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Mike Belcher

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Mike Belcher
Image of Mike Belcher
New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4
Tenure

2022 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

2

Compensation

Base salary

$100/year

Per diem

$No per diem is paid

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

High school

Portsmouth High School

Personal
Birthplace
Portsmouth, N.H.
Religion
Christian: Baptist
Profession
Writer
Contact

Mike Belcher (Republican Party) is a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Carroll 4. He assumed office on December 7, 2022. His current term ends on December 2, 2026.

Belcher (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives to represent Carroll 4. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Mike Belcher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and lives in Wakefield, New Hampshire.[1][2] Belcher graduated from Portsmouth High School. His career experience includes working in heavy industry, as an EMT and paramedic with the Durham Ambulance Corps, and as a writer.[2]

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Belcher was assigned to the following committees:


Elections

2024

See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 (2 seats)

Incumbent Lino Avellani and incumbent Mike Belcher defeated Donna Ackerman in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lino Avellani
Lino Avellani (R)
 
38.4
 
3,600
Image of Mike Belcher
Mike Belcher (R)
 
34.5
 
3,232
Donna Ackerman (D)
 
27.1
 
2,542
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
7

Total votes: 9,381
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 (2 seats)

Donna Ackerman advanced from the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 on September 10, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Donna Ackerman
 
97.5
 
636
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.5
 
16

Total votes: 652
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 (2 seats)

Incumbent Lino Avellani and incumbent Mike Belcher advanced from the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 on September 10, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lino Avellani
Lino Avellani
 
52.2
 
1,023
Image of Mike Belcher
Mike Belcher
 
45.4
 
888
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.4
 
47

Total votes: 1,958
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Endorsements

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2022

See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 (2 seats)

Incumbent Lino Avellani and Mike Belcher defeated Knute Ogren and Max Gehring in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lino Avellani
Lino Avellani (R)
 
31.2
 
2,771
Image of Mike Belcher
Mike Belcher (R) Candidate Connection
 
29.7
 
2,636
Knute Ogren (D)
 
20.3
 
1,801
Max Gehring (D)
 
18.9
 
1,679

Total votes: 8,887
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 (2 seats)

Knute Ogren and Max Gehring advanced from the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 on September 13, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Knute Ogren
 
52.8
 
473
Max Gehring
 
46.3
 
415
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.9
 
8

Total votes: 896
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 (2 seats)

Incumbent Lino Avellani and Mike Belcher advanced from the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 on September 13, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lino Avellani
Lino Avellani
 
53.2
 
979
Image of Mike Belcher
Mike Belcher Candidate Connection
 
46.1
 
849
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.7
 
13

Total votes: 1,841
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Candidate Connection

Mike Belcher completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Belcher's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I'm a native Granite Stater living in the lake's region. I'm a Christian, writer, and I've been a teacher, paramedic, and wrench-turner. I'm now compelled to run for office to bring my unique knowledge and gifts to bear on the particular troubles of our time to affect real, conservative victories for NH citizens, families, and children.
  • Defeat the colonizing Woke religion, and it's grip on NH government, institutions, and families.
  • Protect children from the evils of modern culture, including the industrial-scale, institutional destruction of minor's sex organs ephamistically called "affirmation."
  • Protect NH citizens and families from ever-greater federal overreach, and top-down socio-political revolution.
I am deeply passionate about the Constitutionally affirmed natural rights due each citizen of the United States, and making sure the primary, and, perhaps, sole purpose of government is the protection of those rights.

I am very concerned with overcriminalization and want to bring back the understanding that each criminal law passed is done with the implicit gun of government aimed at citizens. As such, criminal laws should be limited to only those good and necessary, and those remaining should be vigorously enforced with an eye towards a proper balance of retributive, and rehabilitative justice.

I believe the most sure and proper defense of a State is the militia, that standing armies in peacetime are detrimental to liberty, and that each person is guaranteed the right to ownership and bearing of arms, and to self-militia.

I am deeply concerned with the cultural war on children through subversion in education, indoctrination, and media to destroy the concept of childhood innocence (viewed as an "oppressor" class in Marxian conflict theory, and therefore requiring an inversion). We have begun the institutionalization of industrial child abuse that will be viewed historically as an abomination on par with any historic atrocity. I have a plan to deal with this.

Foremost of my hopes is to effectively battle the colonization of American, and NH, by the Woke religion of Identity Marxism.
The Bible, as understood through Reformation theology, informed by the English Enlightenment, and preached during the Presbyterian Revolt (American Revolution).
A strict adherence to founding principles, and aversion to any manmade utopian pursuits is a start.
An elected legislator should be capable of understanding and drafting legislation - not simply be handed bills by third-party special interest groups.
The ideal relationship is that of professional adversarial, where the powers of each branch are guarded jealously, and only second to the liberty of the people. The governor should not, properly, have any ability to influence legislators against the interests of the people.
New Hampshire's greatest challenges will be in protecting NH citizens from federal overreach, pushing back against colonization by the Woke faith, and redefining our stance towards the federal government as primarily adversarial while properly reasserting the full measure of sovereignty possessed by the State of New Hampshire.

Second to that will be looking to stabilize the NH economy - quite likely as the US economy continues to falter - against serious inflation, wage reduction, and scarcity. This will require on-shoring of supply chains, looking to rapidly field modern, small nuclear generation, and increasing local agriculture. Much of this can be accomplished by dramatically reducing regulatory burdens that are unnecessary, and nanny-statist.
I've been struck by the rapid rise in families dependent on food assistance since the pandemic shutdowns, and now with inflation straining them farther. These problems were manmade, not natural. They are the direct result of bad, utopian leftist policies.
Yes. Emergency powers must dramatically be reined in by the legislature. Never again should state-wide, months-long house arrest of healthy persons happen on NH soil.
It's very important to recognize that compromise can be necessary, and that the good is not necessarily the enemy of the perfect. However, no compromise should ever bring the broad goals below the threshold of victory. No compromise should ever be made on the basis of being reelected - there's no point in being elected at all if that's what you intend to do.

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Campaign finance summary


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Mike Belcher campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4Won general$1,225 $0
2022New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4Won general$2,205 $0
Grand total$3,430 $0
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

Scorecards

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 27, 2022
  2. 2.0 2.1 The General Court of New Hampshire, "Representative Mike Belcher (R)," accessed May 18, 2023


Representatives
Belknap 1
Belknap 2
Belknap 3
Belknap 4
Belknap 7
Belknap 8
Carroll 1
Tom Buco (D)
Carroll 2
Carroll 3
Carroll 4
Carroll 5
Carroll 6
Carroll 7
Carroll 8
Cheshire 1
Cheshire 10
Cheshire 11
Cheshire 12
Cheshire 13
Cheshire 14
John Hunt (R)
Cheshire 15
Cheshire 16
Cheshire 17
Cheshire 18
Cheshire 2
Dru Fox (D)
Cheshire 3
Cheshire 4
Cheshire 5
Cheshire 6
Cheshire 7
Cheshire 8
Cheshire 9
Coos 1
Coos 2
Coos 3
Coos 4
Seth King (R)
Coos 5
Coos 6
Coos 7
Grafton 10
Grafton 11
Grafton 13
Grafton 14
Grafton 15
Grafton 16
Grafton 17
Grafton 18
Grafton 2
Grafton 3
Grafton 4
Grafton 6
Grafton 7
Grafton 8
Grafton 9
Hillsborough 1
Hillsborough 10
Bill Ohm (R)
Hillsborough 11
Hillsborough 14
Hillsborough 15
Hillsborough 16
Hillsborough 17
Hillsborough 18
Hillsborough 19
Matt Drew (R)
Hillsborough 20
Hillsborough 21
Hillsborough 22
Hillsborough 23
Hillsborough 24
Hillsborough 25
Hillsborough 26
Hillsborough 27
Hillsborough 28
Keith Erf (R)
Hillsborough 29
Hillsborough 3
Hillsborough 30
Hillsborough 31
Hillsborough 32
Hillsborough 33
Hillsborough 34
Hillsborough 35
Hillsborough 36
Hillsborough 37
Hillsborough 38
Hillsborough 39
Hillsborough 4
Hillsborough 40
Hillsborough 41
Lily Foss (D)
Hillsborough 42
Lisa Post (R)
Hillsborough 43
Hillsborough 44
Hillsborough 45
Hillsborough 5
Hillsborough 6
Hillsborough 7
Hillsborough 8
Hillsborough 9
Merrimack 1
Merrimack 10
Merrimack 11
Merrimack 12
Merrimack 13
Merrimack 14
Merrimack 15
Merrimack 16
Merrimack 17
Merrimack 18
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Merrimack 2
Merrimack 20
Merrimack 21
Merrimack 22
Merrimack 23
Merrimack 24
Merrimack 25
Merrimack 26
Alvin See (R)
Merrimack 27
Merrimack 28
Merrimack 29
Merrimack 3
Merrimack 30
Merrimack 4
Merrimack 5
Merrimack 6
Merrimack 7
Merrimack 8
Merrimack 9
Rockingham 1
Rockingham 10
Rockingham 11
Rockingham 12
Zoe Manos (D)
Rockingham 14
Pam Brown (R)
Rockingham 15
Rockingham 18
Rockingham 19
Rockingham 2
Rockingham 20
Rockingham 21
Rockingham 22
Rockingham 23
Rockingham 24
Rockingham 26
Rockingham 27
Rockingham 28
Rockingham 29
Rockingham 3
Mary Ford (R)
Rockingham 30
Rockingham 31
Terry Roy (R)
Rockingham 32
Rockingham 33
Rockingham 34
Rockingham 35
Rockingham 36
Rockingham 37
Rockingham 38
Rockingham 39
Rockingham 4
Rockingham 40
Rockingham 5
Rockingham 6
Rockingham 7
Rockingham 8
Rockingham 9
Strafford 1
Strafford 11
Strafford 13
Strafford 14
Strafford 15
Strafford 16
Strafford 17
Strafford 18
Strafford 19
Strafford 20
Strafford 21
Luz Bay (D)
Strafford 3
Strafford 4
Strafford 5
Strafford 6
Strafford 7
Strafford 8
Strafford 9
Sullivan 1
Sullivan 2
Sullivan 3
Sullivan 4
Judy Aron (R)
Sullivan 5
Sullivan 6
Sullivan 7
Sullivan 8
Republican Party (219)
Democratic Party (177)
Independent (1)