New Hampshire Voter Guide 2026

Kelly Ayotte is New Hampshire's incumbent governor and a Republican candidate for re-election in 2026. A former U.S. senator and state attorney general, she took office in January 2025, and her campaign emphasizes keeping New Hampshire safe, prosperous, and free, with a focus on housing, schools, and protecting vulnerable citizens.

Priorities: Tackle the housing crisis and keep New Hampshire affordable · Strengthen schools and expand education options · Keep communities safe and protect vulnerable citizens

Cinde Warmington is a Democratic candidate for New Hampshire governor, an attorney and former executive councilor who was the only Democrat on the five-member Executive Council. Her campaign centers on the affordability crisis: bringing down costs, making health care more affordable, tackling housing, protecting public education, and repealing the state's private school voucher program.

Priorities: Bring down costs and make health care more affordable · Tackle the housing crisis · Protect public education and repeal the private school voucher program

Shaun Fife is a Republican primary candidate for New Hampshire governor, an agriculturalist and former welder who also ran in 2024. He is challenging incumbent Kelly Ayotte in the September 8 Republican primary.

Priorities: Support New Hampshire agriculture and trades · Offer a grassroots Republican primary choice · Bring working-class experience to state government

Bob Wayne McClory of Goffstown is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8, 2026 Republican ballot for governor, per the certified cumulative filings; NHPR reported no fundraising paperwork on file for the campaign as of mid-June.

Jon Kiper is an independent candidate for New Hampshire governor, a Newmarket restaurant owner, former town councilor, author, and former Democrat who ran in the 2024 primary. His Community First campaign is collecting the 3,000 signatures required by mid-July to appear on the November ballot, so his ballot status should be confirmed after certification.

Priorities: Put community-first economics ahead of the two-party system · Support small businesses and local economies · Make housing and daily life affordable for working Granite Staters

Chris Pappas is a Democratic candidate for New Hampshire's open U.S. Senate seat and the four-term congressman from the 1st District. Born and raised in Manchester, he helps run his family's restaurant and previously served as an executive councilor. His campaign emphasizes an anti-corruption agenda and a tax-cuts-and-lower-costs blueprint for working families.

Priorities: Pass an anti-corruption agenda, including a congressional stock-trading ban · Cut taxes and lower costs for working families · Protect Social Security, Medicare, and veterans' care

John E. Sununu is a Republican candidate for New Hampshire's open U.S. Senate seat, seeking to return to the chamber where he served from 2003 to 2009. A lifelong Granite Stater trained as an engineer, he previously served three terms in the U.S. House. His campaign emphasizes common-sense problem solving, cutting government waste, opposing tax hikes, and protecting privacy and seniors.

Priorities: Cut government waste and oppose tax increases · Protect the privacy and rights of ordinary Americans · Bring practical, engineering-minded problem solving to Washington

Scott Brown is a Republican candidate for New Hampshire's open U.S. Senate seat, a Portsmouth-born Army veteran of nearly 40 years, former U.S. senator from Massachusetts, and former U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. The party's 2014 nominee for this seat, his campaign emphasizes accountability, constituent services, and steady leadership in Washington.

Priorities: Bring accountability and steady leadership to Washington · Deliver constituent services that are second to none · Draw on military and diplomatic experience for national security

Karishma Manzur is a Democratic candidate for New Hampshire's open U.S. Senate seat, a scientist, science writer, and progressive activist. Her campaign refuses corporate PAC money and emphasizes banning big money in politics, fixing the housing crisis, and guaranteeing affordable health care for everyone.

Priorities: Ban big money in politics · Fix the housing crisis and lower the cost of living · Guarantee quality, affordable health care for everyone

David Jarvis of Manchester is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8, 2026 Democratic ballot for U.S. Senate.

Maxwell L. Saal of Walpole is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8, 2026 Democratic ballot for U.S. Senate.

John Vail of Easton is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8, 2026 Democratic ballot for U.S. Senate.

Tom Alciere of Hudson is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8, 2026 Republican ballot for U.S. Senate.

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, who lives with Type 1 diabetes, has been central to her campaign, per NHPR.

Priorities: Medicare for All while keeping every option including a public option on the table, per NHPR · Expanding Medicare to cover vision, hearing, and dental for seniors, per NHPR · Restoring cuts to the Affordable Care Act, per NHPR

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.

Priorities: Creating a public option as a cheaper alternative to private insurance, per NHPR · Lowering health costs for working families and seniors, per NHPR · Putting more money back in people's pockets, per NHPR

Heath Howard is a state representative from Strafford running as a young progressive who pitches himself as the populist choice, per New Hampshire Bulletin, which reported he placed second in the most recent UNH Granite State Poll of the field.

Priorities: Medicare for All, per NHPR · A populist economic message aimed at working families, per New Hampshire Bulletin

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, per NHPR.

Priorities: Medicare for All, including empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices, per NHPR · Cutting bureaucratic waste in the private health insurance system, per NHPR

Carleigh Beriont chairs the Hampton select board and is running from the progressive lane of the Democratic field, per New Hampshire Bulletin and NHPR. She backs Medicare for All, per NHPR.

Priorities: Medicare for All, per NHPR

Sarah E. Chadzynski of Lyndeborough is a nonprofit executive who backs a single-payer health system, per NHPR. In the short term she supports having the federal government take over risk insurance to lower premiums, per NHPR.

Priorities: Single-payer health coverage, per NHPR · A federal takeover of risk insurance to lower premiums, per NHPR

Bill Conlin of Dover is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8 Democratic ballot in this district.

Matthew Emerson of Conway is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8 Democratic ballot in this district.

Maggie Goodlander of Concord is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, per the chamber's current membership roster, seeking a second term. She is a former Biden administration official, per New Hampshire Bulletin.

Paige Beauchemin is a state representative from Nashua challenging the incumbent from a progressive angle, per New Hampshire Bulletin.

Lily Tang Williams of Weare was the 2024 Republican nominee in this district and is making her third run here, per NHPR. She moved to New Hampshire from Colorado in 2019 as part of the Free State Project, has raised more than a million dollars this cycle, and told NHPR she does not have President Trump's endorsement this time.

Priorities: A personal-liberty message built on a childhood spent in poverty in China, per NHPR · Direct voter contact across the district, per NHPR · Running as an independent-minded Republican, per NHPR

Victor Orlando of Hollis is a 33-year-old father of three who has worked in the trades since middle school and describes himself as a moderate, per NHPR. SEIU 1984, the largest state employees union, endorsed him, per NHPR.

Priorities: Lowering the cost of housing, food, and energy, per NHPR · Securing more federal infrastructure money for New Hampshire, per NHPR · Pro-labor policy, per NHPR

Michael Anthony Callis of Conway is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8 Republican ballot in this district.

Dan Nicholson of Nashua is on the Secretary of State's certified filing list for the September 8 Republican ballot in this district.