Political party strength in New Hampshire facts for kids
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of New Hampshire:
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: American (A), Democratic (D), Democratic-Republican (DR), Federalist (F), Independent (I), no party (N), National Republican (NR), Republican (R), Whig (W), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
Year | Executive office | General Court | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||
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Governor | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House At-large District | |||||
1631 | Thomas Wiggin | |||||||||
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1636 | ||||||||||
1637 | George Burdett | |||||||||
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1641 | ... | |||||||||
1776 | Meshech Weare (N) | |||||||||
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1785 | John Langdon (N) | |||||||||
1786 | John Sullivan (F) | |||||||||
1787 | ||||||||||
1788 | John Langdon (DR) | |||||||||
1789 | John Sullivan (F) | Paine Wingate (AA) | John Langdon (PA) | 3PA | George Washington and John Adams (PA) | |||||
1790 | Josiah Bartlett (DR) | |||||||||
1791 | ||||||||||
1792 | ||||||||||
1793 | Samuel Livermore (PA/F) | John Langdon (AA/DR) | 3PA, 1AA | |||||||
1794 | John Taylor Gilman (F) | |||||||||
1795 | F Majority | F Majority | 3F, 1DR | |||||||
1796 | F Majority | F Majority | John Adams and Oliver Ellsworth (F) | |||||||
1797 | F Majority | F Majority | 4F | |||||||
1798 | F Majority | F Majority | ||||||||
1799 | F Majority | F Majority | ||||||||
1800 | 11F, 1DR | F Majority | John Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (F) | |||||||
1801 | F Majority | Simeon Olcott (F) | James Sheafe (F) | |||||||
1802 | 9F, 3DR | F Majority | William Plumer (F) | |||||||
1803 | 7F, 5DR | 84F, 69DR | 5F | |||||||
1804 | 6DR, 6F | 87DR, 75F | Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton (DR) | |||||||
1805 | John Langdon (DR) | 8DR, 4F | 92DR, 71F | Nicholas Gilman (DR) | ||||||
1806 | 10DR, 2F | 108DR, 52F | ||||||||
1807 | 8DR, 4F | DR Majority | Nahum Parker (DR) | 5DR | ||||||
1808 | 9DR, 3F | 99DR, 63F | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Rufus King (F) | |||||||
1809 | Jeremiah Smith (F) | 7F, 5DR | 99DR, 67F | 5F | ||||||
1810 | John Langdon (DR) | 7DR, 5F | 91DR, 81F | Charles Cutts (DR) | ||||||
1811 | 8DR, 4F | 98DR, 77F | 4DR, 1F | |||||||
1812 | William Plumer (DR) | 7DR, 5F | 104DR, 79F | DeWitt Clinton and Jared Ingersoll (F) | ||||||
1813 | John Taylor Gilman (F) | 9F, 3DR | 106F, 75DR | Jeremiah Mason (F) | 6F | |||||
1814 | 8F, 4DR | 98F, 89DR | Thomas W. Thompson (F) | |||||||
1815 | 102F, 86DR | |||||||||
1816 | William Plumer (DR) | 8DR, 4F | 105DR, 84F | James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) | ||||||
1817 | 11DR, 1F | 107DR, 87F | David L. Morril (DR) | Clement Storer (DR) | 6DR | |||||
1818 | 10DR, 2F | 119DR, 75F | ||||||||
1819 | Samuel Bell (DR) | 11DR, 1F | 124DR, 70F | John Fabyan Parrott (DR) | ||||||
1820 | DR Majority | DR Majority | ||||||||
1821 | DR Majority | DR Majority | ||||||||
1822 | DR Majority | DR Majority | ||||||||
1823 | Levi Woodbury (DR) | DR Majority | DR Majority | Samuel Bell (NR) | 6Adams-Clay DR | |||||
1824 | David L. Morril (DR) | DR Majority | DR Majority | John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun (A) | ||||||
1825 | 10J, 2NR | 104J, 101NR, 5 vac. | Levi Woodbury (J) | 5A, 1J | ||||||
1826 | 8J, 4NR | 98D, 91NR, 18?, 4 vac. | ||||||||
1827 | Benjamin Pierce (DR) | 11J, 1NR | 89NR, 84J, 40?, 2 vac. | |||||||
1828 | John Bell (NR) | 10NR, 2J | 92NR, 84J, 30?, 2 vac. | John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush (NR) | ||||||
1829 | Benjamin Pierce (D) | 8J, 4NR | 99J, 82NR | 6J | ||||||
1830 | Matthew Harvey (D) | 9J, 3NR | 111J, 101NR | |||||||
1831 | Joseph M. Harper (D) | 10J, 2NR | 140J, 73NR | Isaac Hill (J) | ||||||
Samuel Dinsmoor (D) | ||||||||||
1832 | 11J, 1NR | 144D, 52NR, 26? | Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D) | |||||||
1833 | 125J, 42NR | 5J | ||||||||
1834 | William Badger (D) | 12D | 150D, 46W | |||||||
1835 | 11D, 1W | 150D, 58W | Henry Hubbard (D) | |||||||
1836 | Isaac Hill (D) | 168D, 46W | John Page (J) | Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson (D) | ||||||
1837 | 177D, 51W | Franklin Pierce (D) | 5D | |||||||
1838 | 8D, 4W | 129D, 116W | ||||||||
1839 | John Page (D) | 10D, 2W | 154D, 91W | |||||||
1840 | 171D, 69W | |||||||||
1841 | 161D, 85W | Levi Woodbury (D) | ||||||||
1842 | Henry Hubbard (D) | 11D, 1W | 166D, 64W | Leonard Wilcox (D) | ||||||
1843 | 10D, 2W | 139D, 98W | Charles G. Atherton (D) | 4D | ||||||
1844 | John Hardy Steele (D) | 11D, 1W | 153D, 81W | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D) | ||||||
1845 | 12D | 156D, 74W, 7 Lty. | 3D, 1 Vacant | |||||||
1846 | Anthony Colby (W) | 7W, 4D, 1I | 124D, 107W, 32I, 11 Lty. | Benning W. Jenness (D) | ||||||
Joseph Cilley (D) | ||||||||||
1847 | Jared W. Williams (D) | 11D, 1W | 146D, 136W | John P. Hale (FS) | U.S. House District 1 | U.S. House District 2 | U.S. House District 3 | U.S. House District 4 | ||
Amos Tuck (I) | Charles H. Peaslee (D) | James Wilson II (W) | James Hutchins Johnson (D) | |||||||
1848 | 10D, 2W | 159D, 121W | Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler (D) | |||||||
1849 | Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. (D) | 11D, 1W | 158D, 107W | Moses Norris, Jr. (D) | Amos Tuck (FS) | Harry Hibbard (D) | ||||
1850 | 189D, 86W | George W. Morrison (D) | ||||||||
1851 | 10D, 2W | 114D, 114W, 54 FS, 10 vac. | Amos Tuck (W) | Jared Perkins (W) | ||||||
1852 | Noah Martin (D) | 141D, 101W, 32FS, 4I | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) | |||||||
1853 | 11D, 1W | 178D, 92W, 34FS | Charles G. Atherton (D) | U.S. House District 1 | U.S. House District 2 | U.S. House District 3 | ||||
George W. Kittredge (D) | George W. Morrison (D) | Harry Hibbard (D) | ||||||||
1854 | Nathaniel B. Baker (D) | 10D, 2W | 160D, 145W, 1?, 5 vac. | Jared W. Williams (D) | ||||||
1855 | Ralph Metcalf (A) | 11A, 1D | 227R, 79D, 2?, 5 vac. | vacant | John S. Wells (D) | James Pike (A) | Mason Tappan (A) | Aaron H. Cragin (A) | ||
John P. Hale (R) | James Bell (R) | |||||||||
1856 | 8A, 4D | 168R, 146D | John C. Frémont and William L. Dayton (R) | |||||||
1857 | William Haile (R) | 8R, 4D | 196R, 128D, 4 vac. | Daniel Clark (R) | James Pike (R) | Mason Tappan (R) | Aaron H. Cragin (R) | |||
1858 | 9R, 3D | 196R, 119D | ||||||||
1859 | Ichabod Goodwin (R) | 8R, 4D | 199R, 126D | Gilman Marston (R) | Thomas M. Edwards (R) | |||||
1860 | 10R, 2D | 206R, 121D | Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (R) | |||||||
1861 | Nathaniel S. Berry (R) | 200R, 121D | Edward H. Rollins (R) | |||||||
1862 | 9R, 3D | 203R, 120D | ||||||||
1863 | Joseph A. Gilmore (R) | 190R, 141D | Daniel Marcy (D) | James W. Patterson (R) | ||||||
1864 | 210R, 123D | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) | ||||||||
1865 | Frederick Smyth (R) | 214R, 114D | Aaron H. Cragin (R) | Gilman Marston (R) | ||||||
1866 | 208R, 114D | George G. Fogg (R) | ||||||||
1867 | Walter Harriman (R) | 202R, 128D | James W. Patterson (R) | Jacob Hart Ela (R) | Aaron Fletcher Stevens (R) | Jacob Benton (R) | ||||
1868 | 194R, 138D | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | ||||||||
1869 | Onslow Stearns (R) | 194R, 140D | ||||||||
1870 | 11R, 1D | 201R, 126D | ||||||||
1871 | James A. Weston (D) | 6D, 6R | 165D, 164R | Ellery Albee Hibbard (D) | Samuel Newell Bell (D) | Hosea Washington Parker (D) | ||||
1872 | Ezekiel A. Straw (R) | 8R, 4D | 210R, 150D | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | ||||||
1873 | 9R, 3D | 204R, 144D | Bainbridge Wadleigh (R) | William B. Small (R) | Austin F. Pike (R) | |||||
1874 | James A. Weston (D) | 8D, 4R | 177D, 164R | |||||||
1875 | Person Colby Cheney (R) | 7D, 5R | 191R, 182D | Frank Jones (D) | Samuel Newell Bell (D) | Henry W. Blair (R) | ||||
1876 | 9R, 3D | 211R, 180D | Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) | |||||||
1877 | Benjamin F. Prescott (R) | 8R, 4D | 224R, 155D | Edward H. Rollins (R) | James Frankland Briggs (R) | |||||
1878 | 216R, 170D | |||||||||
1879 | Nathaniel Head (R) | 20R, 4D | 168R, 100D, 11G | Charles H. Bell (R) | Joshua G. Hall (R) | Evarts Worcester Farr (R) | ||||
1880 | Henry W. Blair (R) | James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R) | ||||||||
1881 | Charles H. Bell (R) | 16R, 8D | 179R, 114D | Ossian Ray (R) | ||||||
1882 | ||||||||||
1883 | Samuel W. Hale (R) | 17R, 7D | 188R, 121D, 1I | Austin F. Pike (R) | U.S. House District 1 | U.S. House District 2 | ||||
Martin Alonzo Haynes (R) | Ossian Ray (R) | |||||||||
1884 | James G. Blaine and John A. Logan (R) | |||||||||
1885 | Moody Currier (R) | 16R, 8D | 183R, 122D | Jacob Harold Gallinger (R) | ||||||
1886 | ||||||||||
1887 | Charles H. Sawyer (R) | 15R, 9D | 169R, 138D | Person Colby Cheney (R) | Luther F. McKinney (D) | |||||
1888 | William E. Chandler (R) | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) | ||||||||
1889 | David H. Goodell (R) | 18R, 6D | 169R, 144D | Gilman Marston (R) | Alonzo Nute (R) | Orren C. Moore (R) | ||||
1890 | William E. Chandler (R) | |||||||||
1891 | Hiram A. Tuttle (R) | 14R, 10D | 185R, 170D | Jacob Harold Gallinger (R) | Luther F. McKinney (D) | Warren F. Daniell (D) | ||||
1892 | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R) | |||||||||
1893 | John Butler Smith (R) | 15R, 9D | 209R, 149D | Henry W. Blair (R) | Henry Moore Baker (R) | |||||
1894 | ||||||||||
1895 | Charles A. Busiel (R) | 21R, 3D | 264R, 99D | Cyrus A. Sulloway (R) | ||||||
1896 | William McKinley and Garret Hobart (R) | |||||||||
1897 | George A. Ramsdell (R) | 22R, 2D | 291R, 66D | Frank Gay Clarke (R) | ||||||
1898 | ||||||||||
1899 | Frank W. Rollins (R) | 250R, 109D, 1ID | ||||||||
1900 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | |||||||||
1901 | Chester B. Jordan (R) | 23R, 1D | 300R, 97D | Henry E. Burnham (R) | Frank Dunklee Currier (R) | |||||
1902 | ||||||||||
1903 | Nahum J. Bachelder (R) | 20R, 4D | 257R, 136D | |||||||
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||
1905 | John McLane (R) | 21R, 3D | 286R, 105D | |||||||
1905 | ||||||||||
1907 | Charles M. Floyd (R) | 18R, 6D | 262R, 128D, 1I | |||||||
1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||||
1909 | Henry B. Quinby (R) | 20R, 4D | 269R, 117D, 1I | |||||||
1910 | ||||||||||
1911 | Robert P. Bass (R) | 16R, 8D | 220R, 173D | |||||||
1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | |||||||||
1913 | Samuel D. Felker (D) | 14D, 10R | 207R, 195D | Henry F. Hollis (D) | Eugene Elliott Reed (D) | Raymond Bartlett Stevens (D) | ||||
1914 | ||||||||||
1915 | Rolland H. Spaulding (R) | 19R, 4D, 1 Prog. | 250R, 153D, 5 Prog. | Cyrus A. Sulloway (R) | Edward Hills Wason (R) | |||||
1916 | ||||||||||
1917 | Henry W. Keyes (R) | 16R, 8D | 246R, 157D, 1I | Sherman Everett Burroughs (R) | ||||||
1918 | Irving W. Drew (R) | |||||||||
1919 | John H. Bartlett (R) | 19R, 5D | 244R, 160D, 1ID, 1I | Henry W. Keyes (R) | George H. Moses (R) | |||||
1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||
1921 | Albert O. Brown (R) | 21R, 3D | 294R, 109D, 1I | |||||||
1922 | ||||||||||
1923 | Fred H. Brown (D) | 16R, 8D | 220D, 196R, 2I | William Nathaniel Rogers (D) | ||||||
1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | |||||||||
1925 | John Gilbert Winant (R) | 19R, 5D | 273R, 147D, 1I | Fletcher Hale (R) | ||||||
1926 | ||||||||||
1927 | Huntley N. Spaulding (R) | 20R, 4D | 286R, 131D, 1I | |||||||
1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | |||||||||
1929 | Charles W. Tobey (R) | 19R, 5D | 273R, 148D | |||||||
1930 | ||||||||||
1931 | John Gilbert Winant (R) | 254R, 163D | ||||||||
1932 | William Nathaniel Rogers (D) | |||||||||
1933 | 16R, 8D | 225R, 193D | Fred H. Brown (D) | Charles W. Tobey (R) | ||||||
1934 | ||||||||||
1935 | Styles Bridges (R) | 15R, 9D | 213R, 208D, 1I, 2 vac. | |||||||
1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | |||||||||
1937 | Francis P. Murphy (R) | 16R, 8D | 230R, 187D, 1I | Styles Bridges (R) | Arthur B. Jenks (R) | |||||
1938 | Alphonse Roy (D) | |||||||||
1939 | 18R, 6D | 269R, 158D | Charles W. Tobey (R) | Arthur B. Jenks (R) | Foster Waterman Stearns (R) | |||||
1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) | |||||||||
1941 | Robert O. Blood (R) | 16R, 8D | 229R, 194D | |||||||
1942 | ||||||||||
1943 | 17R, 7D | 276R, 167D | Chester Earl Merrow (R) | |||||||
1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) | |||||||||
1945 | Charles M. Dale (R) | 15R, 9D | 266R, 163D, 1I | Sherman Adams (R) | ||||||
1946 | ||||||||||
1947 | 19R, 5D | 273R, 126D, 1I | Norris Cotton (R) | |||||||
1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) | |||||||||
1949 | Sherman Adams (R) | 18R, 6D | 254R, 145D | |||||||
1950 | ||||||||||
1951 | 263R, 133D, 3I | |||||||||
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | |||||||||
1953 | Hugh Gregg (R) | 276R, 122D, 1I | ||||||||
1954 | Robert W. Upton (R) | |||||||||
1955 | Lane Dwinell (R) | 264R, 135D | Norris Cotton (R) | Perkins Bass (R) | ||||||
1956 | ||||||||||
1957 | 276R, 118D, 3I | |||||||||
1958 | ||||||||||
1959 | Wesley Powell (R) | 264R, 136D | ||||||||
1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | |||||||||
1961 | 259R, 139D, 1I | |||||||||
1962 | Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (R) | |||||||||
1963 | John W. King (D) | 19R, 5D | 253R, 146D | Thomas J. McIntyre (D) | Louis C. Wyman (R) | James Colgate Cleveland (R) | ||||
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | |||||||||
1965 | 14R, 10D | 216R, 183D | Joseph Oliva Huot (D) | |||||||
1966 | ||||||||||
1967 | 245R, 155D | Louis C. Wyman (R) | ||||||||
1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | |||||||||
1969 | Walter R. Peterson, Jr. (R) | 15R, 9D | 255R, 145D | |||||||
1970 | ||||||||||
1971 | 253R, 147D | |||||||||
1972 | ||||||||||
1973 | Meldrim Thomson, Jr. (R) | 14R, 10D | 263R, 137D | |||||||
1974 | ||||||||||
1975 | 13R, 11D | 234R, 166D | Louis C. Wyman (R) | Norman D'Amours (D) | ||||||
vacant | ||||||||||
Norris Cotton (R) | ||||||||||
1976 | John A. Durkin (D) | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | ||||||||
1977 | 12R, 12D | 220R, 180D | ||||||||
1978 | ||||||||||
1979 | Hugh Gallen (D) | 225R, 175D | Gordon J. Humphrey (R) | |||||||
1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | |||||||||
1981 | 14R, 10D | 240R, 160D | Warren Rudman (R) | Judd Gregg (R) | ||||||
1982 | Vesta M. Roy (R) | |||||||||
1983 | John H. Sununu (R) | 15R, 9D | 242R, 158D | |||||||
1984 | ||||||||||
1985 | 18R, 6D | 298R, 102D | Bob Smith (R) | |||||||
1986 | ||||||||||
1987 | 16R, 8D | 267R, 133D | ||||||||
1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||
1989 | Judd Gregg (R) | 282R, 118D | Charles Douglas III (R) | |||||||
1990 | ||||||||||
1991 | 13R, 11D | 271R, 129D | Bob Smith (R) | Bill Zeliff (R) | Richard Swett (D) | |||||
1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | |||||||||
1993 | Steve Merrill (R) | 260R, 140D | Judd Gregg (R) | |||||||
1994 | ||||||||||
1995 | 18R, 6D | 290R, 110D | Charles Bass (R) | |||||||
1996 | ||||||||||
1997 | Jeanne Shaheen (D) | 15R, 9D | 254R, 146D | John E. Sununu (R) | ||||||
1998 | ||||||||||
1999 | 13D, 11R | 245R, 155D | ||||||||
2000 | 12D, 12R | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) | ||||||||
2001 | 13R, 11D | 256R, 144D | ||||||||
2002 | ||||||||||
2003 | Craig Benson (R) | 18R, 6D | 278R, 122D | John E. Sununu (R) | Jeb Bradley (R) | |||||
2004 | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) | |||||||||
2005 | John Lynch (D) | 16R, 8D | 249R, 151D | |||||||
2006 | ||||||||||
2007 | 14D, 10R | 239D, 160R, 1I | Carol Shea-Porter (D) | Paul Hodes (D) | ||||||
2008 | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) | |||||||||
2009 | 225D, 175R | Jeanne Shaheen (D) | ||||||||
2010 | 224D, 176R | |||||||||
2011 | 19R, 5D | 298R, 102D | Kelly Ayotte (R) | Frank Guinta (R) | Charles Bass (R) | |||||
2012 | ||||||||||
2013 | Maggie Hassan (D) | 13R, 11D | 221D, 179R | Carol Shea-Porter (D) | Ann McLane Kuster (D) | |||||
2014 | 213D, 174R, 13 VC | |||||||||
2015 | 14R, 10D | 239R, 160D, 1I | Frank Guinta (R) | |||||||
2016 | Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D) | |||||||||
2017 | Chris Sununu (R) | 226R, 174D | Maggie Hassan (D) | Carol Shea-Porter (D) | ||||||
Year | Governor | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House District 1 | U.S. House District 2 | Electoral College votes | ||
Executive office | General Court | United States Congress |
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