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:
- Executive Council
- 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.
Pre-statehood–1882
1883–present
- 1 2 Governor of the Upper Plantation of New Hampshire.
- ↑ Resigned to take a seat on a federal court.
- ↑ A Democratic-Republican, Nicholas Gilman, was elected as President of the Senate.
- 1 2 A Jacksonian, Henry Hubbard, was re-elected as Speaker.
- ↑ A National Republican, James Wilson II, was elected as Speaker.
- ↑ Resigned to take a seat on the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire.
- 1 2 As president of the state senate, acted as governor for unexpired term.
- ↑ A coalition of Whigs, Independent Democrats, and Liberty Partiers elected John P. Hale, then an Independent Democrat, to be Speaker, and they organized the chamber.
- ↑ A Democrat, Nathaniel B. Baker, was elected as Speaker.
- ↑ A Democrat, George W. M. Pittman, was elected Senate President.[1]
- ↑ Following the death of Republican State Senator Hiram T. Morrill on July 7, 1885, the General Court elected Prohibition Party candidate Frank G. Thurston to fill the vacancy.[3]
- ↑ A coalition of Progressive Republicans and Democrats elected a Progressive Republican, William Britton, as Speaker.
- 1 2 3 After having apparently won election to the Senate, Wyman was appointed to serve out the last 4 days of retiring Senator Norris Cotton's term. However, Durkin contested the election results in the Senate, which resulted in the seat being vacant for seven months until an agreement to hold a new special election between Wyman and Durkin. Cotton was reappointed to his old seat in the meantime (from August 8 to September 18), and Durkin, having emerged victorious in the special election was finally seated on September 18.
- ↑ Republican Senate Presidents, first Alf E. Jacobson, then Robert B. Monier, were chosen in 1977 and 1979.
- ↑ Fell ill and yielded his powers to the president of the state Senate; died on December 29, 1982.
- ↑ In summer 1999 a Democratic senator died and was succeeded by a Republican elected in a special election.
References
- ↑ Biographical Sketches of the Delegates to the New Hampshire Constitutional Convention for 1889. compiler. 1889. p. 41.
- ↑ "NH Elections Database » Search Elections". NH Elections Database. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
- ↑ Yeargain, Tyler (2021). "New England State Senates: Case Studies for Revisiting the Indirect Election of Legislators". University of New Hampshire Law Review. 19 (2): 370–71. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
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