BOWERS: RINO Report Card for 2026

The New Hampshire General Court (i.e., our legislature) has finished for the year, except for a few votes on the Governor’s vetoes.

I have crunched the numbers – i.e., the voting records of 2026 – to determine objectively which members are RINOs – Republicans In Name Only.

I looked at every vote where Republicans voted opposite Democrats. More specifically, I looked at all votes where a super-majority (80%) of Republicans voted opposite a majority of Democrats. I ignored votes where both sides voted the same. A RINO vote is when a Republican votes with Democrats against a super-majority of Republicans. 

The House has had 301 roll calls so far this year. On 25 of those, the Rs and Ds both voted the same. Those votes were ignored. On 19 other votes, Rs were divided, e.g., RC #75 had Rs voting 75%-25%. Those votes were ignored because they did not meet the 80% threshold. The remaining 257 votes were scored as potential RINO votes. As it happens, 100% of Rs voted together – i.e., none of the Rs voted with the Dems – on many of those RCs, so there were no RINO votes on those RCs. 

Almost every Rep, at one time or another, casts a vote the same as the Democrats’. One example is when a Republican votes against the budget because it is too large, while the Democrats vote against it because they think it is too small. Thankfully, such votes are not common.

Most Republicans only rarely vote with Democrats against other Republicans. There were 41 who scored a perfect 0%. Looking at all Republicans, the median RINO score was 1.2%, meaning that on average they voted with Democrats only 1.2% of the time. 80% of Republicans scored lower than 3.9%; 90% scored lower than 7.5%.

There were 12 Republicans who voted more than 10% of the time against fellow Republicans. Clearly, they are out of mainstream Republicanism. Even more outside of the mainstream were 4 Republicans who voted more than 20% of the time with Democrats against Republicans.

Here is the full list:

Here is the full list:

	rino score	rino total
Coker, Matthew (R, Meredith)	37.8%	68
Bridle, Nicholas (R, Hampton)	37.1%	89
Taylor, Brian (R, Freedom)	25.3%	65
Boyd, Bill (R, Merrimack)	23.1%	55
Guthrie, Joseph (R, Hampstead)	19.8%	41
Bordes, Mike (R, Laconia)	16.1%	19
Proulx, Mark (R, Manchester)	15.4%	39
Sytek, John (R, Salem)	14.3%	36
Pearson, Mark (R, Hampstead)	12.8%	30
Vandecasteele, Susan (R, Salem)	11.4%	22
Crawford, Karel (R, Moultonborough)	11.4%	21
Perez, Kristine (R, Londonderry)	11.1%	26
Andrus, Louise (R, Salisbury)	9.8%	22
Miles, Julie (R, Merrimack)	9.7%	25
Donnelly, Tanya (R, Salem)	9.2%	23
Milz, David (R, Derry)	9.2%	23
Porcelli, Susan (R, Hampton Falls)	8.7%	22
Foote, Charles (R, Derry)	8.3%	15
Hamblen, Joseph (R, Moultonborough)	8.1%	19
Bryer, Scott (R, Northwood)	8.0%	20
Murphy, Denis (R, Winchester)	7.6%	19
Minor, Sheri (R, Laconia)	7.5%	8
Pearson, Stephen (R, Derry)	7.3%	17
Panek, Sandra (R, Pelham)	7.1%	3
Nelson, Jodi (R, Derry)	7.0%	11
Lundgren, David (R, Londonderry)	6.1%	9
Melvin, Charles (R, Newton)	5.4%	13
Mannion, Dennis (R, Salem)	5.1%	13
Ball, Lorie (R, Salem)	5.1%	10
McLean, Mark (R, Manchester)	4.5%	11
Roy, Terry (R, Deerfield)	4.4%	6
Spilsbury, Walter (R, Charlestown)	4.3%	11
McDonnell, Valerie (R, Salem)	4.3%	10
Markell, Jay (R, Atkinson)	4.3%	7
Prout, Andrew (R, Hudson)	4.2%	10
Dolan, Tom (R, Londonderry)	4.2%	7
Hunt, John (R, Rindge)	4.1%	10
Mooney, Maureen (R, Merrimack)	4.0%	10
Potenza, Kelley (R, Rochester)	4.0%	10
Barton, Joseph (R, Littleton)	3.9%	9
MacDonald, John (R, Wolfeboro)	3.9%	9
Flanagan, Jack (R, Mason)	3.9%	8
Presa, Adam (R, Merrimack)	3.9%	6
Tierney, James (R, Northumberland)	3.8%	8
Boehm, Ralph (R, Litchfield)	3.7%	9
Franz, Linda (R, Wentworth)	3.7%	8
King, Seth (R, Whitefield)	3.6%	9
MacDonald, Wayne (R, Londonderry)	3.6%	9
Brown, Richard (R, Moultonborough)	3.6%	7
McFarlane, Donald (R, Orange)	3.6%	7
Bailey, Glenn (R, Milton)	3.5%	9
Lynn, Bob (R, Windham)	3.5%	9
Warden, Mark (R, Manchester)	3.4%	6
Gould, Linda (R, Bedford)	3.3%	8
Mannion, Tim (R, Pelham)	3.3%	2
Drye, Margaret (R, Plainfield)	3.1%	8
Kelley, Diane (R, Temple)	3.1%	8
Vose, Michael (R, Epping)	3.1%	8
Morency, Pete (R, Berlin)	3.1%	5
Fedolfi, Jim (R, Hillsborough)	3.0%	4
Rollins, Skip (R, Newport)	2.8%	7
Khan, Aboul (R, Seabrook)	2.7%	7
Corcoran, Travis (R, Weare)	2.7%	6
Rhodes, Jennifer (R, Winchester)	2.6%	5
McMahon, Charles (R, Windham)	2.5%	6
Alexander, Joe (R, Goffstown)	2.4%	6
Walker, David (R, Rochester)	2.4%	6
Ploszaj, Tom (R, Center Harbor)	2.3%	6
Walsh, Lilli (R, Hampstead )	2.3%	6
Aldrich, Glen (R, Gilford)	2.3%	5
Hemingway, Wayne (R, Claremont)	2.1%	5
Kuttab, Katelyn (R, Windham)	2.1%	5
Rice, Kimberly (R, Hudson)	2.1%	4
Lascelles, Richard (R, Litchfield)	2.0%	5
Litchfield, Melissa (R, Brentwood)	2.0%	5
Osborne, Jason (R, Auburn)	2.0%	5
Prudhomme-O’Brien, Katherine (R, Derry)	2.0%	5
Comtois, Barbara (R, Barnstead)	2.0%	4
Harrington, Michael (R, Strafford)	2.0%	4
Aron, Michael (R, Acworth)	1.9%	5
Mannion, Tom (R, Pelham)	1.9%	5
Paquette, Kathleen (R, Manchester)	1.8%	4
Dupont, Pierre (R, Manchester)	1.7%	4
Smith, Jonathan (R, Ossipee)	1.7%	3
Ammon, Keith (R, New Boston)	1.6%	4
Aron, Judy (R, Acworth)	1.6%	4
Beaulier, Calvin (R, Littleton)	1.6%	4
Belcher, Mike (R, Wakefield)	1.6%	4
Morton, Jonathan (R, Manchester)	1.6%	4
Ohm, Bill (R, Nashua)	1.6%	4
Polozov, Yury (R, Hooksett)	1.6%	4
Wilson, Vicki (R, Sandown)	1.6%	4
Creighton, James (R, Antrim)	1.5%	3
Bogert, Steven (R, Laconia)	1.4%	3
Katsakiores, Phyllis (R, Derry)	1.4%	3
Love, David (R, Derry)	1.4%	3
Seaworth, Brian (R, Pembroke)	1.4%	3
Thackston, Dick (R, Troy)	1.4%	2
Popovici-Muller, Daniel (R, Windham)	1.3%	3
Scully, Kevin (R, Nashua)	1.3%	3
Sellers, John (R, Bristol)	1.3%	3
Turcotte, Len (R, Barrington)	1.3%	3
Toner, Travis (R, Belmont)	1.3%	2
Berezhny, Lex (R, Grafton)	1.2%	3
Burnham, Claudine (R, Milton)	1.2%	3
DeRoy, Susan (R, New Durham)	1.2%	3
Edwards, Jess (R, Auburn)	1.2%	3
Mehegan, Peter (R, Pembroke)	1.2%	3
Noble, Kristin (R, Bedford)	1.2%