2026 results · New Hampshire
Chris Pappas, the Democrat, wins New Hampshire’s Senate race by 13.7 points
Kamala Harris carried New Hampshire by 2.8 points in 2024; the Senate race moved 10.9 points toward Democrats.
In the House, every one of the two contested seats moved toward Democrats, the median one 14.3 points.
Who won each county, and how far it moved
New Hampshire’s two House seats
← moved toward Democrats, → toward Republicans, in points from the 2024 presidential vote in the district. * still counting: the expected finish.
Close up: the four counties that moved most
In the Senate race, these moved furthest toward Democrats, among counties with 2,000 or more votes in 2024 and at least half a percent of the state’s.
Strafford County
Moved 13.6 points toward Democrats: D+12.1 for president in 2024; Chris Pappas, the Democrat, carried it at D+25.6.
58,159 votes counted, 76,323 cast in 2024.
Merrimack County
Moved 12.5 points toward Democrats: D+5.2 for president in 2024; Chris Pappas, the Democrat, carried it at D+17.7.
72,500 votes counted, 92,475 cast in 2024.
Coos County
Moved 12.5 points toward Democrats: R+13.8 for president in 2024; John E. Sununu, the Republican, carried it at R+1.3.
12,971 votes counted, 17,230 cast in 2024.
Cheshire County
Moved 12.4 points toward Democrats: D+9.8 for president in 2024; Chris Pappas, the Democrat, carried it at D+22.2.
34,937 votes counted, 45,200 cast in 2024.
No county compared moved the other way.
Who lives where it moved
Across counties, ten more points of adults with a degree went with a county about 1.5 points more Republican, on average (r = −0.46, a moderate relationship).
By place
By race and ethnicity
Each group’s counties added together: its 2026 margin against its 2024 presidential margin. Census Bureau American Community Survey, 2019–2023. Counties, not voters: there are no exit polls here.
Every race in New Hampshire
Senate and governor
House
Ballot measures
Margins are the winner’s or leader’s lead in points of all votes cast. * Still counting: where we expect the count to finish. The move is the 2026 margin against the 2024 presidential margin on the same ground, for races between a Democrat and a Republican.
Ticket splitting
Across the 10 counties, the Senate race went D+13.7 and the governor's race R+4.4: the Senate margin ran 18.1 points more Democratic than the governor's. 4 counties were carried by different parties in the two.
Points of difference between the Senate margin and the governor's in each county.
33011carried by different parties
- Senate
- D+14.4Pappas against Sununu
- Governor
- R+4.8Warmington against Ayotte
- Difference
- D+19.2Pappas ran ahead
- Votes
- about 177,092
- 33011D+14.4R+4.8D+19.2
- 33015D+7.0R+11.7D+18.7
- 33013D+17.7D+0.5D+17.2
- 33017D+25.6D+8.5D+17.2
- 33009D+28.7D+12.0D+16.7
- 33005D+22.2D+10.1D+12.1
- 33001R+3.1R+25.2D+22.0
- 33003D+5.9R+12.4D+18.3
- 33019D+10.4R+6.1D+16.4
- 33007R+1.3R+22.6D+21.2
Margins are the Democrat minus the Republican in points of all votes cast in that race, from the counts the state’s election office has published so far; a county still counting is compared on what it has counted in both. A difference is not a count of split tickets: a voter who skipped one race moves it too.
New Hampshire’s legislature
Counts are New Hampshire’s official state and county counts, published by the New Hampshire Secretary of State. Where a race is still being counted, its margin is where we expect the count to finish, marked *. A move from 2024 is the 2026 margin against Kamala Harris’s margin over Donald Trump in the same place. A race is won when we call it or the state certifies it.