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Patricia Cornell
Image of Patricia Cornell
New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22
Tenure

2022 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

2

Prior offices
New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18

Compensation

Base salary

$100/year

Per diem

$No per diem is paid

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

University of New Hampshire

Graduate

University of New Hampshire

Contact

Patricia Cornell (Democratic Party) is a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing Hillsborough 22. She assumed office on December 7, 2022. Her current term ends on December 2, 2026.

Cornell (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives to represent Hillsborough 22. She won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Patricia Cornell lives in Manchester, New Hampshire. Cornell earned a B.A. in social work and M.Ed. in counseling from the University of New Hampshire. Her career experience includes working as a middle school guidance counselor. Cornell has served on the Manchester Water Works Commission and as a Manchester City Library Trustee.[1]

Committee assignments

Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at: editor@ballotpedia.org.

2023-2024

Cornell was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Cornell was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Cornell was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

New Hampshire committee assignments, 2017
• Education

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Cornell served on the following committees:

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.


Elections

2024

See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and incumbent Nicole Leapley defeated Bill Gabler and Karl Beisel in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell (D)
 
27.4
 
1,720
Image of Nicole Leapley
Nicole Leapley (D)
 
25.7
 
1,614
Bill Gabler (R)
 
24.7
 
1,550
Karl Beisel (R)
 
22.3
 
1,401
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.0
 
2

Total votes: 6,287
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and incumbent Nicole Leapley defeated Matthew Ping in the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 on September 10, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell
 
48.7
 
397
Image of Nicole Leapley
Nicole Leapley
 
41.9
 
342
Matthew Ping
 
9.1
 
74
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
3

Total votes: 816
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 (2 seats)

Bill Gabler and Karl Beisel advanced from the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 on September 10, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Bill Gabler
 
51.0
 
293
Karl Beisel
 
47.7
 
274
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.2
 
7

Total votes: 574
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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 Hillsborough 22 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and Nicole Leapley defeated Carla Gericke and Brittany LeClear-Ping in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell (D)
 
28.6
 
1,225
Image of Nicole Leapley
Nicole Leapley (D)
 
27.9
 
1,196
Image of Carla Gericke
Carla Gericke (R)
 
22.5
 
966
Image of Brittany LeClear-Ping
Brittany LeClear-Ping (R)
 
20.9
 
897

Total votes: 4,284
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and Nicole Leapley defeated Sara Lachance in the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 on September 13, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell
 
45.2
 
262
Image of Nicole Leapley
Nicole Leapley
 
35.5
 
206
Sara Lachance
 
19.1
 
111
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
1

Total votes: 580
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 (2 seats)

Carla Gericke and Brittany LeClear-Ping advanced from the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22 on September 13, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Carla Gericke
Carla Gericke
 
53.2
 
284
Image of Brittany LeClear-Ping
Brittany LeClear-Ping
 
44.4
 
237
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.4
 
13

Total votes: 534
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2020

See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and incumbent Willis Griffith defeated Brian Chicoine and Brittany LeClear-Ping in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell (D)
 
32.2
 
1,985
Willis Griffith (D)
 
27.1
 
1,670
Brian Chicoine (R)
 
20.5
 
1,263
Image of Brittany LeClear-Ping
Brittany LeClear-Ping (R)
 
20.2
 
1,248
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.0
 
1

Total votes: 6,167
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and incumbent Willis Griffith defeated Sara Lachance, Chloe Sowers, and Matthew Ping in the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 on September 8, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell
 
36.6
 
326
Willis Griffith
 
24.0
 
214
Sara Lachance
 
21.8
 
194
Image of Chloe Sowers
Chloe Sowers
 
10.6
 
94
Matthew Ping
 
6.9
 
61
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
1

Total votes: 890
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 (2 seats)

Brian Chicoine and Brittany LeClear-Ping advanced from the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 on September 8, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Brian Chicoine
 
55.7
 
305
Image of Brittany LeClear-Ping
Brittany LeClear-Ping
 
42.9
 
235
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.5
 
8

Total votes: 548
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2018

See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and Willis Griffith defeated Brittany LeClear-Ping and Joshua Holmes in the general election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell (D)
 
31.3
 
1,260
Willis Griffith (D)
 
27.9
 
1,121
Image of Brittany LeClear-Ping
Brittany LeClear-Ping (R)
 
20.4
 
822
Joshua Holmes (R)
 
20.3
 
817
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.0
 
1

Total votes: 4,021
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 (2 seats)

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and Willis Griffith defeated Matthew Ping in the Democratic primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 on September 11, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Patricia Cornell
Patricia Cornell
 
51.2
 
397
Willis Griffith
 
31.7
 
246
Matthew Ping
 
17.1
 
133

Total votes: 776
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 (2 seats)

Joshua Holmes and Brittany LeClear-Ping advanced from the Republican primary for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 on September 11, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Joshua Holmes
 
54.8
 
230
Image of Brittany LeClear-Ping
Brittany LeClear-Ping
 
45.2
 
190

Total votes: 420
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2016

See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for the New Hampshire House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 13, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 10, 2016.

Incumbent Patricia Cornell and incumbent Armand D. Forest defeated Albert Evarts and Jordan B. Gamache in the New Hampshire House of Representatives District Hillsborough 18 general election.[2][3]

New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 18 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Patricia Cornell Incumbent 31.49% 1,597
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Armand D. Forest Incumbent 25.02% 1,269
     Republican Albert Evarts 19.70% 999
     Republican Jordan B. Gamache 23.78% 1,206
Total Votes 5,071
Source: New Hampshire Secretary of State


Incumbent Patricia Cornell and incumbent Armand D. Forest defeated Jared Dubravsky and Matthew Ping in the New Hampshire House of Representatives District Hillsborough 18 Democratic primary.[4][5]

New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 18 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Patricia Cornell Incumbent 45.97% 234
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Armand D. Forest Incumbent 31.63% 161
     Democratic Jared Dubravsky 9.04% 46
     Democratic Matthew Ping 13.36% 68
Total Votes 509


Albert Evarts and Jordan B. Gamache were unopposed in the New Hampshire House of Representatives District Hillsborough 18 Republican primary.[4][5]

New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 18 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Albert Evarts
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Jordan B. Gamache

2014

See also: New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for the New Hampshire House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on September 9, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 13, 2014. Patricia Cornell and Armand D. Forest were unopposed in the Democratic primary, while incumbent Emily Sandblade and Jordan B. Gamache were unopposed in the Republican primary. Cornell, Forest, Sandblade and Gamache faced off in the general election.[6] The two Democratic challengers Cornell and Forest defeated Gamache and incumbent Sandblade in the general election.[7]

New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18 District, General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngPatricia Cornell 26.2% 796
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngArmand D. Forest 26% 789
     Republican Emily Sandblade Incumbent 24.1% 731
     Republican Jordan B. Gamache 23.3% 708
     NA Scatter 0.3% 10
Total Votes 3,034

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Patricia Cornell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Patricia Cornell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Patricia Cornell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary


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Patricia Cornell campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22Won general$1,225 $0
2022New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 22Won general$1,026 $0
2020New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18Won general$660 N/A**
2018New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 18Won general$890 N/A**
2016New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 18Won $750 N/A**
2014New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 18Won $0 N/A**
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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