1970 general · November 3, 1970
1970 New Hampshire House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every New Hampshire House of Representatives district in the 1970 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Republicans controlled the chamber · 400 seats
After the electionD 147 · R 253
Races193
Changed party7
Unopposed39%75 races
Incumbents defeated20
Every district
D 147 · R 253
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-210 | Alf Halvorson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-211 | John R. Coughlin · Jacob M. Hackler · Janet W. Dunham (R) | 13.5 | |
| HD-212 | James E. Oneil (R) | 73.5 | |
| HD-213 | Richard O. Vogel · Sumner W. Raymond · Robert L. Mallat Jr. (REP) | 0.0 | |
| HD-214 | H. Robie Ames · Michael J. Saunders (REP) | 0.8 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-410 | John K. Gemmill (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-411 | Carl P. Foster · Robert G. Dow (R) | 16.0 | |
| HD-412 | Roger M. Duhaime · Wilfred J. Tremblay (D) | 5.6 | |
| HD-413 | Frances B. Dudley · Shirley Merrill (R) | 41.8 | |
| HD-414 | Carl F. Altman (D) | 20.2 | Flipped |
| HD-415 | Arthur W. Blain (R) | 11.8 | |
| HD-416 | Ernest C. Hopkins (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-510 | Philip C. Heald Jr. · Edward G. Warren (R) | 19.5 | |
| HD-511 | Roscoe N. Coburn · Malcolm M. Carter · Charles W. Ferguson Jr. (R) | 9.8 | |
| HD-512 | Kenneth W. Spalding Jr. · Orson H. Bragdon (R) | 24.7 | |
| HD-513 | Betty B. Hall · Daniel Brocklebank (R) | 26.0 | |
| HD-514 | Maurice L. Bouchard · Gloria Belzil (REP) | 3.5 | |
| HD-515 | Marshall W. Cobleigh · Gerry F. Parker · Louis D. Record Jr. (REP) | 2.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-516 | Romeo R. Lesage · Agenor Belcourt · Hector Trombley (D) | 2.0 | |
| HD-517 | Samuel F. Mason · Peter R. Cote · A. Theresa Drabinowicz (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-518 | William A. Desmarais · Cleon J. Gardner · Henry J. Lachance (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-519 | Margaret S. Cote · Francis J. Chamard · Robert Oneil (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-520 | Oscar Grandmaison · Wilfrid Boisvert · Adelard J. Aubut (D) | 9.9 | |
| HD-521 | Donald C. Davidson · Leo O. Sirois · Romeo Ouellette (R) | 0.7 | |
| HD-522 | Ernest R. Coutermarsh · Robert L. Gabriel · Oscar P. Bissonnette (D) | 8.0 | |
| HD-523 | Phyllis M. Keeney · Stanley Alukonis · John M. Bednar · G. Philip Rodgers (REP) | 0.3 | |
| HD-524 | Arthur H. Peabody · Miles J. Cares (D) | 3.7 | |
| HD-525 | Elaine T. Lyons · Donald R. Dwyer (REP) | 6.8 | |
| HD-526 | John F. Bridges · John C. Harvell · Anna S. Vanloan (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-527 | Greta Ainley · Frances J. Abbott · Kimon S. Zachos · Norman F. Milne Jr. · Forsaith Daniels · George A. Lang (R) | 1.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-528 | Elmer A. Ackerson Sr. · Francis Murphy · J. Henry Montplaisir · C. Edward Bourassa · Gerald J. Barrett (REP) | 1.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-529 | Leo L. Dion · Armand L. Duhaime · George A. Bruton · Joseph Cote (D) | 6.3 | |
| HD-530 | William J. Cullity · John L. Welch · Walter F. McDermott (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-531 | Thomas E. Manning · Chris Spirou · Edward J. Walsh (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-532 | Daniel J. Healy · John T. Lynch · Edward D. Clancy · William J. McDonough · William F. Barrett · Joseph Lomazzo (D) | 6.0 | |
| HD-533 | Andre J. Simard · Charles J. Leclerc · Joseph A. Martel · Emile E. Boisvert (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-534 | Robert E. Raiche · Edward Champagne · Herman A. Campono · Michel Chevrette · Ernest Derome · Roland J. Saintonge · Armand J. Lemieux (DEM) | 4.7 | |
| HD-535 | Robert L. Robinson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-536 | James P. Oconnor · James A. Sweeney Jr. · Doris T. Lynch · Gerard H. Belanger (D) | 1.0 | |
| HD-610 | Clarence E. Bartlett (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-611 | Fred Avery · John H. Perkins Jr. (REP) | 18.5 | |
| HD-612 | George D. Kopperl (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-613 | Doris L. Thompson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-614 | Joseph Burleigh (R) | 32.2 | |
| HD-615 | Wiggin S. Gilman · John P. Dempsey (D) | 16.0 | |
| HD-616 | A. Stephen Greeley · John Chapley (REP) | 0.7 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-617 | Russell C. Mattice (R) | 21.9 | |
| HD-618 | James A. Humphrey (R) | 27.7 | |
| HD-619 | John R. Michels (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-620 | Edward H. York · Milton A. Cate (DEM) | 15.1 | |
| HD-621 | Alice Davis (R) | 48.2 | |
| HD-622 | Martin R. Haller (R) | 34.7 | |
| HD-623 | Donald Miner · Charles H. Cheney Sr. · Susan McLane (R) | 16.7 | |
| HD-624 | Barbara J. Underwood · Charles M. Filides (R) | 24.2 | |
| HD-710 | Doris M. Spollett (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-711 | Charles Everett Cummings (R) | 93.2 | |
| HD-712 | J. Henry Greenwood · Richardson D. Benton (R) | 10.0 | |
| HD-713 | Vera E. Goodrich · Mary T. Vey (R) | 14.4 | |
| HD-714 | F. Albert Sewall · John Twardus (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-715 | W. Douglas Scamman Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-716 | Henry H. Page · Lyman E. Collishaw · F. Leroy Junkins · Robert W. Varrill · Edwin W. Eastman (R) | 6.0 | |
| HD-717 | Stanley A. Hamel · Anthony T. Randall (R) | 14.9 | |
| HD-718 | George L. Cheney (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-719 | Marguerite B. Fiske (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-720 | Herbert A. Casassa · Wilfred R. Cunningham · Edmund Langley Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-721 | James F. Leavitt (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-722 | Richard S. Lockhart · Ralph F. Hammond · Elizabeth A. Greene (R) | 12.9 | |
| HD-723 | Edna B. Weeks (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-724 | Ralph C. Maynard · Archie D. McEachern · Mary E. Keefe (D) | 1.8 | |
| HD-725 | Ruth L. Griffin · James A. Chandler · Jeremiah Quirk (R) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-726 | C. Cecil Dame · William Palfrey · Thomas P. Connors (REP) | 1.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-727 | Raimond Bowles · J. Walter Jameson (R) | 5.1 | |
| HD-728 | Gerald G. Woods · Richard S. Levy (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| HD-729 | Shirley Croft · Wayne T. Bowlen (D) | 1.0 | |
| HD-810 | Paul R. Towle (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-811 | John H. Ineson · Barbara C. Thompson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-812 | Edgar J. Carignan · Alfred J. Ruel (D) | 3.9 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-813 | Donald Sylvain · Leo E. Beaudoin (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-814 | Ralph W. Dunlap · Howell F. Preston (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-815 | Sandra J. Balomenos · J. Thornton Tripp (R) | 17.0 | |
| HD-816 | Alice F. Blanchette · Raymond B. Peabody · Max W. Leighton (DEM) | 1.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-817 | Sadie C. Webber · Mary E. Bernard (D) | 12.7 | |
| BELKNAP 1 | H. Thomas Urie (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 2 | Robert Lawton · Marshall French (R) | 11.5 | |
| BELKNAP 3 | Charles B. Roberts · Nana M. Wilkinson (R) | 10.6 | |
| BELKNAP 4 | Esther R. Nighswander (R) | 50.0 | |
| BELKNAP 5 | Marion Wuelper (R) | 70.2 | |
| BELKNAP 6 | George B. Roberts Jr. (R) | 3.7 | |
| BELKNAP 7 | Jakob Mutzbauer (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 8 | Walter McCarthy · Robert E. Hood (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 9 | David O. Huot · Florence G. Drouin (D) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 10 | Oscar C. Prescott · George A. Head (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 11 | Dorothy V. Randlett · Lucien R. Dulac (REP) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 12 | David T. Whittemore · Frank A. Maguire Jr. (R) | 12.2 | |
| CARROLL 1 | Donalda K. Howard (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 2 | Grace N. Cox · Esther M. Davis · Guy H. Lagroe (R) | 13.8 | |
| CARROLL 3 | J. Donald Hayes (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 4 | Raymond K. Conley Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 5 | Dorothy W. Davis (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 6 | T. Anne Webster (R) | 78.9 | Incumbent lost |
| CARROLL 7 | Russell C. Chase · Russell G. Claflin (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 8 | Roland S. Hughes (R) | 41.6 | |
| CHESHIRE 1 | Edward A. Johnson · Louis S. Ballam (R) | 17.4 | |
| CHESHIRE 2 | Lawry W. Churchill (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 3 | Roxie A. Forbes (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 4 | C. R. Trowbridge (R) | 64.4 | |
| CHESHIRE 5 | William L. Yardley (R) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| CHESHIRE 6 | Homer J. Forcier · Wilfred W. Cournoyer (D) | 1.1 | Incumbent lost |
| CHESHIRE 7 | Charles L. McGiness (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 8 | James F. Allen (R) | 46.2 | |
| CHESHIRE 9 | Jennie B. Bennett · Elmer L. Johnson (R) | 10.2 | |
| CHESHIRE 15 | Bernard A. Streeter · Cleon E. Heald (R) | 12.1 | |
| CHESHIRE 16 | Philip D. Moran · Lawrence H. Mackenzie (R) | 1.6 | |
| CHESHIRE 17 | Harold F. Drew · Richard E. Cummings · Sheldon L. Barker (R) | 3.2 | |
| COOS 1 | Chester D. Noyes · Roland S. Cook · Harry F. Huggins (R) | 12.0 | |
| COOS 2 | Robert Mayhew · Roger L. Hunt · Walter O. Bushey (D) | 9.1 | |
| COOS 3 | Arthur M. Drake · Dana H. Lee (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 4 | Harold Burns (R) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| COOS 5 | Richard E. Ohara · Otto H. Oleson (D) | 18.6 | |
| COOS 6 | Guy Fortier · Leon T. Dubey · Edgar J. Roy (D) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 7 | Romeo A. Desilets · George T. Studd · Elmer H. York (D) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 8 | Hilda C. F. Brungot · Percy W. McCuin · George W. Oswell (R) | 0.3 | Incumbent lost |
| COOS 9 | Arthur A. Bouchard · Romeo J. Theriault · Rebecca A. Gagnon (D) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 10 | Victor L. Kidder (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 11 | Mabel L. Richardson (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 1 | Van H. Gardner · John H. Tilton · Malcolm J. Stevenson · Marcia Tefft Rich (R) | 2.8 | |
| GRAFTON 2 | Wayne G. Higgins (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 3 | Edna B. McGee (D) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 4 | George Brummer (D) | 14.6 | |
| GRAFTON 5 | Nelson H. Chamberlin (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 6 | Paul I. Lamott · Ezra B. Mann (R) | 25.9 | |
| GRAFTON 7 | Fayne E. Anderson (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 8 | John A. Menge (D) | 12.0 | Flipped |
| GRAFTON 9 | David H. Bradley · David C. Nutt · Laurence I. Radway (REP) | 3.3 | |
| GRAFTON 17 | Harold V. Buckman (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 18 | Kenneth G. Bell · Madison Sears (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 19 | Richard L. Bradley · Lester E. Mitchell Sr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 1 | Howard S. Humphrey Sr. (R) | 37.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 2 | Joseph M. Eaton · Richard W. Withington (R) | 47.3 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 3 | Frank N. Sawyer (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 4 | Charles A. Weilbrenner · Roland A. Barnard · Barbara S. Poehlman · Robert B. Monier · Alice Tirirrell Knight (DEM) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 5 | Marjorie D. Colburn (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 6 | Albert Daloz (R) | 54.0 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 7 | Arthur F. Mann · Fred E. Murray (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 8 | Theodore H. Karnis (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 9 | Clyde S. Eaton (R) | 3.3 | Flipped |
| HILLSBOROUGH 37 | Dennis J. Murphy · Catherine G. Lamy · Daniel J. Clear (D) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 38 | Albert R. Martineau · Alphonse Levasseur · Joseph C. Nalette (D) | 20.9 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 39 | Edmond Allard · Lucien G. Lambert · Arthur Brunelle · Origene E. Lesmerises · Josaphat Lavallee (D) | 6.1 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 40 | Timothy K. Oconnor · Marcel A. Vachon · John A. Burke · Emmett J. Grady (D) | 13.0 | |
| MERRIMACK 1 | William T. Andrews (R) | 79.2 | |
| MERRIMACK 2 | Kenneth L. Sherman (R) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 3 | L. Waldo Bigelow Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 4 | Christopher C. Hardy (R) | 14.7 | |
| MERRIMACK 5 | Samuel Reddy Jr. · Harry C. Parker (R) | 20.8 | |
| MERRIMACK 6 | Richard D. Hanson (R) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 7 | Doris J. Riley · Edward H. Enright (DEM) | 9.7 | |
| MERRIMACK 8 | Ovila Gamache (D) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 9 | Fred D. Little · George E. Gordon III (R) | 2.9 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 25 | Maurice B. Macdonald · Horace W. Sanders · Ralph W. Wilson · Wilfred B. Howland (R) | 2.0 | |
| MERRIMACK 26 | Eugene H. Woodward Jr. · C. Edwin Howard · Roland F. Fuller · William F. Glavin (R) | 10.3 | |
| MERRIMACK 27 | Shirley B. Welch · John H. Noble (R) | 20.1 | |
| MERRIMACK 28 | Kenneth M. Tarr (D) | 2.2 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 1 | John T. Fernald · John H. Stimmell (R) | 26.9 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 2 | Helen F. Wilson (R) | 95.8 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 3 | Margaret A. Griffin (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 4 | William P. Boucher · Earle L. Soule (R) | 46.6 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 5 | Kenneth L. Senter · Charles H. Gay · Maurice W. Read · Herbert L. Macgregor · Ferne P. Adams (R) | 3.0 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 6 | Kenneth C. Lovell (R) | 35.7 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 7 | Philip A. Smith · James A. Sayer · Laurence N. Belair · Bessie M. Morrison · Jeanette Gelt · Robert Oneil (REP) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 8 | Ernest D. Clark · George W. White (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 9 | Mildred L. Palmer · Annie Mae Schwaner (R) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 1 | F. Everett McIntire (D) | 13.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| STRAFFORD 2 | Elmer C. Smith · Ernest B. Brown · Ralph W. Canney (R) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 3 | Douglas M. Stevenson (R) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 4 | Loring V. Tirrell · John A. Beckett · Shirley M. Clark · Alexander Cochrane (R) | 1.6 | |
| STRAFFORD 5 | Grace L. Joncas (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 6 | Helen Maloomian (D) | 35.2 | |
| STRAFFORD 7 | Eugene J. Habel (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 8 | Peter N. Chasse · Roland N. Hebert (D) | 2.6 | |
| STRAFFORD 9 | Henry Boire · Roland W. Dumais (D) | 28.6 | |
| STRAFFORD 18 | Carroll E. Fellows · John T. Young · Fred H. Mudgett (R) | 2.6 | Incumbent lost |
| STRAFFORD 19 | Harriett W. B. Richardson · Aram Parnagian · Paul L. Kinney · L. James Dewolfe Jr. (R) | 1.7 | |
| STRAFFORD 20 | John Maglaras (D) | 36.0 | |
| SULLIVAN 1 | Sara M. Townsend (R) | 39.3 | |
| SULLIVAN 2 | Donald R. Chase (D) | 3.8 | Flipped |
| SULLIVAN 3 | Omer A. Rousseau · William L. Gaffney (D) | 3.9 | |
| SULLIVAN 4 | Sam J. Nahil · George W. Angus · Roma A. Spaulding · Allan P. Campbell (R) | 4.5 | |
| SULLIVAN 5 | Carmine F. Damante · Adolph J. Burrows · Arthur Barrows (D) | 6.4 | Incumbent lost |
| SULLIVAN 6 | James Saggiotes · Jacob M. Shulins · Maurice J. Downing · Gordon B. Flint Jr. (REP) | 1.7 | Incumbent lost |
| SULLIVAN 7 | Martha McD Frizzell · Donald B. Galbraith (R) | 14.3 | |
| SULLIVAN 8 | Joseph O. Fleming (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 9 | Stanley H. Williamson (R) | Unopposed |
New Hampshire House of Representatives
Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner