1996 general · November 5, 1996
1996 New Hampshire House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every New Hampshire House of Representatives district in the 1996 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Republicans controlled the chamber · 400 seats
After the electionD 146 · R 254
Races195
Changed party13
Unopposed24%46 races
Incumbents defeated22
Every district
D 146 · R 254
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-210 | John Hunt (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-211 | Margaret E. Lynott · Myron S. Steere III (DEM) | 1.0 | |
| HD-212 | Barbara Hull Richardson (D) | 8.3 | |
| HD-213 | Katherine H. Metzger (R) | 7.4 | |
| HD-214 | Benjamin J. Depecol (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-410 | Marion L. Copenhaver · Sharon L. Nordgren · Robert H. Guest · Elsa M. Luker (D) | 3.7 | |
| HD-411 | Philip Cobbin · Phil Weber (R) | 33.6 | |
| HD-412 | Paul Mirski (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-413 | Clifton Below (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-414 | Ralph Akins · Channing T. Brown · Larry Guaraldi · Susan Almy (DEM) | 1.0 | |
| HD-510 | Linda T. Foster (D) | 17.3 | |
| HD-511 | Hal Melcher (D) | 14.7 | |
| HD-512 | Lauren Carney (R) | 17.6 | |
| HD-513 | Gary Daniels · Keith R. Herman · Charles W. Ferguson · Peter Leishman (R) | 4.8 | |
| HD-514 | William S. Belvin · Cynthia J. Dokmo · Carol H. Holden (R) | 11.1 | |
| HD-515 | Kathleen M. Flora · M. Virginia Burke · Maurice E. Goulet · Evelyn S. Letendre (R) | 6.8 | |
| HD-516 | Peter F. Bergin (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-517 | Leon Calawa Jr. · Loren Jean (R) | 9.5 | |
| HD-518 | Robert J. Lheureux · Robert N. Kelley · Robert H. Milligan · Peter L. Batula · Doris Macintyre · Robert W. Brundige · Dennis H. Fields · Tim McGough (R) | 0.4 | |
| HD-519 | Donald Carlson (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-520 | Betty B. Hall · Thomas I. Arnold Jr. (DEM) | 17.4 | |
| HD-521 | Jeffrey C. Macgillivray (R) | 14.5 | Flipped |
| HD-522 | Susan B. Durham · George W. Wright (R) | 17.1 | |
| HD-523 | Robert E. Clegg Jr. · David J. Alukonis · Stanley N. Searles · David S. Feng · Lars T. Christiansen · Rudy Lessard (R) | 1.0 | |
| HD-524 | James J. Fenton · Harold V. Lynde Jr. · Michael F. Marcinkowski (REP) | 0.1 | |
| HD-525 | Donald B. White (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-526 | Ruth Ginsburg · Suzan L. R. Franks · Jane Ohearn (DEM) | 4.3 | |
| HD-527 | Richard Larose · Robert S. Mercer · Geoffrey C. Briefs (R) | 3.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-528 | William H. Barry III · Sylvia A. Holley · Robert A. Daigle (DEM) | 1.9 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-529 | David E. Cote · Kevin J. Clemons · Alphons Haettenschwiller (D) | 3.4 | |
| HD-530 | Donnalee M. Lozeau · Philip M. Ackerman · Rita Gail Macauslan (REP) | 0.3 | |
| HD-531 | Jane Clemons · Roland J. Lefebvre · George D. Murch (DEM) | 0.2 | |
| HD-532 | Lori Cardin · Claudette R. Jean · Peter R. Cote (D) | 0.3 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-533 | Joseph A. Foster · Eileen P. Dawe · Joan Sullens (DEM) | 3.4 | |
| HD-534 | Mary Ellen Martin · Dawn C. Piteri · Paul W. Taylor (DEM) | 2.6 | |
| HD-535 | David B. Holt (R) | 3.2 | |
| HD-536 | A. Theresa Drabinowicz (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-542 | Ben Baroody · Robert E. Murphy · Bernard Luebkert (DEM) | 0.5 | |
| HD-543 | Paul J. Dwyer Sr. · Robert J. Haley · W. Thomas Ameen (D) | 0.8 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-610 | Mary Brown · Charles B. Yeaton (REP) | 10.3 | |
| HD-611 | David W. Hess · Terence R. Pfaff · Ray F. Langer (R) | 8.8 | |
| HD-612 | Gerard H. Lavoie · Gabriel Daneault · Kathleen A. Colburn · Thomas M. Colburn (REP) | 1.4 | |
| HD-613 | Martin Feuerstein · James A. Whittemore · Olive B. Morrill (R) | 5.9 | |
| HD-614 | Carol Burney (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| HD-615 | Jean Wallin (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-616 | Mary Stuart Gile (D) | 27.9 | |
| HD-617 | Gloria Seldin (D) | 14.1 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-618 | Elizabeth Hager (R) | 35.0 | |
| HD-619 | Carol Moore (D) | 37.8 | |
| HD-620 | Toni Crosby (D) | 28.2 | |
| HD-621 | Marilyn Anne Fraser (D) | 33.1 | |
| HD-622 | Katherine D. Rogers (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-623 | Tara G. Reardon (D) | 24.6 | Flipped |
| HD-624 | Miriam Dunn · Mary Jane Wallner · Elizabeth Hoadley (DEM) | 6.0 | |
| HD-710 | Jon P. Beaulieu (R) | 18.0 | |
| HD-711 | Ralph H. Millard (R) | 23.6 | |
| HD-712 | Marian E. Lovejoy · Franklin C. Bishop · Richard E. Dolan (R) | 6.9 | |
| HD-713 | Sandra K. Dowd · Patricia A. Dowling · Phyllis Katsakiores · George Katsakiores · John S. Langone · Kathryn Aranda · Bob Letourneau · Paul A. Gibbons · Robert Fesh · Norma A. Sabella · John P. Gleason (R) | 0.5 | |
| HD-714 | Natalie S. Flanagan (R) | 47.3 | |
| HD-715 | Neil J. Reardon · Joe Guthrie (R) | 28.0 | |
| HD-716 | Norman L. Major · Leroy S. Dube (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-717 | Mark A. Cegelis · Kevin L. Camm (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-718 | Marjorie Battles · David A. Welch · John W. Flanders Sr. · Ken Weyler (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-719 | Betsy Coes · Frank M. Schanda · Dennis F. Abbott (D) | 7.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-720 | Warren Henderson · Jackie Weatherspoon · John B. Heath · David A. Flanders · Arthur Tufts (REP) | 0.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-721 | Charles H. Felch Sr. · Patricia M. Okeefe · Benjamin E. Moore (REP) | 1.8 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-722 | Sheila T. Francoeur · Jane Kelley · Christie Jr. · Kenneth W. Malcolm · Robert R. Cushing Jr. (REP) | 0.2 | |
| HD-723 | Bruce L. Dearborn (R) | 19.2 | |
| HD-724 | Jane S. Langley · John J. McCarthy Jr. (R) | 7.4 | |
| HD-725 | George R. Rubin · Deborah L. Woods · John A. Simmons (R) | 5.3 | |
| HD-726 | Donna P. Sytek · Beverly A. Gage · Nancy Stickney · Ronald J. Belanger · Richard Noyes · Michael W. Downing · Stephanie K. Micklon · Richard T. Cooney · Bernard J. Raynowska (REP) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-727 | Mary E. Griffin · Janet S. Arndt · Debbie L. Morris (R) | 10.5 | |
| HD-728 | Arthur P. Klemm Jr. (R) | 20.0 | |
| HD-729 | Kevin H. Smith · Betsy McKinney · Gregory G. Carson · Vivian L. Dunham · Sherm Packard · Walter J. Mikowlski · Giovanni Verani (R) | 1.9 | |
| HD-730 | Laura Pantelakos (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-810 | Michael S. Rollo (D) | 6.1 | Flipped |
| HD-811 | Kathleen N. Taylor · William V. Knowles · Roland E. Hemon · William H. McCann Jr. (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-812 | Marsha L. Pelletier · Arthur J. Pelletier · Ann M. Torr · Franklin Torr (DEM) | 0.5 | |
| HD-813 | Joseph R. Twardus (D) | 2.0 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| HD-814 | Dana S. Hilliard · Clair A. Snyder · Roger R. Berube · Francis C. Vincent (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-815 | Frank D. Callaghan · Rose Marie Rogers (D) | 28.5 | |
| HD-816 | Sandra B. Keans · William P. Brennan (REP) | 6.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-817 | Julie M. Brown · George F. Brown (REP) | 0.4 | |
| BELKNAP 1 | David M. Lawton · Thomas J. Boriso (R) | 11.3 | |
| BELKNAP 2 | Thomas B. Salatiello · Robert J. Laflam (DEM) | 2.2 | Incumbent lost |
| BELKNAP 3 | James P. Pilliod · John H. Thomas (R) | 10.5 | |
| BELKNAP 4 | George F. Hurt · Charles L. Clark (R) | 10.7 | |
| BELKNAP 5 | Alice S. Ziegra · Paul A. Golden · Robert K. Boyce (R) | 8.1 | |
| BELKNAP 6 | Gordon E. Bartlett (R) | 18.4 | |
| BELKNAP 7 | Robert G. Holbrook · Robert Lawton · Thomas E. P. Rice Jr. · Ralph J. Rosen · John A. Veazey · Robert H. Turner (R) | 0.4 | |
| CARROLL 1 | Gene G. Chandler (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 2 | Kipp A. Cooper · Howard C. Dickinson (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 3 | Henry P. Mock (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 4 | Donald R. Philbrick (R) | 21.0 | |
| CARROLL 5 | L. Randy Lyman · David L. Babson Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 6 | Joseph D. Kenney (R) | Unopposed | |
| CARROLL 7 | Kenneth J. Macdonald (R) | 25.0 | |
| CARROLL 8 | Jeb Bradley (R) | 80.4 | |
| CARROLL 9 | Betsey L. Patten (R) | 47.5 | |
| CARROLL 10 | Robert W. Foster · Godfrey Howard (R) | 9.1 | |
| CHESHIRE 1 | Paul A. McGuirk (D) | 70.3 | |
| CHESHIRE 2 | John M. Pratt · Sarah K. Bonneau (D) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| CHESHIRE 3 | Wanda G. McNamara (R) | 1.8 | |
| CHESHIRE 4 | John A. Vogl (D) | 15.3 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| CHESHIRE 5 | Irene A. Pratt (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 6 | Edwin O. Smith (R) | 10.5 | |
| CHESHIRE 7 | William A. Riley (D) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 8 | Dan Burnham · Stephen G. Avery (DEM) | 0.9 | |
| CHESHIRE 9 | Joseph P. Manning · H. Charles Royce (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 15 | Ronald G. Russell (D) | 18.5 | |
| CHESHIRE 16 | David R. Meader (D) | 2.6 | |
| CHESHIRE 17 | John J. Oconnell (D) | 4.9 | |
| CHESHIRE 18 | Timothy N. Robertson (D) | 12.2 | |
| CHESHIRE 19 | Margaret A. Lynch · Richard L. Champagne · Richard F. Doucette (D) | 3.3 | |
| COOS 1 | Perley E. Davis · Gerald P. Merrill (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 2 | Wayne Moynihan (D) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 3 | Lynn C. Horton (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 4 | Leighton Pratt (R) | Unopposed | |
| COOS 5 | Tholl Jr. (R) | 21.7 | |
| COOS 6 | Lawrence J. Guay · Paula E. Bradley (REP) | 5.0 | |
| COOS 7 | Marie C. Hawkinson · Edgar Mears · Paul E. Sainthilaire · Henry W. Coulombe · Yvonne Coulombe (DEM) | 0.3 | |
| GRAFTON 1 | Stephanie Eaton · Richard L. Hill · Steven J. Connolly (R) | 4.7 | |
| GRAFTON 2 | Richard T. Trelfa (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 3 | Bill Williams (R) | 19.8 | |
| GRAFTON 4 | Bonnie Ham (R) | 32.0 | |
| GRAFTON 5 | Douglass P. Teschner · Paul I. Lamott (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 6 | Sid Lovett · Paul Kenneth Chase Jr. (DEM) | 4.7 | |
| GRAFTON 7 | Harry Hinman · Allen K. Macneil (R) | 2.6 | |
| GRAFTON 8 | William R. Phinney · John Root (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 9 | John R. M. Alger (R) | 70.9 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 1 | W. Gordon Allen (D) | 27.0 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 2 | Herbert R. Hansen (R) | 12.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 3 | Maxwell D. Sargent (R) | 10.8 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 4 | Susan J. Clay (R) | 49.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 5 | Neal M. Kurk · Paul R. Perkins (R) | 19.3 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 6 | O. Alan Thulander (R) | 26.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 7 | Lawrence A. Emerton Sr. · Robert L. Wheeler · Karen K. McRae · Bruce F. Hunter · Ruth E. Gage (REP) | 0.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 8 | Andrew R. Peterson · Merton S. Dyer (R) | 5.3 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 9 | Eleanor H. Amidon (R) | 3.9 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 37 | David T. Mittelman · Nick Hart · David Boutin (R) | 1.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 38 | Winston H. McCarty · William M. Golding · Michael Morello (R) | 0.2 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 39 | Thomas Orourke · Carol Ann Williams · Peter F. Leonard (D) | 3.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 40 | Leo P. Pepino · Lionel W. Johnson · Jay T. White (REP) | 0.7 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 41 | Daniel J. Healy · William J. McCarthy · James A. McDonald Sr. (D) | 6.1 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 44 | Raymond C. Buckley II · Steve Vaillancourt · Frances L. Riley (DEM) | 0.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 45 | William J. Desrosiers Jr. · Gerald O. Gosselin · Michael Kelly (REP) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 46 | Irene Messier · Lou Dallesandro · Frank J. Reidy (REP) | 6.0 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 47 | Roland M. Turgeon · Robert Paul Asselin · Shannon Lee Bernier (D) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 48 | Donald Welch · Bob Chabot · Eugene L. Gagnon (DEM) | 3.1 | |
| MERRIMACK 1 | William E. Leber · Earle W. Chandler (R) | 2.4 | |
| MERRIMACK 2 | Alf E. Jacobson · Avis B. Nichols · Peter Crowell (R) | 12.7 | |
| MERRIMACK 3 | Barbara Conner French · Bernie Lamach (DEM) | 2.8 | |
| MERRIMACK 4 | Kenneth R. Marshall (R) | 10.6 | Flipped |
| MERRIMACK 5 | Michael D. Whalley (R) | 34.4 | |
| MERRIMACK 6 | Derek Owen (D) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 7 | Eric Anderson · Stephen T. Destefano · Patricia Krueger (REP) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 8 | Gerard Saintcyr (D) | Unopposed | |
| MERRIMACK 9 | Roy D. Maxfield · David E. Larrabee Sr. · Robert A. Lockwood · Stephen J. Adams (R) | 1.0 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 1 | Robert A. Johnson (R) | 24.3 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 2 | Margaret A. Case (R) | 24.7 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 3 | Ronald Nowe (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 4 | Robert K. Dodge (R) | 23.8 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 5 | C. Donald Stritch (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 6 | Rudolph J. Kobel (R) | 20.8 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 7 | Joseph E. Stone (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 8 | Rebecca C. Hutchinson (D) | 10.1 | FlippedIncumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 9 | Patricia L. Cote · Thomas A. Varrell (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 31 | Terie Norelli (D) | 42.5 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 32 | Cecelia D. Kane (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| ROCKINGHAM 33 | Joseph G. Frechette · Anthony Syracusa (REP) | 2.4 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 34 | Mary Ann N. Blanchard (D) | 24.2 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 35 | Charles L. Vaughn · Cynthia A. McGovern (D) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 36 | Martha Fuller Clark (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 1 | David A. Bickford (R) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 2 | Robert E. McKinley (R) | 0.8 | |
| STRAFFORD 3 | William Tsiros · Henry P. Sullivan (REP) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 4 | Dennis P. Vachon (D) | 16.3 | Flipped |
| STRAFFORD 5 | Barbara L. Spear (R) | 23.6 | |
| STRAFFORD 6 | George T. Musler · Marlene M. Dechane (REP) | 8.4 | |
| STRAFFORD 7 | Naida Kaen (R) | 22.7 | Flipped |
| STRAFFORD 8 | Amanda A. Merrill · Marjorie Smith · Iris W. Estabrook · Deborah Foote Merritt (D) | 4.3 | |
| STRAFFORD 9 | Janet Wall (D) | Unopposed | |
| STRAFFORD 18 | Patricia C. Dunlap · Raymond A. Lundborn (REP) | 2.6 | |
| STRAFFORD 19 | Anne Grassie · Ralph L. Torr (DEM) | 9.5 | |
| SULLIVAN 1 | Peter Hoe Burling (D) | 50.7 | |
| SULLIVAN 2 | Richard C. Leone (R) | 29.0 | |
| SULLIVAN 3 | Merle W. Schotanus (R) | 25.9 | |
| SULLIVAN 4 | Gordon B. Flint Sr. · Celestine Wiggins · David Kibbey (REP) | 2.9 | Incumbent lost |
| SULLIVAN 5 | Rudolf Adler (R) | 10.3 | |
| SULLIVAN 6 | Brenda L. Ferland (D) | 4.8 | |
| SULLIVAN 7 | Eric N. Lindblade (R) | 0.5 | |
| SULLIVAN 8 | John Cloutier (D) | Unopposed | Flipped |
| SULLIVAN 9 | Richard H. Krueger (R) | 12.6 | |
| SULLIVAN 10 | David C. Allison (D) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 11 | Lorraine R. Palmer · Tom Donovan (D) | 3.9 |
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