New Hampshire US Senate 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in New Hampshire.
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What the New Hampshire US Senate election decides
The Senate confirms federal judges and cabinet officers, ratifies treaties, and can stop legislation the House passes. With a six-year term and a hundred-member chamber, a single seat is a larger share of the institution than any House district, which is why Senate races draw national money into state contests.
Each state sends two senators regardless of population, so this seat carries the same weight as California's or Wyoming's. New Hampshire voters fill it alongside all 2 of the state's House seats and the governorship, and a Senate term runs six years, spanning two future Congresses and, in this case, the next presidential election.
How New Hampshire votes
New Hampshire prizes its first-in-the-nation primary tradition and low-tax identity. With no state income or sales tax, its politics turn on property taxes, education funding and housing, and its small electorate swings between the parties. That backdrop is the ground any New Hampshire campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 United States Senate election in New Hampshire were held on November 3, 2026 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of New Hampshire. Democratic representative Chris Pappas defeated Republican former senator John Sununu. Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen did not seek a fourth term.
Primary elections were held on September 8. Pappas won the Democratic nomination with 65% of the vote against medical scientist Karishma Manzur. Sununu, who held the seat for one term until he was defeated by Shaheen in 2008, won the Republican primary nomination with 68.5% of the vote against former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown.
Pappas is the first openly gay man elected to the Senate.
Latest coverage of the New Hampshire US Senate race
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Every New Hampshire House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the New Hampshire state page.
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Analysis covering New Hampshire
Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026
The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.
The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states
Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.