1988 general · November 8, 1988
1988 New Hampshire House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every New Hampshire House of Representatives district in the 1988 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Republicans controlled the chamber · 400 seats
After the electionD 118 · R 282
Races175
Changed party11
Unopposed34%59 races
Incumbents defeated28
Every district
D 118 · R 282
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-210 | Stacey W. Cole · David M. Perry (R) | 15.2 | |
| HD-211 | Katherine H. Metzger (R) | 35.8 | |
| HD-212 | Paul G. Blacketor (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-213 | Susan Schwartz Spear (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-214 | Douglas E. Hill (R) | 2.9 | |
| HD-410 | Bruce C. Rounds (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-411 | David M. Scanlan · C. Dana Christy · William B. Rose (R) | 10.1 | |
| HD-412 | Mary P. Chambers · Sharon L. Nordgren · Marion L. Copenhaver · Robert H. Guest (D) | 5.3 | |
| HD-413 | Pamela B. Bean · Karen O. Wadsworth · Howard C. Townsend · Carl S. Adams · Channing T. Brown (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-510 | Lester R. Perham · Bartolo V. Prestipino · David K. Wheeler · Vivian Barry (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-511 | Dorothy C. Bowers · Barbara A. Upton · Maurice E. Goulet · John F. Klose (R) | 10.7 | |
| HD-512 | Ellenann Robinson (R) | 3.4 | |
| HD-513 | Dennis H. Fields · Frederick G. Ahrens · Emma M. Dodge · Robert N. Kelley · Guy R. Granger Jr. · Nancy G. Frank (REP) | 1.2 | |
| HD-514 | Ellen C. Dube (D) | 2.3 | |
| HD-515 | Bonnie B. Packard (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-516 | Betty B. Hall (D) | 2.4 | |
| HD-517 | Clyde S. Eaton (R) | 21.1 | |
| HD-518 | George W. Wright · Gladys M. Cox (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-519 | David J. Alukonis · Shawn N. Jasper · Lionel R. Boucher · Stanley N. Searles · G. Philip Rodgers · Willard N. Young (R) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-520 | Michael E. Jones · Patrick Culbert · Norman B. Lawrence (R) | 0.2 | |
| HD-521 | Leonard A. Smith (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-522 | Paul M. Tyree · Barbara J. Baldizar · Robert C. Bicknell (REP) | 0.7 | |
| HD-523 | William H. Hatch · Alice B. Record · Stanley R. Vanderlosk (R) | 6.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-524 | Robert A. Daigle · Nancy M. Ford · Lionel Guilbert (DEM) | 4.3 | |
| HD-525 | Donnalee M. Lozeau · Susan N. Harlan · Linda D. Long (REP) | 0.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-526 | Lucien G. Rousseau Jr. · Francis X. Donovan · Ann M. Derosier (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-527 | Dan Toomey (D) | 2.6 | Flipped |
| HD-528 | Steve Kuchinski · Romeo W. Jean · Hector J. Hidalgo (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-529 | James E. McDowell · Roland J. Lefebvre · Gabrielle V. Gagnon (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-530 | Adam C. Gureckis Sr. · Roland A. Morrissette · Ronald P. Sage Jr. (REP) | Unopposed | |
| HD-531 | Bonnie Lou McCann · Edmund M. Keefe · Debora B. Pignatelli (DEM) | 3.5 | |
| HD-532 | A. Theresa Drabinowicz (D) | 2.8 | |
| HD-533 | Leeanne S. Steiner · Carolyn L. Brady · Linda S. Wihby (R) | 4.7 | |
| HD-534 | Catherine A. Schneiderat · Walter A. Stiles · Christine A. Biondi (R) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-535 | Ann J. Bourque · Theodora P. Nardi · Joanne A. Orourke (D) | 3.9 | |
| HD-536 | Scott E. Green (R) | 16.2 | |
| HD-542 | Jacquelyn Domaingue · Roland O. Beaupre · John A. King (REP) | 1.3 | |
| HD-543 | Peter Burkush · William J. Desrosiers Jr. · Janet G. Barry (DEM) | 2.7 | |
| HD-610 | James A. Whittemore · Bronwyn L. Asplund · Richard W. Tolpin (R) | 11.1 | |
| HD-611 | Eugene E. Pantzer (R) | 31.7 | |
| HD-612 | Robert M. Gilbreth (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-613 | Mary Holmes (R) | 34.3 | |
| HD-614 | Michael Hill (R) | 24.1 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-615 | Paul R. Fillion (R) | 3.6 | |
| HD-616 | Caroline L. Gross (R) | 34.4 | |
| HD-617 | Mark E. Manus (R) | 4.9 | |
| HD-618 | Bert Teague (R) | 22.3 | Flipped |
| HD-619 | Jennifer G. Soldati (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| HD-620 | Gerald R. Smith (R) | 39.9 | |
| HD-621 | Elizabeth Hager · Robert C. Hayes · George M. West · Miriam Dunn · Mary Jane Wallner (REP) | 0.9 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-710 | David A. Welch · Vincent J. Palumbo · John W. Flanders Sr. (R) | 10.2 | |
| HD-711 | William F. McCain · Patricia L. Cote (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-712 | Elizabeth M. Popov · Albert Caswell Jr. (D) | 16.4 | |
| HD-713 | Thaddeus E. Klemarczyk · Thomas U. Gage · Arthur Tufts · Carl F. Anderson III · Harold F. Magoon (R) | 4.1 | |
| HD-714 | Charles H. Felch Sr. · Jeffrey M. Brown (R) | 2.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-715 | James R. Rosencrantz (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-716 | Frank J. Palazzo Sr. (R) | 0.9 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-717 | Barbara R. Remick · Ednapearl F. Parr · Kenneth W. Malcolm · Lewis W. Brown · Beverly Hollingworth (REP) | 0.7 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-718 | Elizabeth A. Greene · Eugene Ritzo · Herbert R. Drake · John J. McCarthy Jr. (R) | 1.7 | |
| HD-719 | Robert F. Parsons · W. Douglas Scamman Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-720 | Marilyn R. Campbell · Donna P. Sytek · Stephen W. Buco · Beverly A. Gage · Bert H. Ford · Elsie Vartanian · Annette M. Cooke · Donald L. Roulston · Bernard J. Raynowska · Stephanie K. Micklon (R) | 0.7 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-721 | Patricia M. Skinner · Ada L. Mace (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-722 | Arthur P. Klemm Jr. (R) | 17.1 | |
| HD-723 | Betsy McKinney · William P. Boucher · Matthew M. Sochalski · Vicki Stachowske · David B. Wright · Rowland Schmidtchen (R) | 3.4 | |
| HD-724 | Laura Pantelakos · Michael R. Weddle (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-725 | John E. Splaine · Patricia Sanderson (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-726 | Mary Ann N. Blanchard · Juanita L. Bell (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-727 | Charles L. Vaughn · Cynthia A. McGovern (D) | 7.6 | |
| HD-728 | Lawrence A. Chase Jr. · Carolyn E. Hynes · Cecelia D. Kane · Joseph A. Macdonald (REP) | 0.2 | |
| HD-810 | John Obrien · Patricia H. Foss · John B. Young · Drucilla Bickford · Janet R. Pelley (DEM) | 0.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-811 | James Appleby · Sandra B. Keans · Ralph L. Torr · Julie M. Brown · Robert J. Callaghan (REP) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| BELKNAP 1 | Steven Maviglio (D) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 2 | Kenneth A. Randall (R) | 20.4 | |
| BELKNAP 3 | James J. White (R) | 16.7 | |
| BELKNAP 4 | Earle D. Hardy · Charles C. Vogler (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 5 | Richard H. Campbell · Robert S. Hawkins · Richard A. Ballou · Ralph W. Pearson (R) | 7.1 | |
| BELKNAP 6 | Alice S. Ziegra · Matthew J. Locke (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 7 | Paul A. Golden (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 8 | Thomas E. P. Rice Jr. (R) | 8.5 | |
| BELKNAP 9 | Ralph J. Rosen (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 10 | Lawrence Richardson · Dennis R. Bolduc (DEM) | 12.4 | |
| BELKNAP 11 | Robert H. Turner (R) | 37.2 | |
| BELKNAP 12 | Kenneth P. Peters (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 13 | Robert G. Holbrook (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 1 | Gene G. Chandler (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 2 | Arthur G. Dodge Jr. · Howard C. Dickinson · Nanci A. Allard (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 3 | Robert J. Daly Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 4 | Robert W. Foster · Allen R. Wiggin (R) | 13.0 | |
| CARROLL 5 | Gerard E. Powers · Howard N. Saunders (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 6 | Russell C. Chase · Kenneth J. Macdonald (R) | 25.0 | |
| CARROLL 7 | J. Lisbeth Olimpio (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 1 | David A. Young · Jeffrey C. Miller (R) | 12.6 | |
| CHESHIRE 2 | Joann T. Morse · John J. Laurent (R) | 13.9 | Incumbent lost |
| CHESHIRE 3 | Robert F. Delano · Irene A. Pratt · Kenneth A. Cole (REP) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| CHESHIRE 4 | Daniel Adams Eaton (D) | 4.7 | |
| CHESHIRE 5 | Irvin H. Gordon · Stephen G. Avery (R) | 1.5 | Incumbent lost |
| CHESHIRE 6 | Alfred Sawyer · Richard A. Grodin (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 7 | William R. Matson (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 8 | Donald O. Crutchley (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 9 | John Hunt (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 15 | Gertrude B. Pearson (R) | 8.3 | Flipped |
| CHESHIRE 16 | David M. Lamar (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 17 | Katherine D. Foster · Richard F. Doucette · Robert E. Barber Jr. · David A. Pierce (DEM) | 0.9 | Incumbent lost |
| COOS 1 | Beaton Marsh · Gerald P. Merrill (R) | 31.3 | |
| COOS 2 | C. Fitzgerald Buckley III (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 3 | Josephine Mayhew (D) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 4 | Lynn C. Horton (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 5 | Harold Burns (R) | 55.4 | |
| COOS 6 | Jeffrey R. Woodburn (D) | 6.6 | Flipped |
| COOS 7 | Lawrence J. Guay · Otto H. Oleson (D) | 12.5 | |
| COOS 8 | Harold D. Nelson · Catherine M. Brungot · Dennis J. Kilbride · Romeo J. Theriault · George Lemire · Robert E. Dumont (DEM) | 0.1 | |
| GRAFTON 1 | Kathleen Ward · Richard L. Hill · Henry F. Whitcomb (R) | 4.9 | |
| GRAFTON 2 | Philip H. Weymouth (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 3 | Edward Densmore (D) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 4 | Roger Stewart (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 5 | Douglass P. Teschner · Paul I. Lamott (R) | 26.7 | |
| GRAFTON 6 | J. Keith Markley · Larry E. Eno (R) | 30.8 | |
| GRAFTON 7 | Deborah Arnesen (D) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 8 | William J. Driscoll · Shirley M. Bennett · David O. Dow (R) | 5.3 | |
| GRAFTON 9 | Nils H. Larson Jr. (R) | 9.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 1 | Ervin R. Lachut · David D. Hultgren (R) | 11.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 2 | Larry G. Elliott (R) | 10.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 3 | Neal M. Kurk (R) | 34.8 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 4 | Roland A. Sallada (R) | 41.6 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 5 | Elizabeth A. Moore (R) | 46.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 6 | Lawrence A. Emerton Sr. · Karen K. McRae · Alice Tirirrell Knight · Daniel P. McNerney · Bruce F. Hunter (R) | 1.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 7 | Merton S. Dyer · Robert H. Grip · Eleanor H. Amidon (R) | 4.5 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 8 | Howard F. Mason · Paul L. Drolet (R) | 15.0 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 9 | Garret P. Cowenhoven · Nancy L. Tarpley · Elizabeth D. Lown · Carol H. Holden (R) | 9.8 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 37 | Toni Pappas · Leo P. Pepino · Lionel W. Johnson (REP) | 1.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 38 | William M. Barry · Daniel J. Healy · Daniel M. McCarthy (D) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 39 | Leona Dykstra · Lillian E. Soucy · Herbert N. Foote Sr. (DEM) | 2.6 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 40 | Robert E. Murphy (D) | Unopposed | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 41 | Patricia R. Dwyer · Fernand A. Genest · Giles R. Provost (DEM) | 0.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 44 | Frances L. Riley (R) | 16.8 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 45 | Mary Jenkins · Frank J. Reidy · Irene Messier (DEM) | 9.2 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 46 | Paul R. Dionne · Rachel I. Raciot · Roland M. Turgeon (DEM) | 0.9 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 47 | Lillian I. Rheault · Gloria W. Kress · Gerard T. Desrochers (REP) | 1.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 48 | Robert O. Ouellette (R) | 13.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 1 | James D. Phelps · Elizabeth S. Bardsley (R) | 15.6 | |
| MERRIMACK 2 | William F. Kidder · Avis B. Nichols · Alf E. Jacobson (R) | 13.1 | |
| MERRIMACK 3 | Nancy C. Beaton · Thea G. Braiterman (D) | 4.3 | |
| MERRIMACK 4 | Rick A. Trombly · Elizabeth Millard (DEM) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 5 | Susan D. Carter · Mary Ann Lewis · C. William Johnson · Peter M. Stio (R) | 4.2 | |
| MERRIMACK 6 | Robert A. Lockwood · Richard A. Barberia · Leo W. Fraser (R) | 3.5 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 7 | Patricia A. Fair · Douglas E. Hall · Eleanor M. Anderson · Randall F. Shaw (DEM) | 2.0 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 8 | Gabriel Daneault · Leo A. Provencal (D) | 1.8 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 9 | Lowell D. Apple · Terence R. Pfaff · Laurent J. Boucher (R) | 13.9 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 1 | Robert A. Johnson (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 2 | John L. Sherburne (R) | 32.6 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 3 | Russell G. Seward (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 4 | Roger C. King (R) | 29.2 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 5 | Henry E. Wells · Richardson D. Benton · Harry E. Flanders (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 6 | John Hoar Jr. · Douglas G. Forsythe · Kathleen M. Hoelzel · Calvin Warburton (R) | 2.8 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 7 | Janet M. Conroy · Phyllis Katsakiores · George Katsakiores · Eunice M. Campbell · Nancy W. Mackinnon · Virginia K. Lovejoy · Robert Fesh · Maurice B. Macdonald (R) | 1.6 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 8 | Natalie S. Flanagan · Raymond H. Gourdeau (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 9 | Peter M. Simon · Merilyn P. Senter · Richard L. Haynes · Leroy S. Dube (R) | 8.9 | |
| STRAFFORD 1 | Warren J. Swope · Glenn W. Stewart (R) | 8.1 | |
| STRAFFORD 2 | Henry P. Sullivan · William Tsiros (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 3 | George T. Musler · Douglas A. Lachance (REP) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 4 | Janet Wall · Katherine Wells Wheeler · Wayne M. Burton · Amanda A. Merrill · Leo J. Spencer · W. Kent Martling (DEM) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| STRAFFORD 5 | Albert J. Dionne (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 6 | Ann M. Torr · Joe B. Parks · Paula J. Kinney · Thomas E. Scharff · Robert E. Marston (REP) | 0.2 | |
| STRAFFORD 7 | William H. McCann Jr. · William K. Kincaid · Mary E. Bernard · Gary R. Gilmore (D) | 0.7 | |
| STRAFFORD 8 | Roland A. Frechette · Anita Flynn · Francis C. Vincent · Edward J. Flynn (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 9 | John H. Meserve (R) | 9.4 | Flipped |
| SULLIVAN 1 | Merle W. Schotanus · Peter Hoe Burling (REP) | 2.1 | |
| SULLIVAN 2 | Gordon B. Flint Sr. · Beverly T. Rodeschin · Fredrik Peyron (R) | 6.1 | |
| SULLIVAN 3 | Thomas A. Behrens (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 4 | Carol M. Stamatakis (D) | 2.7 | Flipped |
| SULLIVAN 5 | Irene C. Domini · Keith L. Hinrichsen (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 6 | Richard H. Krueger · John A. Middleton (R) | 6.4 | |
| SULLIVAN 7 | Ted Lucier · Robert J. Brodeur (D) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 8 | Kurt A. Normandin · Jane A. Harland (D) | 0.4 | |
| SULLIVAN 9 | Kenneth M. Macaskill (R) | 8.3 |
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