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Eric R. Eastman
Eric Eastman is a former Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing District Hillsborough 28 from 2014 to 2016.
Committee assignments
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Eastman served on the following committees:
| New Hampshire committee assignments, 2015 |
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| • State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs |
Sponsored legislation
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
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.
The following candidates ran in the New Hampshire House of Representatives District Hillsborough 28 general election.[1][2]
| New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 28 General Election, 2016 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  Carl Seidel Incumbent |
17.22% | 2,482 | |
| Democratic | Jan Schmidt |
17.00% | 2,451 | |
| Republican | Elizabeth Ferreira Incumbent |
16.79% | 2,420 | |
| Democratic | Sylvia Gale | 16.75% | 2,414 | |
| Republican | Eric R. Eastman Incumbent | 16.25% | 2,342 | |
| Democratic | Pam Swersky | 15.99% | 2,305 | |
| Total Votes | 14,414 | |||
| Source: New Hampshire Secretary of State | ||||
Sylvia Gale, Jan Schmidt, and Pam Swersky were unopposed in the New Hampshire House of Representatives District Hillsborough 28 Democratic primary.[3][4]
| New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 28 Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | |
| Democratic | Sylvia Gale | |
| Democratic | Jan Schmidt | |
| Democratic | Pam Swersky | |
Incumbent Eric R. Eastman, incumbent Elizabeth Ferreira, and incumbent Carl Seidel defeated Ryan Lawes in the New Hampshire House of Representatives District Hillsborough 28 Republican primary.[3][4]
| New Hampshire House of Representatives, District Hillsborough 28 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Eric R. Eastman Incumbent |
22.87% | 331 | |
| Republican | Elizabeth Ferreira Incumbent |
27.37% | 396 | |
| Republican | Carl Seidel Incumbent |
38.08% | 551 | |
| Republican | Ryan Lawes | 11.68% | 169 | |
| Total Votes | 1,447 | |||
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. Incumbent Sylvia Gale, incumbent Jan Schmidt and Thomas D. Woodward were unopposed in the Democratic primary, while Eric R. Eastman, Elizabeth Ferreira and Carl Seidel were unopposed in the Republican primary. Gale, Schmidt, Woodward, Eastman, Ferreira and Seidel faced off in the general election.[5] Eastman, Ferreira, and Seidel defeated Gale, Schmidt, and Woodward in the general election.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Carl W. Seidel |
19% | 1,929 | |
| Republican | Elizabeth Ferreira |
17.6% | 1,793 | |
| Republican | Eric R. Eastman |
16.1% | 1,641 | |
| Democratic | Sylvia Gale Incumbent | 16.1% | 1,634 | |
| Democratic | Jan Schmidt Incumbent | 16% | 1,626 | |
| Democratic | Thomas D. Woodward | 15.3% | 1,552 | |
| Total Votes | 10,175 | |||
2012
Eastman ran for election in the 2012 election for New Hampshire House of Representatives Hillsborough 28. Eastman was defeated in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Sylvia Gale |
16.7% | 2,273 | |
| Democratic | Angeline Kopka |
16.5% | 2,241 | |
| Democratic | Jan Schmidt |
16.4% | 2,231 | |
| Republican | Sean McGuinness Incumbent | 16% | 2,177 | |
| Republican | Kevin Avard Incumbent | 15.9% | 2,159 | |
| Republican | Carl Seidel Incumbent | 15.3% | 2,071 | |
| Independent | Eric Eastman | 3.1% | 424 | |
| Total Votes | 13,576 | |||
Campaign finance summary
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Scorecards
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2016
In 2016, the New Hampshire General Court was in session from January 6 through June 1.
- Americans for Prosperity Foundation-New Hampshire- 2016 Legislative Scorecard
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to economic issues.
- Cornerstone Policy Research: 2015-2016 Legislative Scorecard
- Legislators are scored based on 15 roll call votes in the House and seven roll call votes in the Senate during the 2015-2016 session.
- Legislators are scored on how they voted on tax and fiscal legislation.
- New Hampshire Business and Industry Association: 2016 Legislative Scorecard
- Legislators are scored based on their votes on business legislation.
- New Hampshire Liberty Alliance: 2016 Liberty Rating report card
- Legislators are scored by the organization "on pro-liberty and anti-liberty roll call votes."
- New Hampshire National Federation of Independent Business: 2016 Voting Record
- Legislators are scored on their votes on small business issues.
- Legislators are scored based on if they voted with the Republican Party.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.
2015
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In 2015, the New Hampshire General Court was in session from January 7 to July 1.
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Recent news
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See also
- New Hampshire House of Representatives
- House Committees
- New Hampshire General Court
- New Hampshire state legislative districts
External links
- Profile from the New Hampshire House of Representatives
- Profile from Open States
- New Hampshire General Court
- Primary candidate list for 2014
Footnotes
- ↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State, "General Election - November 8, 2016," accessed October 25, 2016
- ↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State, "General Election Results - 2016," accessed December 23, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 New Hampshire Secretary of State, "State Primary - September 13, 2016," accessed June 22, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 New Hampshire Secretary of State, "2016 Primary election results," accessed November 21, 2016
- ↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State, "2014 Filing Period," accessed July 1, 2014
- ↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State, "State Representative - 2014 General Election," accessed November 16, 2014
- ↑ New Hampshire Secretary of State, "Qualified Candidates for 2012 General Election," accessed October 26, 2012
