2002 general · November 5, 2002
2002 New Hampshire House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every New Hampshire House of Representatives district in the 2002 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
Races88
Changed party0
Unopposed12%11 races
Incumbents defeated33
Every district
D 118 · R 282
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| HD-410 | Edward Densmore (D) | Unopposed | |
| HD-411 | Edmond Gionet · Gregory M. Sorg (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-412 | Bonnie Ham (R) | Unopposed | |
| HD-413 | Robert J. Giuda · Paul Ingbretson (R) | 13.9 | |
| HD-414 | John R. M. Alger · Robert Barker (R) | 16.1 | |
| HD-415 | Debra A. Naro · Mary R. Cooney (D) | 4.0 | Incumbent lost |
| HD-416 | Burton W. Williams · Andrew L. Dorsett · Margie Maybeck (R) | 5.3 | |
| HD-542 | Edward R. Leach · Larry G. Elliott · Kimberley Dionne (R) | 6.4 | |
| HD-543 | Jarvis M. Adams IV · Lori J. Obrien (R) | 8.2 | |
| BELKNAP 29 | Ahern Jr. · Robert J. Laflam · Francine Wendelboe (R) | 4.8 | |
| BELKNAP 30 | James Fitzgerald · Robert G. Holbrook · Don Flanders · David M. Lawton · Stephen H. Nedeau · Glenn E. Dewhirst · Thomas E. P. Rice Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| BELKNAP 31 | James P. Pilliod · Janet F. Allen · Gordon E. Bartlett · Laurie J. Boyce · David H. Russell · Charles L. Clark · John H. Thomas · Michael D. Whalley (R) | 2.0 | |
| CARROLL 4 | Carolyn Brown · Gene G. Chandler · Howard C. Dickinson · Henry P. Mock (R) | 7.1 | |
| CARROLL 5 | Donald R. Philbrick (R) | 17.6 | |
| CARROLL 6 | Mark McConkey · David L. Babson Jr. · Harry C. Merrow (R) | 3.4 | |
| CARROLL 7 | Betsey L. Patten · Mark S. Derby · Paul Hatch · Stanley E. Stevens (R) | 12.2 | |
| CARROLL 8 | J. Lisbeth Olimpio · Bettie Kenney (R) | Unopposed | |
| CHESHIRE 24 | John M. Pratt · Daniel Adams Eaton · John J. Laurent · Bob Batchelder (DEM) | 0.2 | |
| CHESHIRE 25 | Peter S. Espiefs · Timothy N. Robertson · Charles Weed · J. Timothy Dunn · Pamela Russell Slack · David R. Meader · Douglas K. Fish (DEM) | 0.0 | |
| CHESHIRE 26 | Edwin O. Smith · Irene A. Pratt · Henry A. L. Parkhurst · McKim W. Mitchell · Barbara Hull Richardson (REP) | 0.5 | |
| CHESHIRE 27 | Peter H. Allen · Anna Z. Tilton · Judson K. Dexter · George J. Liebl (DEM) | 0.8 | |
| CHESHIRE 28 | Joseph P. Manning · John Hunt · H. Charles Royce · Amy Webber (REP) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| COOS 1 | Eric G. Stohl · Frederick W. King Sr. (R) | 39.3 | |
| COOS 2 | Herb Richardson · Mark A. Brady · Lawrence J. Guay · Leighton Pratt · Tholl Jr. (R) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| COOS 3 | Robert L. Theberge · David Woodward · Edgar Mears · Richard L. Poulin (DEM) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| GRAFTON 9 | Stephanie Eaton · G. Mike Gilman (R) | Unopposed | |
| GRAFTON 17 | Sharon L. Nordgren · Nancy Scovner · Hilda Weyl Sokol · Bernard Benn · Ruth Bleyler · Pete Solomon · Estelle Diamond (D) | 2.1 | Incumbent lost |
| GRAFTON 18 | Lee Hammond · Susan Almy · Terri C. Dudley · Ralph Akins (DEM) | 0.9 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 44 | Annemarie Irwin · Mark Carter · Lawrence Ross · Donald Carlson (DEM) | 2.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 45 | Pamela D. Coughlin · Timothy J. Allen · Pierre W. Bruno · Margaret D. Hallyburton (R) | 0.5 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 46 | Harry M. Haytayan Jr. · Carolyn M. Gargasz · Richard B. Drisko · Thomas I. Arnold Jr. (R) | 3.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 47 | Cynthia J. Dokmo · Peter F. Bergin · Robert H. Rowe · Paul D. Spiess · Stephen B. Stepanek · Ryan Hansen · Lee G. Slocum · James E. Wheeler (R) | 0.9 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 48 | Lawrence A. Emerton Sr. · Karen K. McRae · Randolph Holden · Neal M. Kurk · Robert L. Wheeler · Richard E. Fletcher · Gary S. Hopper · Bruce F. Hunter (R) | 2.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 49 | Marc Pappas · Carlos Gonzalez · Bob Chabot · Sandra Reeves · William Beaton · Christopher C. Pappas (REP) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 50 | Irene Messier · Kenneth Cail · Saghir A. Tahir · James W. Craig · Barbara J. Hagan · William Clayton · Charles F. Laflamme · Frank C. Guinta · Peter M. Sullivan · Paul A. Brassard · Gary C. Greenberg (REP) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 51 | Leo P. Pepino · Kathleen Souza · Lionel W. Johnson (REP) | 0.9 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 52 | Francis Sullivan · Alice McDonoughwallace · Eric Palangas (D) | 1.6 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 53 | Vivian J. Desmarais · Jeffrey Carter · Robert J. Haley (REP) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 54 | William Infantine · Ben Baroody · Bernard Luebkert (REP) | 0.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 55 | Barbara Shaw · Janet G. Barry · Maurice L. Pilotte (DEM) | 0.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 56 | Steve Vaillancourt · Jeffrey A. Sullivan · Raymond C. Buckley II (REP) | 0.6 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 57 | Edward P. Moran Jr. · Maurice E. Goulet · John A. Graham · Ken Hawkins · Michael J. Scanlon · J. Edward Kerns (R) | 7.3 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 58 | Peter L. Batula · Robert J. Lheureux · Jack Balcom · D. L. Christensen · Robert W. Brundige · Robert H. Milligan · Dennis H. Fields · Charles Q. Hall · Maureen Mooney · Peyton Hinkle · John M. Gibson (R) | 0.8 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 59 | Elenore Crane · Michael A. Balboni · Robert S. Mercer (R) | 5.6 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 60 | Nancy M. Ford · Paul Harrington · Lori A. Movsesian (REP) | 0.4 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 61 | Paul G. Laflamme Jr. · Claire B. McHugh · Henry W. McElroy Jr. (R) | 0.8 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 62 | David E. Cote · Cynthia P. Sweeney · Jane Clemons · Mary J. Gorman · Roland J. Lefebvre · Debra Kudalis (D) | 0.4 | |
| HILLSBOROUGH 63 | Nelson S. Allan · William E. Mosher · Angeline A. Kopka (REP) | 0.7 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 64 | Christine Furman · Pamela G. Price · Lawrence A. Artz (R) | 1.9 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 65 | Bette R. Lasky · Claudette R. Jean · Joan H. Schulze · Peter R. Cote · Chris Konys · Albert C. Cernota (DEM) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| HILLSBOROUGH 66 | Jeanguy J. Bergeron · Joan C. Tate · Peter R. Goyette Jr. · Lars T. Christiansen · Rudy Lessard · Shawn N. Jasper · David M. Bouchard · Chris Malloy · James Lawrence · David L. Buhlman · Russell T. Ober III (REP) | 0.3 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 32 | Alf E. Jacobson · Tom F. McCormick (R) | 2.6 | |
| MERRIMACK 33 | Randy J. Perkins · Dennis Reed · Robert O. Ouellette (DEM) | 4.5 | |
| MERRIMACK 34 | Barbara Conner French · David P. Currier · Christine C. Hamm · J. D. Colcord · Derek Owen · Richard E. Kennedy (DEM) | 0.0 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 35 | Roy D. Maxfield · Priscilla Parmenter Lockwood · William E. Leber · Christopher H. Dunne · Claire D. Clarke · Al Foley (REP) | 0.7 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 36 | William Doty Field · Frank W. Davis · Deanna P. Rush (REP) | 1.4 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 37 | David W. Hess · Leo W. Fraser · Stephen Lheureux · Tony F. Soltani · Dick Marple · Ray F. Langer · Bert Oliver · Edward N. Nutter (R) | 0.2 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 38 | Mary Stuart Gile · Fran Potter · Elizabeth D. Blanchard · Eric Daniels (DEM) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| MERRIMACK 39 | Tara G. Reardon · Candace C. W. Bouchard · Jim MacKay · John Dejoie · Gloria Seldin (DEM) | 0.4 | |
| MERRIMACK 40 | Elizabeth Hager · Mary Jane Wallner · Don Brueggemann · Jessie Osborne (REP) | 1.1 | |
| MERRIMACK 41 | Eric Anderson · Leon S. Kenison · Stephen T. Destefano (REP) | 3.0 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 73 | Joseph E. Stone · Harriet E. Cady · Robert A. Johnson · Elbert Bicknell · Rudolph J. Kobel (R) | 1.3 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 74 | Franklin C. Bishop · Donald C. Smith Jr. · Norman E. Weldy Jr. (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 75 | Sharon Carson · Betsy McKinney · Karen Keeganhutchinson · Robert E. Introne Jr. · Sherm Packard · Dudley D. Dumaine · Paul C. Smith · James Headd · C. Donald Stritch (R) | 2.5 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 76 | Mary E. Griffin · Ronald J. Belanger · Anthony R. Difruscia · Janeen Dalrymple · James E. Holland Jr. · Anne K. Priestley · Charles McMahon · Richard T. Cooney · Russell F. Ingram · Richard Noyes · Kevin Waterhouse · Christopher L. Doyle · Manning Jr. (R) | 0.7 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 77 | Phyllis Katsakiores · Bob Letourneau · Roland Dupuis · George Katsakiores · Kenneth H. Gould · John S. Langone · William R. Zolla · Robert Fesh · John P. Gleason · James B. Rausch · Robert W. Wiley (R) | 1.5 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 78 | Natalie S. Flanagan · George D. Winchell (R) | 11.8 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 79 | Vivian R. Clark · Norman L. Major · Kevin L. Camm · David A. Welch · John W. Flanders Sr. · Albert W. Hamel · Edward M. Putnam II · Thomas A. Varrell · Ken Weyler · James J. Duffy · Corey E. Corbin (R) | 2.8 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 80 | Mary Lou Nowe · Robert K. Dodge · Matthew Vallone · Daniel C. Itse (REP) | 2.5 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 81 | Mary M. Allen · Kimberley Casey (REP) | 1.7 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 82 | Karl Gilbert · Betsy Coes · Robert Davidson (REP) | 2.1 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 83 | Stella Scamman · Marshall E. Quandt · Jeff Gilbert · Carl G. Robertson · Rogers J. Johnson · Walter D. Ruffner · Arthur Tufts · Kurt J. Roessner (R) | 1.1 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 84 | Richard A. McCann · Benjamin E. Moore · E. Albert Weare · Richard W. Morris (R) | 3.4 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 85 | Jane Kelley · Russell D. Bridle · Thomas J. Gillick Jr. · Sheila T. Francoeur · Michael Oneil (R) | 4.7 | |
| ROCKINGHAM 86 | Paul McEachern · Laura Pantelakos · Mary Ann N. Blanchard · James R. Splaine · Terie Norelli · Jacqueline Pitts · Betsy Shultis (D) | 0.9 | Incumbent lost |
| ROCKINGHAM 87 | Bruce L. Dearborn (R) | Unopposed | |
| ROCKINGHAM 88 | Jane S. Langley · Daniel M. Hughes (R) | 2.7 | |
| STRAFFORD 67 | Richard F. Heon · Roger R. Berube · Clair A. Snyder · Clifford Newton · Julie M. Brown · Jim Twombly · Sandra B. Keans · Deanna S. Rollo · Russell A. Albert · Patricia C. Dunlap · Frank D. Callaghan · Irene T. Creteau · Anne Grassie · Alan Bemis (DEM) | 0.0 | Incumbent lost |
| STRAFFORD 68 | David A. Bickford · Timothy E. Easson · W. Packy Campbell · Mike Harrington · Sam Cataldo · George T. Musler · Dennis P. Vachon · Nancy K. Johnson (REP) | 0.1 | Incumbent lost |
| STRAFFORD 69 | Phyllis Woods · William V. Knowles · Roland P. Hofemann (REP) | 1.0 | |
| STRAFFORD 70 | Katherine Taylor · Peter Schmidt · Kathleen N. Taylor (D) | 5.7 | |
| STRAFFORD 71 | Arthur J. Pelletier · David Scott · Jeff Hollinger (DEM) | 1.4 | Incumbent lost |
| STRAFFORD 72 | Janet Wall · Naida Kaen · Marjorie Smith · Emma Rous · Judith Spang · Joseph Miller (D) | 3.5 | |
| SULLIVAN 19 | Peter Hoe Burling · Constance A. Jones (DEM) | 0.3 | |
| SULLIVAN 20 | Beverly T. Rodeschin · Gordon B. Flint Sr. · Peter E. Franklin (REP) | 2.8 | |
| SULLIVAN 21 | Richard C. Leone (R) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 22 | Tom Donovan · Catherine A. Cloutier · James Allison · Sandra C. Harris · Joe Harris (D) | Unopposed | |
| SULLIVAN 23 | James G. Phinizy · Brenda L. Ferland (D) | 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