R)	8R, 4D	199R, 126D			Gilman Marston (R)			Thomas M. Edwards (R)
1860		10R, 2D	206R, 121D							Abraham Lincoln/ Hannibal Hamlin (R)Y
1861	Nathaniel S. Berry (R)		200R, 121D					Edward H. Rollins (R)
1862		9R, 3D	203R, 120D
1863	Joseph A. Gilmore (R)		190R, 141D			Daniel Marcy (D)			James W. Patterson (R)
1864			210R, 123D							Abraham Lincoln/ Andrew Johnson (NU)Y
1865	Frederick Smyth (R)		214R, 114D	Aaron H. Cragin (R)		Gilman Marston (R)
1866			208R, 114D		George G. Fogg (R)
1867	Walter Harriman (R)		202R, 128D		James W. Patterson (R)	Jacob Hart Ela (R)		Aaron Fletcher Stevens (R)	Jacob Benton (R)
1868			194R, 138D							Ulysses S. Grant/ Schuyler Colfax (R)Y
1869	Onslow Stearns (R)		194R, 140D
1870		11R, 1D	201R, 126D
1871	James A. Weston (D)	6D, 6R [j]	165D, 164R			Ellery Albee Hibbard (D)		Samuel Newell Bell (D)	Hosea W. Parker (D)
1872	Ezekiel A. Straw (R)	8R, 4D	210R, 150D							Ulysses S. Grant/ Henry Wilson (R)Y
1873		9R, 3D	204R, 144D		Bainbridge Wadleigh (R)	William B. Small (R)		Austin F. Pike (R)
1874	James A. Weston (D)	8D, 4R	177D, 164R
1875	Person Colby Cheney (R)	7D, 5R	191R, 182D			Frank Jones (D)		Samuel Newell Bell (D)	Henry W. Blair (R)
1876		9R, 3D	211R, 180D							Rutherford B. Hayes/ William A. Wheeler (R)Y
1877	Benjamin F. Prescott (R)	8R, 4D	224R, 155D	Edward H. Rollins (R)				James F. Briggs (R)
1878			216R, 170D
1879	Nathaniel Head (R)	20R, 4D	168R, 100D, 11GB		Charles H. Bell (R)	Joshua G. Hall (R)			Evarts W. Farr (R)
1880					Henry W. Blair (R)					James A. Garfield/ Chester A. Arthur (R)Y
1881	Charles H. Bell (R)	16R, 8D	179R, 114D						Ossian Ray (R)
1882

1883–present

Year	Executive office		General Court		United States Congress				Electoral votes
	Governor	Executive Council [2]	State Senate	State House	Senator (Class II)	Senator (Class III)	House District 1	House District 2
1883	Samuel W. Hale (R)	[ ? ]	17R, 7D	188R, 121D, 1I	Austin F. Pike (R)	Henry W. Blair (R)	Martin A. Haynes (R)	Ossian Ray (R)
1884									James G. Blaine/ John A. Logan (R)N
1885	Moody Currier (R)		15R, 8D, 1P [k]	183R, 122D				Jacob H. Gallinger (R)
1886
1887	Charles H. Sawyer (R)		15R, 9D	169R, 138D	Person Colby Cheney (R)		Luther F. McKinney (D)
1888					William E. Chandler (R)				Benjamin Harrison/ Levi P. Morton (R)Y
1889	David H. Goodell (R)		18R, 6D	169R, 144D	Gilman Marston (R)		Alonzo Nute (R)	Orren C. Moore (R)
1890					William E. Chandler (R)
1891	Hiram A. Tuttle (R)		14R, 10D	185R, 170D		Jacob H. Gallinger (R)	Luther F. McKinney (D)	Warren F. Daniell (D)
1892									Benjamin Harrison/ Whitelaw Reid (R)N
1893	John Butler Smith (R)		15R, 9D	209R, 149D			Henry W. Blair (R)	Henry M. Baker (R)
1894
1895	Charles A. Busiel (R)		21R, 3D	264R, 99D			Cyrus A. Sulloway (R)
1896									William McKinley/ Garret Hobart (R)Y
1897	George A. Ramsdell (R)		22R, 2D	291R, 66D				Frank G. Clarke (R)
1898
1899	Frank W. Rollins (R)			250R, 109D, 1ID
1900									William McKinley/ Theodore Roosevelt (R)Y
1901	Chester B. Jordan (R)		23R, 1D	300R, 97D	Henry E. Burnham (R)			Frank D. Currier (R)
1902
1903	Nahum J. Bachelder (R)		20R, 4D	257R, 136D
1904									Theodore Roosevelt/ Charles W. Fairbanks (R)Y
1905	John McLane (R)		21R, 3D	286R, 105D
1905
1907	Charles M. Floyd (R)		18R, 6D	262R, 128D, 1I
1908									William Howard Taft/ James S. Sherman (R)Y
1909	Henry B. Quinby (R)		20R, 4D	269R, 117D, 1I
1910
1911	Robert P. Bass (R)		16R, 8D	220R, 173D
1912									Woodrow Wilson/ Thomas R. Marshall (D)Y
1913	Samuel D. Felker (D)		14D, 10R	207R, 195D [l]	Henry F. Hollis (D)		Eugene E. Reed (D)	Raymond B. Stevens (D)
1914
1915	Rolland H. Spaulding (R)		19R, 4D, 1Prog	250R, 153D, 5Prog			Cyrus A. Sulloway (R)	Edward Hills Wason (R)
1916
1917	Henry W. Keyes (R)		16R, 8D	246R, 157D, 1I			Sherman Everett Burroughs (R)
1918						Irving W. Drew (R)
1919	John H. Bartlett (R)		19R, 5D	244R, 160D, 1ID, 1I	Henry W. Keyes (R)	George H. Moses (R)
1920									Warren G. Harding/ Calvin Coolidge (R)Y
1921	Albert O. Brown (R)		21R, 3D	294R, 109D, 1I
1922
1923	Fred H. Brown (D)		16R, 8D	220D, 196R, 2I			William N. Rogers (D)
1924									Calvin Coolidge/ Charles G. Dawes (R)Y
1925	John Gilbert Winant (R)		19R, 5D	273R, 147D, 1I			Fletcher Hale (R)
1926
1927	Huntley N. Spaulding (R)		20R, 4D	286R, 131D, 1I
1928									Herbert Hoover/ Charles Curtis (R)Y
1929	Charles W. Tobey (R)		19R, 5D	273R, 148D
1930
1931	John Gilbert Winant (R)			254R, 163D
1932							William N. Rogers (D)		Herbert Hoover/ Charles Curtis (R)N
1933			16R, 8D	225R, 193D		Fred H. Brown (D)		Charles W. Tobey (R)
1934
1935	Styles Bridges (R)		15R, 9D	213R, 208D, 1I, 2 vac.
1936									Franklin D. Roosevelt/ John Nance Garner (D)Y
1937	Francis P. Murphy (R)		16R, 8D	230R, 187D, 1I	Styles Bridges (R)		Arthur B. Jenks (R)
1938							Alphonse Roy (D)
1939			18R, 6D	269R, 158D		Charles W. Tobey (R)	Arthur B. Jenks (R)	Foster W. Stearns (R)
1940									Franklin D. Roosevelt/ Henry A. Wallace (D)Y
1941	Robert O. Blood (R)		16R, 8D	229R, 194D
1942
1943			17R, 7D	276R, 167D			Chester E. Merrow (R)
1944									Franklin D. Roosevelt/ Harry S. Truman (D)Y
1945	Charles M. Dale (R)		15R, 9D	266R, 163D, 1I				Sherman Adams (R)
1946
1947		19R, 5D	273R, 126D, 1I	Norris Cotton (R)
1948								Thomas E. Dewey/ Earl Warren (R)N
1949	Sherman Adams (R)	18R, 6D	254R, 145D
1950
1951			263R, 133D, 3I
1952								Dwight D. Eisenhower/ Richard Nixon (R)Y
1953	Hugh Gregg (R)		276R, 122D, 1I
1954						Robert W. Upton (R)
1955	Lane Dwinell (R)		264R, 135D	Norris Cotton (R)		Perkins Bass (R)
1956
1957			276R, 118D, 3I
1958
1959	Wesley Powell (R)		264R, 136D
1960								Richard Nixon/ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R)N
1961			259R, 139D, 1I
1962					Maurice J. Murphy Jr. (R)
1963	John W. King (D)	4R, 1D	19R, 5D		253R, 146D	Thomas J. McIntyre (D)	Louis C. Wyman (R)		James Colgate Cleveland (R)
1964								Lyndon B. Johnson/ Hubert Humphrey (D)Y
1965		4D, 1R	14R, 10D		216R, 183D		J. Oliva Huot (D)
1966
1967		4R, 1D			245R, 155D		Louis C. Wyman (R)
1968								Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew (R)Y
1969	Walter R. Peterson Jr. (R)	5R	15R, 9D		255R, 145D
1970
1971		4R, 1D			253R, 147D
1972
1973	Meldrim Thomson Jr. (R)	5R	14R, 10D		263R, 137D
1974
1975			13R, 11D	234R, 166D	Louis C. Wyman (R) [m]		Norman D'Amours (D)
					vacant [m]
					Norris Cotton (R) [m]
1976					John A. Durkin (D)			Gerald Ford/ Bob Dole (R)N
1977		4R, 1D	12R, 12D [n]	220R, 180D
1978
1979	Hugh Gallen (D) [o]			225R, 175D		Gordon J. Humphrey (R)
1980								Ronald Reagan/ George H. W. Bush (R)Y
1981			14R, 10D	240R, 160D	Warren Rudman (R)				Judd Gregg (R)
1982	Vesta M. Roy (R) [g]
1983	John H. Sununu (R)		15R, 9D	242R, 158D
1984
1985		5R	18R, 6D	298R, 102D			Bob Smith (R)
1986
1987			16R, 8D	267R, 133D
1988								George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)Y
1989	Judd Gregg (R)			282R, 118D					Chuck Douglas (R)
1990
1991			13R, 11D	271R, 129D		Bob Smith (R)	Bill Zeliff (R)		Richard N. Swett (D)
1992								Bill Clinton/ Al Gore (D)Y
1993	Steve Merrill (R)			256R, 140D, 4L	Judd Gregg (R)
1994
1995			18R, 6D	290R, 110D					Charles Bass (R)
1996
1997	Jeanne Shaheen (D)	4R, 1D	15R, 9D	254R, 146D			John E. Sununu (R)
1998
1999		5R	13D, 11R	245R, 155D
2000			12D, 12R [p]					George W. Bush/ Dick Cheney (R)Y
2001			13R, 11D	256R, 144D
2002
2003	Craig Benson (R)		18R, 6D	278R, 122D		John E. Sununu (R)	Jeb Bradley (R)
2004								John Kerry/ John Edwards (D)N
2005	John Lynch (D)	4R, 1D	16R, 8D	249R, 151D
2006
2007		3D, 2R	14D, 10R	239D, 160R, 1I			Carol Shea-Porter (D)		Paul Hodes (D)
2008								Barack Obama/ Joe Biden (D)Y
2009				225D, 175R		Jeanne Shaheen (D)
2010				224D, 176R
2011		5R	19R, 5D	298R, 102D	Kelly Ayotte (R)		Frank Guinta (R)		Charles Bass (R)
2012				295R, 105D [q]
2013	Maggie Hassan (D)	3D, 2R	13R, 11D	221D, 179R			Carol Shea-Porter (D)		Annie Kuster (D)
2014				213D, 174R, 13 vac.
2015		3R, 2D	14R, 10D	239R, 160D, 1I			Frank Guinta (R)
2016								Hillary Clinton/ Tim Kaine (D)N
2017	Chris Sununu (R)			217R, 176D, 3L	Maggie Hassan (D)		Carol Shea-Porter (D)
2018
2019		3D, 2R	14D, 10R	234D, 166R			Chris Pappas (D)
2020								Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris (D)Y
2021		4R, 1D	14R, 10D	213R, 187D
2022				211R, 188D, 1I
2023				201R, 199D
2024				201R, 196D, 3I				Kamala Harris/ Tim Walz (D)N
2025	Kelly Ayotte (R)		16R, 8D	222R, 178D					Maggie Goodlander (D)

Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress and other politicians or officials

Alaskan Independence (AKIP) Know Nothing (KN) American Labor (AL) Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J) National Republican (NR) Anti-Administration (AA) Anti-Masonic (Anti-M) Conservative (Con) Covenant (Cov)

Democratic (D) Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Democratic–NPL (D-NPL) Dixiecrat (Dix), States' Rights (SR) Democratic-Republican (DR) Farmer–Labor (FL) Federalist (F) Pro-Administration (PA)

Free Soil (FS) Fusion (Fus) Greenback (GB) Independence (IPM) Independent Democrat (ID) Independent Republican (IR) Jacksonian (J) Liberal (Lib)

Libertarian (L) National Union (NU) Nonpartisan League (NPL) Nullifier (N) Opposition Northern (O) Opposition Southern (O) Populist (Pop) Progressive (Prog)

Prohibition (Proh) Readjuster (Rea) Republican (R) Silver (Sv) Silver Republican (SvR) Socialist (Soc) Union (U) Unconditional Union (UU)

Vermont Progressive (VP) Whig (W) Independent (I) Nonpartisan (NP)

1. Governor of the Upper Plantation of New Hampshire.
2. Resigned to take a seat on a federal court.
3. A Democratic-Republican, Nicholas Gilman, was elected as President of the Senate.
4. A Jacksonian, Henry Hubbard, was re-elected as Speaker.
5. A National Republican, James Wilson II, was elected as Speaker.
6. Resigned to take a seat on the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire.
7. As president of the state senate, acted as governor for unexpired term.
8. A coalition of Whigs, Independent Democrats, and Liberty Partiers elected John P. Hale, then an Independent Democrat, to be Speaker, and they organized the chamber.
9. A Democrat, Nathaniel B. Baker, was elected as Speaker.
10. A Democrat, George W. M. Pittman, was elected Senate President. ^[1]
11. Following the death of Republican State Senator Hiram T. Morrill on July 7, 1885, the General Court elected Prohibition Party candidate Frank G. Thurston to fill the vacancy. ^[3]
12. A coalition of Progressive Republicans and Democrats elected a Progressive Republican, William Britton, as Speaker.
13. After having apparently won election to the Senate, Wyman was appointed to serve out the last 4 days of retiring Senator Norris Cotton's term. However, Durkin contested the election results in the Senate, which resulted in the seat being vacant for seven months until an agreement to hold a new special election between Wyman and Durkin. Cotton was reappointed to his old seat in the meantime (from August 8 to September 18), and Durkin, having emerged victorious in the special election was finally seated on September 18.
14. Republican Senate Presidents, first Alf E. Jacobson, then Robert B. Monier, were chosen in 1977 and 1979.
15. Fell ill and yielded his powers to the president of the state Senate; died on December 29, 1982.
16. In summer 1999 a Democratic senator died and was succeeded by a Republican elected in a special election.
17. Democrats flipped three seats from the Republicans in 2011 special elections

References

1. Biographical Sketches of the Delegates to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention for 1889. compiler. 1889. p. 41.
2. "NH Elections Database » Search Elections". NH Elections Database. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
3. Yeargain, Tyler (2021). "New England State Senates: Case Studies for Revisiting the Indirect Election of Legislators". University of New Hampshire Law Review. 19 (2): 370–71. Retrieved April 28, 2021.

See also

• Politics in New Hampshire
• Politics of New Hampshire
• Elections in New Hampshire
• List of New Hampshire General Courts