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Stefany Shaheen
Democratic
Stefany Shaheen is a former Portsmouth city councilor and the daughter of retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, per New Hampshire Bulletin, which reported she led the Democratic field in the January UNH Granite State Poll. Health care advocacy for her daughter, w…
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Maura C. Sullivan
Democratic
Maura C. Sullivan of New Castle is a Marine Corps veteran who worked in the Obama administration and previously sought this seat in 2018, per New Hampshire Bulletin. She calls health care the top crisis facing voters, per NHPR.
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Heath Howard
Democratic
Heath Howard suspended his campaign on August 24 and endorsed Carleigh Beriont, urging other progressives to consolidate, per NHPR; his name still appears on the September 8 ballot. A 26 year old two term state representative from Strafford, he had run as a yo…
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Christian Urrutia
Democratic
Christian Urrutia of Moultonborough is a lawyer, Army National Guardsman, and former Airbnb executive, per New Hampshire Bulletin and NHPR. He built an August campaign event around health insurance, calling it one of the great moral questions of the election, …
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Carleigh Beriont
Democratic
Carleigh Beriont chairs the Hampton select board, is a teacher who once taught public school in the Marshall Islands, and helped unionize Harvard graduate student workers, per her campaign site and New Hampshire Bulletin. She received suspended rival Heath How…
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Sarah E. Chadzynski
Democratic
Sarah E. Chadzynski is a former teacher and single mother who spent four years in Washington working on Ukraine policy, per her campaign site, and backs a single-payer health system, per NHPR. In the short term she supports having the federal government take o…
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Bill Conlin
Democratic
Bill Conlin of Dover is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8 Democratic ballot in this district.
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Matthew Emerson
Democratic
Matthew Emerson of North Conway is a former state Democratic Party field organizer who through hiked the Appalachian Trail at 21 and wrote a book about it, per his campaign site; he is self funding under five thousand dollars and refuses donations, per his sit…
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Sarah Bella Spinosa
Democratic
Sarah Bella Spinosa of Manchester is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8 Democratic ballot in this district.
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Anthony DiLorenzo
Republican
Anthony DiLorenzo is a Portsmouth businessman who owns a chain of car dealerships and is self-funding his campaign, per New Hampshire Bulletin and NHPR. Though a first-time office seeker, he received President Trump's endorsement in July 2026, per NHPR.
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Hollie Noveletsky
Republican
Hollie Noveletsky of Newfields runs her family's steel fabrication company, Novel Iron Works in Greenland, and is a military veteran and a nurse, per NHPR. She sought this seat in 2024 and finished a close second in the Republican field, per NHPR.
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Brian D. Cole
Republican
Brian D. Cole is a Manchester state representative finishing his second term who previously led a family-owned tool importing company, per NHPR. Born and raised in New Hampshire, he tells voters his State House record means he could hit the ground running in W…
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Melissa Bailey
Republican
Melissa Bailey of Bedford SUSPENDED her campaign on July 17, 2026 and endorsed Anthony DiLorenzo, per NHPR; because she qualified before the June 12 filing deadline, her name still appears on the September 8 ballot.
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Lindsey Anderson
Republican
Lindsey Anderson of Moultonborough is a business and technology leader, per his campaign site; he attended the August 13 Brentwood debate but was not invited on stage, per NHPR.
About this race
New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The New Hampshire primary is Tuesday, September 8, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
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