WMUR has been very slow to update any number of New Hampshire’s State-level races (as final), so I bypassed the bias and went straight to the Secretary of State’s Web Site. We knew we took majorities all across the board, and I wanted the real numbers.
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Why? The irony, electoral justice, and to poke fun and their persistent and annoying street theater.
For the past two years, Democrats had a 14-10 majority in the upper chamber and used it to push all manner of left-wing foolishness. Gov. Sununu embraced a few bills we’d have rather he vetoed but overall did a great job of blocking the stupid that kept pouring out of the Democrat-run legisalture.
To make a case that this was bad, Democrat activists set up a graveyard. They wrote the numbers of the bills Chris Sununu vetoed on each tombstone. We called the graveyard “campaigning for Gov. Sununu,” and we were right!
And the irony is glorious. The display’s centerpiece was a coffin. A pine box that gets around for other goofy left-wing crap, like this extinction rebellion display. Note to left – guess what ended up extinct and in the coffin?
Democrat majorities in New Hampshire government.
We won back the House, the Executive Council, and the State Senate, which I’ll focus on here.
State Senate
Republicans now have a 14-10 majority with a few “close” races. I have asked the NH Secretary of State if there are any recount requests but had not received a response in time for publication. I don’t think we’ll see that, but I’ll update the post if that is not correct.
Democrats won the federal races but had a red wave at the local level. But what will they do with it?
History has not been kind, but perhaps they will surprise us.
Feel free to apply constant pressure just in case. We will.
Here are the final results from the NH Sec. of State for the NH State Senate. Congratulations.
[*Update] Democrat Melanie Levesque has requested a recount. This comes from a Nashua resident, the Secretary of State’s office never got back to me. (Levesque needs to bridge an 800 vote gap.)
| State Senate | Republican | Democrat | Winner |
| District 1 | 15741 | 11738 | Erin Hennessey, r |
| District 2 | 17661 | 13974 | Bob Giuda, r |
| District 3 | 22806 | 13826 | Jeb Bradley, r |
| District 4 | 12107 | 19228 | David H. Watters, d |
| District 5 | 10295 | 20418 | Suzanne M. Prentiss, d |
| District 6 | 17290 | 12638 | James P. Gray, r |
| District 7 | 17801 | 12907 | Harold F. French, r |
| District 8 | 18903 | 15114 | Ruth Ward, r |
| District 9 | 17779 | 17652 | Denise Ricciardi, r |
| District 10 | 11297 | 18860 | Jay Kahn, d |
| District 11 | 17457 | 17259 | Gary L. Daniels, r |
| District 12 | 17477 | 16672 | Kevin Avard, r |
| District 13 | 11042 | 15611 | Cindy Rosenwald, d |
| District 14 | 19082 | 13330 | Sharon M. Carson, r |
| District 15 | 11243 | 19462 | Becky Whitley, d |
| District 16 | 15986 | 17165 | Kevin J. Cavanaugh, d |
| District 17 | 20317 | 13488 | John Reagan, r |
| District 18 | 11355 | 14105 | Donna M. Soucy, d |
| District 19 | 18263 | 13477 | Regina Birdsell, r |
| District 20 | 10479 | 13548 | Lou D’Allesandro, d |
| District 21 | 10717 | 21827 | Rebecca Perkins Kwoka, d |
| District 22 | 22191 | 12073 | Chuck Morse, r |
| District 23 | 18627 | 16314 | Bill Gannon, r |
| District 24 | 18687 | 20527 | Tom Sherman, d |
| Total | 14 | 10 |
Originally posted 10:30 am 2020-11-05, updated and pumped at 5:30 pm 2020-11-05
