2026 results · state legislatures · New Hampshire

Democrats lead for control of the New Hampshire Senate

In the Senate, Democrats hold or lead 15 seats and Republicans 9, against 8 and 16 before. Seven seats are led by another party than held them.

Leaders in the count from New Hampshire Secretary of State, not called winners. A close seat can still change.

One dot per seat, 24 in all; a party across the line holds a majority. 7 seats change hands, striped where they land.

Before: 8–16. With the leaders elected: 15–9, every seat not on the ballot as it was and every seat on it to the party leading the count.

Democrats lead for control

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7 seats changing party, then the closest

New Hampshire Senate: the districts on the ballot
District	Leading	Runner-up	Margin	Held by
7Flip	Rebecca Harned D 51.7%	Daniel E. Innis R 48.2%	D+3.5	R
12Flip	Carryl L. Roy D 52.0%	Kevin Avard R 47.9%	D+4.2	R
2Flip	Kurt Webber D 52.1%	Timothy P. Lang R 47.8%	D+4.3	R
16Flip	Dian McCarthy D 52.4%	Keith Murphy R 47.5%	D+5.0	R
9Flip	Matthew McLaughlin D 53.5%	Denise Ricciardi R 46.3%	D+7.2	R
18Flip	Leonard Bell D 55.0%	Victoria Sullivan R 44.9%	D+10.0	R
11Flip	Shannon E. Chandley D 58.0%	Tim McGough R 41.9%	D+16.1	R
8	Jim Creighton R 50.8%	David Trumble D 49.2%	R+1.6	R
14	Sharon M. Carson R 50.9%	Timothy T. Wyatt D 49.0%	R+1.9	R
6	James P. Gray R 51.6%	Cecil Abels D 48.3%	R+3.3	R
17	Howard Pearl R 52.0%	Robert Lawliss D 47.9%	R+4.1	R
3	Mark McConkey R 52.5%	Bobbi Boudman D 47.4%	R+5.1	R
19	Regina Birdsell R 52.5%	Michelle Moge D 47.4%	R+5.1	R
1	David Rochefort R 53.3%	Cathleen A. Fountain D 46.6%	R+6.7	R
22	Daryl Abbas R 55.8%	Chris Tardif D 44.2%	R+11.6	R
23	Bill Gannon R 56.2%	David Childs D 43.7%	R+12.5	R
24	Debra Altschiller D 60.5%	Lou Gargiulo R 39.5%	D+20.9	D
4	David H. Watters D 67.9%	Shawn Mickelonis R 32.0%	D+35.9	D
5	Suzanne M. Prentiss D 74.4%	Conrad Schoeffter R 25.6%	D+48.8	D
10	Donovan Fenton D 98.6%	unopposed	—	D
13	Laura Telerski D 64.3%	Daniel J. Paul R 35.6%	D+28.6	D
15	Tara Reardon D 71.5%	Dennis Blankenbeker R 28.5%	D+43.0	D
20	Pat T. Long D 65.6%	Patrick Binder R 34.3%	D+31.4	D
21	Rebecca Perkins Kwoka D 74.0%	Jeffrey Berlin R 25.9%	D+48.1	D

Held by: the sitting member before the election, matched to the district; a seat with no matched member is left unmatched rather than given a party. District lines: the Census Bureau’s 2024 state legislative districts; a seat not on this year’s ballot is drawn in the page’s gray, outlined in its sitting member’s party.