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A Democratic Party primary took place on September 13, 2022, in New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 8, 2022.

Incumbent Annie Kuster advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Hampshire District 2.

Candidate filing deadline	Primary election	General election
June 10, 2022	September 13, 2022	November 8, 2022

A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. New Hampshire uses a semi-closed primary system. Unaffiliated voters may vote in the primary, but in order to do so, they have to choose a party before voting. This changes their status from unaffiliated to affiliated with that party unless they fill out a card to return to undeclared status.^[1]^[2]^[3]

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:

Candidates and election results

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House New Hampshire District 2

Incumbent Annie Kuster advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New Hampshire District 2 on September 13, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Annie Kuster	99.3	48,630
	Other/Write-in votes	0.7	324

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 48,954
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Ballot access requirements

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in New Hampshire in the 2022 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in New Hampshire, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
New Hampshire	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	100	$50.00	6/10/2022	Source
New Hampshire	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	1,500	$50.00	6/10/2022	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

District map - A map of the district before and after redistricting.
Effect of redistricting - How districts in the state changed as a result of redistricting following the 2020 census.
Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
Demographics - Information about the state's demographics and how they compare to the country as a whole.
State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

District map

	2024 → ← 2020
New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District
	Democratic primary; Republican primary; General election
Election details
	Filing deadline: June 10, 2022
	Primary: September 13, 2022; General: November 8, 2022
How to vote
	Poll times: Varies by municipality; Voting in New Hampshire
Race ratings
	Cook Partisan Voter Index (2022): D+2; Cook Political Report: Lean Democratic; Inside Elections: Likely Democratic; Sabato's Crystal Ball: Likely Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
	U.S. Senate battlegrounds; U.S. House battlegrounds; Federal and state primary competitiveness; Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2022
See also
	New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District; U.S. Senate • 1st • 2nd; New Hampshire elections, 2022; U.S. Congress elections, 2022; U.S. Senate elections, 2022; U.S. House elections, 2022; Alabama U.S. House racesAlaska U.S. House racesArizona U.S. House racesArkansas U.S. House racesCalifornia U.S. House racesColorado U.S. House racesConnecticut U.S. House racesDelaware U.S. House racesFlorida U.S. House racesGeorgia U.S. House racesHawaii U.S. House racesIdaho U.S. House racesIllinois U.S. House racesIndiana U.S. House racesIowa U.S. House racesKansas U.S. House racesKentucky U.S. House racesLouisiana U.S. House racesMaine U.S. House racesMaryland U.S. House racesMassachusetts U.S. House racesMichigan U.S. House racesMinnesota U.S. House racesMississippi U.S. House racesMissouri U.S. House racesMontana U.S. House racesNebraska U.S. House racesNevada U.S. House racesNew Hampshire U.S. House racesNew Jersey U.S. House racesNew Mexico U.S. House racesNew York U.S. House racesNorth Carolina U.S. House racesNorth Dakota U.S. House racesOhio U.S. House racesOklahoma U.S. House racesOregon U.S. House racesPennsylvania U.S. House racesRhode Island U.S. House racesSouth Carolina U.S. House racesSouth Dakota U.S. House racesTennessee U.S. House racesTexas U.S. House racesUtah U.S. House racesVermont U.S. House racesVirginia U.S. House racesWashington U.S. House racesWest Virginia U.S. House racesWisconsin U.S. House racesWyoming U.S. House racesSubmit

Below was the map in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the map in place before the election.

New Hampshire District 2
until January 2, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.

New Hampshire District 2
starting January 3, 2023

Click a district to compare boundaries.

Effect of redistricting

See also: Redistricting in New Hampshire after the 2020 census

The table below details the results of the 2020 presidential election in each district at the time of the 2022 election and its political predecessor district.^[4] This data was compiled by Daily Kos Elections.^[5]

2020 presidential results by Congressional district, New Hampshire
District	2022 district		Political predecessor district
District	Joe Biden	Donald Trump	Joe Biden	Donald Trump
New Hampshire's 1st	52.2%	46.2%	52.2%	46.2%
New Hampshire's 2nd	53.6%	44.7%	53.5%	44.8%

Competitiveness

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2022

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in New Hampshire.

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in New Hampshire in 2022. Information below was calculated on Augusr 2, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Nineteen candidates filed to run for New Hampshire's two U.S. House districts, including two Democrats and 17 Republicans. That's 9.5 candidates per district, more than the six candidates per district in 2020 and fewer than the 12.5 in 2018.

This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. New Hampshire was apportioned two districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.

The 19 candidates who ran this year were seven more than the 12 who ran in 2020 and six fewer than the 25 who ran in 2018. Fourteen candidates ran in 2016, and 10 ran in 2014 and 2012.

Incumbents Chris Pappas (D-1st) and Annie Kuster (D-2nd) both filed to run for re-election, meaning there were no open seats this year. The last year there was an open U.S. House seat in New Hampshire was 2018. Neither incumbent faced a primary challenger.

There were two contested primaries this year, both Republican. That was fewer than the three contested primaries in 2020 and 2018, and the same number as in 2016, 2014, and 2012. Eleven candidates filed to run in the 1st district, the most candidates running for a seat this year. Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in both districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year.

Presidential elections

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2022 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+2. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 2 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made New Hampshire's 2nd the 200th most Democratic district nationally.^[6]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in New Hampshire's 2nd based on 2022 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
53.6%	44.7%

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in New Hampshire, 2020

New Hampshire presidential election results (1900-2020)

13 Democratic wins
18 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	D	D	D	D	D

Demographics

The table below details demographic data in New Hampshire and compares it to the broader United States as of 2019.

Demographic Data for New Hampshire
	New Hampshire	United States
Population	1,377,529	331,449,281
Land area (sq mi)	8,953	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White	92%	70.4%
Black/African American	1.6%	12.6%
Asian	2.7%	5.6%
Native American	0.2%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	0%	0.2%
Other (single race)	0.6%	5.1%
Multiple	2.9%	5.2%
Hispanic/Latino	3.9%	18.2%
Education
High school graduation rate	93.3%	88.5%
College graduation rate	37.6%	32.9%
Income
Median household income	$77,923	$64,994
Persons below poverty level	7.4%	12.8%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2015-2020).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

State party control

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of New Hampshire's congressional delegation as of November 2022.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from New Hampshire, November 2022
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	2	4
Republican	0	0	0
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	2	4

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in New Hampshire's top three state executive offices as of November 2022.

State executive officials in New Hampshire, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Chris Sununu
Secretary of State	David Scanlan
Attorney General	John Formella

State legislature

The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the New Hampshire General Court as of November 2022.

New Hampshire State Senate

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	10
	Republican Party	13
	Vacancies	1
Total		24

New Hampshire House of Representatives

Party		As of November 2022
	Democratic Party	177
	Republican Party	202
	Independent	1
	Vacancies	20
Total		400

Trifecta control

As of November 2022, New Hampshire was a Republican trifecta, with majorities in both chambers of the state legislature and control of the governorship. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.

New Hampshire Party Control: 1992-2022
Four years of Democratic trifectas • Eleven years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Governor	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R
Senate	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	S	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R
House	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R

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Footnotes

↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed April 25, 2023
↑ Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.
↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State,"Voting in Party Primaries," accessed April 25, 2023
↑ Political predecessor districts are determined primarily based on incumbents and where each chose to seek re-election.
↑ Daily Kos Elections, "Daily Kos Elections 2020 presidential results by congressional district (old CDs vs. new CDs)," accessed May 12, 2022
↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed February 6, 2023

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New Hampshire's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Maggie Hassan (D)

Jeanne Shaheen (D)

Representatives

District 1

Chris Pappas (D)

District 2

Maggie Goodlander (D)

Democratic Party (4)

[1] NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed April 25, 2023

[2] Ballotpedia research conducted December 26, 2013, through January 3, 2014, researching and analyzing various state websites and codes.

[3] New Hampshire Secretary of State,"Voting in Party Primaries," accessed April 25, 2023

[4] Political predecessor districts are determined primarily based on incumbents and where each chose to seek re-election.

[5] Daily Kos Elections, "Daily Kos Elections 2020 presidential results by congressional district (old CDs vs. new CDs)," accessed May 12, 2022

[6] Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed February 6, 2023

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New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022 (September 13 Democratic primary)

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