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Hillsborough County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 422,937, almost one-third the population of the entire state. Its county seats are Manchester and Nashua, the state's two biggest cities. Hillsborough is northern New England's most populous county as well as its most densely populated.
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.
Linda Gould is an American politician in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She currently is one of seven elected state representatives for the Hillsborough-7 district. She was elected for the first time in 2014.
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.
Sue Mullen is an American politician, who was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in the 2018 elections. She represented the Hillsborough 7th District as a member of the Democratic Party.
Melanie Ann Levesque is an American politician from the state of New Hampshire. A Democrat, Levesque represented the 12th district in the New Hampshire Senate from 2018 until 2020; she was the first African American to serve in that body. Levesque was chair of the Senate Election Law & Municipal Affairs committee, and served on the Judiciary and Transportation committees. Levesque previously served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2006 to 2010 and 2012 to 2014. In 2021, Levesque was a senior advisor for the New Hampshire Democratic Party. In 2022, Levesque announced her run for the New Hampshire Secretary of State.
Mary Sullivan Heath is an American educator and politician. She has served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Hillsborough 14, since 2013. She is a Democrat and serves as the House's Majority Floor Leader. She is the former dean of the School of Education at Southern New Hampshire University.
Jeanine M. Notter is an American politician serving as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Hillsborough 21st district. She assumed office in 2010.
Laurie Sanborn is an American politician in the state of New Hampshire. She is a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, sitting as a Republican from the Hillsborough 41 district, having been first elected in 2012. Sanborn has been a Deputy Majority Leader since December 2, 2020. Sanborn served in the House previously, representing Merrimack 5 from 2010 until her resignation on June 5, 2012.
Melissa Blasek is an American politician in the state of New Hampshire. She was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, sitting as a Republican from the Hillsborough-21 multi-member district from 2020 to 2022.
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.
Linda C. Harriott-Gathright is an American politician serving as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Hillsborough 36 district. She assumed office on December 5, 2018.
William Boyd III is an American politician who has served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives since 2021, representing Hillsborough County's 21st district, which contains the town of Merrimack. A member of the Republican Party, Boyd ran in an April 2021 special election to succeed Dick Hinch, who died of COVID-19 in December 2020. Boyd defeated the Democratic nominee, former state representative Wendy E.N. Thomas, by a margin of 2,531 votes to 2,144. Boyd's campaign was assisted by Mike Pompeo, a former United States secretary of state, and Tom Cotton, a United States senator from Arkansas.
Wendy E. N. Thomas is an American microbiologist and politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2018 until 2020, representing Hillsborough County's 21st district, which contains the town of Merrimack. In 2018, Thomas, a local activist and member of the Democratic Party, successfully ran for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, receiving 6.5% of the vote in the multi-member constituency, placing 7th out of the 8 winning candidates. In 2020, Thomas ran for re-election in the 21st district; however, she was defeated in the general election, receiving 6.2% of the vote and placing 10th.
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.
Maria Perez is an El-Salvadoran born American politician who served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the 43rd district which includes part of Hillsborough County First elected as a Democrat in 2020, Perez left the party to sit as an Independent in 2023, citing a lack of progress on issues and "feeling unwelcome in the party". Her party switch was met with mostly negative reactions from the Democratic Caucus, who cited the decision as "disappointing".
William Infantine is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member for the Hillsborough 16th district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He currently is the chair of the Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee.
Riché Colcombe is an American politician in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She is one of three representatives from Hillsborough 30 covering Hillsborough and Bennington. She was first elected in 2022.
David J. Gleneck was an American politician. He served as a Republican member for the Hillsborough 29th district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
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