1986 general · November 4, 1986
1986 New Hampshire House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every New Hampshire House of Representatives district in the 1986 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Republicans controlled the chamber · 400 seats
After the electionD 133 · R 267
Races175
Changed party9
Unopposed50%87 races
Incumbents defeated22
Every district
D 133 · R 267
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-210 | David M. Perry · Margaret Ramsay (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HD-211 | Ralph Parker (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-212 | Paul G. Blacketor (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-213 | Susan Schwartz (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-214 | William Arnott (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-410 | Bruce C. Rounds (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-411 | C. Dana Christy · David M. Scanlan · John B. Hammond (R) | 10.7 | |
| HD-412 | Mary P. Chambers · Marion L. Copenhaver · Michael B. King · Stephen A. Crystal (D) | 4.5 | |
| HD-413 | Carl S. Adams · Howard C. Townsend · Karen O. Wadsworth · Lorine Walter · Pamela B. Bean (R) | 3.1 | |
| HD-510 | Lester R. Perham · Bartolo V. Prestipino · Emma B. Wheeler · Kenneth T. Wheeler (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-511 | Mary J. Shriver · A. Leslie Burns · Richard C. Stonner · Dorothy C. Bowers (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-512 | Ellenann Robinson (R) | 13.1 | |
| HD-513 | Dennis H. Fields · Robert N. Kelley · Guy R. Granger Jr. · Frederick G. Ahrens · Nancy G. Frank · Geraldine G. Watson (REP) | 0.7 | |
| HD-514 | Ellen C. Dube (D) | 3.3 | Flipped |
| HD-515 | Bonnie B. Packard (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-516 | Betty B. Hall (D) | 7.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-517 | Clyde S. Eaton (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-518 | Gladys M. Cox · Eliot B. Ware Jr. (R) | 16.2 | |
| HD-519 | David J. Alukonis · Joan A. Wagner · Doris R. Ducharme · Lionel R. Boucher · George H. Baker · G. Philip Rodgers (REP) | 0.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-520 | Ralph S. Boutwell · Michael E. Jones · Herbert D. Richardson Jr. (R) | 9.5 | |
| HD-521 | Leonard A. Smith (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-522 | Thomas P. Magee · Barbara J. Baldizar · Ronald F. Lanzara (REP) | 0.2 | |
| HD-523 | Stanley R. Vanderlosk · William H. Hatch · Kevin T. Mulligan (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HD-524 | Nancy M. Ford · Lionel Guilbert · Robert A. Daigle (REP) | 2.0 | |
| HD-525 | David E. Cote · Linda D. Long · Donnalee M. Lozeau (DEM) | 1.9 | |
| HD-526 | Chris Jacobson · Francis X. Donovan · Ann M. Derosier (D) | 4.9 | |
| HD-527 | Lucille T. Wood (R) | 10.4 | |
| HD-528 | Cecelia L. Winn · Peter J. Zis · Dolores R. Price (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-529 | Margaret L. McGlynn · Gabrielle V. Gagnon · Roland J. Lefebvre (D) | 1.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-530 | Maurice J. Levesque · Roland A. Morrissette · Wilfrid Boisvert (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-531 | Bonnie Lou McCann · Edmund M. Keefe · Debora B. Pignatelli (DEM) | 0.9 | |
| HD-532 | Robert A. Durant (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-533 | Leeanne S. Steiner · Marc A. Chretien · Barbara E. Arnold (R) | 11.1 | |
| HD-534 | Walter A. Stiles · Catherine A. Schneiderat · Richard F. Ahern (REP) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-535 | Theodore J. Cusson Sr. · Ann J. Bourque · Joanne A. Orourke (D) | 10.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-536 | Scott E. Green (R) | 18.1 | |
| HD-542 | Roland O. Beaupre · Jacquelyn Domaingue · Raymond C. Buckley II (REP) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-543 | Peter Burkush · Judy L. Pariseau · William J. Desrosiers Jr. (DEM) | 3.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-610 | Bronwyn L. Asplund · James A. Whittemore · Edith Austin (R) | 6.6 | |
| HD-611 | Eugene E. Pantzer (R) | 6.1 | |
| HD-612 | Robert M. Gilbreth (R) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| HD-613 | Mary Holmes (R) | 20.8 | |
| HD-614 | Burton W. Knight II (D) | 1.5 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-615 | Paul R. Fillion (R) | 15.2 | |
| HD-616 | Caroline L. Gross (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-617 | Mark E. Manus (R) | 5.1 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-618 | Mary Jane Wallner (D) | 29.3 | |
| HD-619 | Edward D. Philbrick (R) | 4.8 | |
| HD-620 | Gerald R. Smith (R) | 9.3 | |
| HD-621 | Elizabeth Hager · George M. West · Robert C. Hayes · James A. Chandler · Stephen N. Cahill (REP) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-710 | David A. Welch · Vincent J. Palumbo · John W. Flanders Sr. (R) | 5.9 | |
| HD-711 | William F. McCain · Gertrude I. Butler (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-712 | Elizabeth M. Popov · Patti Blanchette (D) | 20.2 | |
| HD-713 | Thomas U. Gage · Carl F. Anderson III · Arthur Tufts · Robert R. Blaisdell · Harold F. Magoon (R) | 2.8 | |
| HD-714 | Charles H. Felch Sr. · Robert R. Cushing Jr. (REP) | 0.3 | |
| HD-715 | James R. Rosencrantz (D) | 5.4 | |
| HD-716 | Ellen M. Cressy (D) | 13.8 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-717 | E. Jane Walker · Roberta C. Pevear · Ednapearl F. Parr · Beverly Hollingworth · Kenneth W. Malcolm (REP) | 1.5 | |
| HD-718 | Elizabeth A. Greene · Eugene Ritzo · Herbert R. Drake · Douglas E. Woodward (R) | 6.1 | |
| HD-719 | W. Douglas Scamman Jr. · Merino Romoli Jr. (R) | 9.0 | |
| HD-720 | Marilyn R. Campbell · Donna P. Sytek · Bert H. Ford · Elsie Vartanian · Beverly A. Gage · Michael H. Carpenito · Stephen W. Buco · Carol Nagel · Annette M. Cooke · Elmira F. Tilton (REP) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-721 | Patricia M. Skinner · Ada L. Mace (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-722 | Robert J. Scott Jr. (R) | 9.6 | |
| HD-723 | William P. Boucher · Betsy McKinney · Rowland Schmidtchen · Matthew M. Sochalski · Gordon R. Arnold · David B. Wright (R) | 3.0 | |
| HD-724 | Laura Pantelakos · Michael R. Weddle (D) | 13.5 | |
| HD-725 | John E. Splaine · Patricia Sanderson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-726 | Mary Ann N. Blanchard · Frances M. Gosselin (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-727 | Charles L. Vaughn · Cynthia A. McGovern (D) | 4.0 | |
| HD-728 | Robin P. Read Jr. · Joseph A. Macdonald · Lawrence A. Chase Jr. · Carolyn E. Hynes (DEM) | 2.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-810 | Ronald R. Laurion · Janet R. Pelley · Robert W. Jean · Patricia H. Foss · John B. Young (DEM) | 1.3 | |
| HD-811 | Robert J. Callaghan · Sandra B. Keans · Ralph L. Torr · James F. McManus Jr. · James Appleby (DEM) | 2.5 | |
| BELKNAP 1 | Steven Maviglio (D) | 11.4 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| BELKNAP 2 | Barbara B. Bowler (R) | 8.8 | |
| BELKNAP 3 | Kenneth A. Randall (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 4 | Russell M. Brown · Earle D. Hardy (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 5 | Robert S. Hawkins · Richard H. Campbell · Ralph W. Pearson · Raymond C. Wixson (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 6 | Matthew J. Locke · Milton G. Jensen (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 7 | Paul A. Golden (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 8 | Dean Dexter (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 9 | A. Donald Thurston (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 10 | Dennis R. Bolduc · Lawrence Richardson (REP) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 11 | Robert H. Turner (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 12 | Malcolm W. Harrington (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 13 | Robert G. Holbrook (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 1 | Gene G. Chandler (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 2 | Howard C. Dickinson · William J. Hounsell · Nanci A. Allard (R) | 12.9 | |
| CARROLL 3 | Robert B. Holmes (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 4 | Jack H. Schofield · Frank E. McIntire (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 5 | Gerard E. Powers · Howard N. Saunders (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 6 | Russell C. Chase · Kenneth J. Macdonald (R) | 26.8 | |
| CARROLL 7 | J. Lisbeth Olimpio (R) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| CHESHIRE 1 | Jeffrey C. Miller · David A. Young (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 2 | Richard J. Daschbach · Joann T. Morse (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 3 | Eugene W. Clark · Robert F. Delano · Kenneth A. Cole (REP) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| CHESHIRE 4 | Daniel Adams Eaton (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 5 | Irvin H. Gordon · William A. Riley (REP) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 6 | Alfred Sawyer · Richard A. Grodin (R) | 9.8 | |
| CHESHIRE 7 | William R. Matson (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 8 | Jesse F. Davis (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 9 | John Hunt (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 15 | Frederick T. Frink (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 16 | David M. Lamar (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 17 | Katherine D. Foster · Richard F. Doucette · David A. Pierce · Douglas A. Corrigan (DEM) | 1.3 | |
| COOS 1 | Beaton Marsh · Linwood N. Purrington (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 2 | Frederic A. Foss (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 3 | Josephine Mayhew (D) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 4 | Lynn C. Horton (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 5 | Harold Burns (R) | 3.1 | |
| COOS 6 | Thomas M. Brady (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 7 | Otto H. Oleson · Lawrence J. Guay (D) | 45.5 | |
| COOS 8 | Yvonne Coulombe · George Lemire · Catherine M. Brungot · Romeo J. Theriault · Dennis J. Kilbride · Harold D. Nelson (DEM) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| GRAFTON 1 | Henry F. Whitcomb · Kathleen Ward · Rita C. McAvoy (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 2 | Philip H. Weymouth (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 3 | Edward Densmore (D) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 4 | Roger Stewart (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 5 | Ezra B. Mann · Paul I. Lamott (R) | 23.4 | |
| GRAFTON 6 | Wayne D. King · George S. Lougee (DEM) | 23.8 | |
| GRAFTON 7 | Deborah Arnesen (D) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 8 | William J. Driscoll · W. Richardson Blair · Robert W. Dearborn (R) | 10.4 | |
| GRAFTON 9 | Edward J. Bennett (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 1 | Joseph M. Eaton · Irene Birch Cid (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 2 | Howard S. Humphrey Sr. (R) | 5.2 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 3 | Neal M. Kurk (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 4 | Roland A. Sallada (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 5 | Elizabeth A. Moore (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 6 | Alice Tirirrell Knight · Donna C. Kelly · Leslie C. Nixon · Karen K. McRae · Ruth E. Gage (REP) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 7 | Robert H. Grip · Marian R. Harrington · Charles F. Bass (R) | 13.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 8 | Howard F. Mason · Paul L. Drolet (R) | 7.0 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 9 | Elizabeth D. Lown · Carol H. Holden · Nancy L. Tarpley · Garret P. Cowenhoven (R) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 37 | Toni Pappas · Judy E. Reardon · Cornelius J. Keane (REP) | 2.2 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 38 | Daniel J. Healy · Stanley J. Zajdel · Chris E. Korcoulis (D) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 39 | Leona Dykstra · Lillian E. Soucy · Mary J. Sullivan (D) | 11.6 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 40 | Robert E. Murphy (D) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 41 | Patricia R. Dwyer · Fernand A. Genest · Charles J. Leclerc (D) | 6.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 44 | David L. Gelinas (D) | 25.7 | Flipped |
| HILLSBOROUGH 45 | William G. Dion · Irene Messier · Frank J. Reidy (DEM) | 5.0 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 46 | Paul R. Dionne · Rudolph G. Paquette · Roland M. Turgeon (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 47 | Richard G. Dupont · Gerard T. Desrochers · Maurice Routhier (D) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 48 | Jocelyne D. Champagne (D) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 1 | Elizabeth S. Bardsley · James D. Phelps (R) | 40.5 | |
| MERRIMACK 2 | William F. Kidder · Avis B. Nichols · Alf E. Jacobson (R) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 3 | Walter K. Robinson · Nancy C. Beaton (REP) | 1.6 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 4 | Rick A. Trombly · Elizabeth Millard (DEM) | 2.5 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 5 | Mary Ann Lewis · C. William Johnson · Peter M. Stio · Merton L. Mann Jr. (R) | 10.0 | |
| MERRIMACK 6 | Frank A. Tupper · Robert A. Lockwood · Leo W. Fraser (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 7 | Douglas E. Hall · Charles B. Yeaton · George E. Gordon III · Eleanor M. Anderson (REP) | 2.5 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 8 | Leo A. Provencal · Monte D. Rehlander (DEM) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 9 | David W. Hess · Laurent J. Boucher · Doris J. Riley (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 1 | Robert A. Johnson (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 2 | John L. Sherburne (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 3 | Russell G. Seward (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 4 | Roger C. King (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 5 | Henry E. Wells · Richardson D. Benton · Harry E. Flanders (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 6 | Jack Barnes Jr. · John Hoar Jr. · Calvin Warburton · Susan M. Joyce (REP) | 0.0 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 7 | Janet M. Conroy · Phyllis Katsakiores · Eunice M. Campbell · Benjamin C. Newell · George Katsakiores · Virginia K. Lovejoy · Maurice B. Macdonald · Robert Fesh (R) | 4.0 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 8 | Natalie S. Flanagan · Raymond H. Gourdeau (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 9 | Peter M. Simon · Alfred Ellyson · Annie Mae Schwaner · Richard L. Haynes (R) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 1 | Warren J. Swope · Timothy Bates (R) | 5.8 | |
| STRAFFORD 2 | Wayne Spear · Norman R. Proulx (R) | 3.9 | Incumbent lost |
| STRAFFORD 3 | George T. Musler · Douglas A. Lachance (REP) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 4 | W. Kent Martling · Francis E. Robinson · Charles H. Dingle · James C. Chamberlin · Janet Wall · Robert E. Wilson (REP) | 0.7 | |
| STRAFFORD 5 | Albert J. Dionne (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 6 | Ann M. Torr · Joe B. Parks · Robert L. Jones · Alec J. Koromilas · Paula J. Kinney (R) | 1.4 | |
| STRAFFORD 7 | William K. Kincaid · William H. McCann Jr. · Mary E. Bernard · Patricia A. Frew (D) | 6.2 | |
| STRAFFORD 8 | Anita Flynn · Edward J. Flynn · Roland A. Frechette · Martin P. Lussier (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 9 | James G. Casey Sr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 1 | Sara M. Townsend · Merle W. Schotanus (R) | 0.7 | |
| SULLIVAN 2 | Gordon B. Flint Sr. · Beverly T. Rodeschin · Fredrik Peyron (R) | 4.0 | |
| SULLIVAN 3 | Thomas A. Behrens (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 4 | Mildred S. Ingram (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 5 | Irene C. Domini · Eric N. Lindblade (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 6 | Richard H. Krueger · Roma A. Spaulding (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 7 | Carmine F. Damante · Robert J. Brodeur (D) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 8 | Kurt A. Normandin · Cynthia W. McKee (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 9 | Mable Cutting (R) | 4.1 |
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