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Mike Belcher
2022 - Present
2026
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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]
Sponsored legislation
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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 | ||
✔ | Lino Avellani (R) | 38.4 | 3,600 | |
✔ | 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 | ||
✔ | Lino Avellani | 52.2 | 1,023 | |
✔ | Mike Belcher | 45.4 | 888 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 2.4 | 47 |
Total votes: 1,958 | ||||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Belcher in this election.
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 | ||
✔ | Lino Avellani (R) | 31.2 | 2,771 | |
✔ | Mike Belcher (R) ![]() | 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 | ||
✔ | Lino Avellani | 53.2 | 979 | |
✔ | Mike Belcher ![]() | 46.1 | 849 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 13 |
Total votes: 1,841 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2024
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2022
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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|- 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 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.
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.
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2024
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In 2024, the New Hampshire State Legislature was in session from January 3 to June 13.
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2023
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In 2023, the New Hampshire State Legislature was in session from January 4 to June 29.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Candidate New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 |
Officeholder New Hampshire House of Representatives Carroll 4 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 27, 2022
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The General Court of New Hampshire, "Representative Mike Belcher (R)," accessed May 18, 2023