Finding Your Representatives
By town and by district, and what the district numbering means.
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House and Senate Districts
New Hampshire is divided into 203 House districts and 24 Senate districts. Every resident lives in one Senate district and in at least one House district, set by the town or ward they live in.
Most places have more than one state representative: 264 of the 320 towns and city wards, either because their own district elects several members, or because a floterial district is laid over it, or both. The districts are built from whole towns and wards — the constitution forbids the legislature to divide a town, ward or place when it draws them — and within that limit representation is to be "as equal as circumstances will admit" (Part II, Article 9).
Everyone Who Represents One Town
This is every seat a voter in one town elects, from the most local to the whole state. The town is Danville, because its layers nest cleanly and show a floterial district plainly.
| Seat | District | Members | Elected by |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House — Danville's own district | Rockingham 8 | 1 | Danville voters alone |
| State House — floterialLaid over 3 districts | Rockingham 32 | 1 | Danville, Brentwood and Fremont together |
| State Senate | District 23 | 1 | Danville and 11 other towns |
| Executive Council | District 3 | 1 | Danville and 31 other towns and cities |
| US House | District 1 | 1 | Danville and 74 other towns and cities |
| US Senate | The whole state | 2 | Every voter in New Hampshire |
Who holds each of those seats today is on Danville's own page, and every other town and ward has one like it.
What the District Numbering Means
A House district is written as a county and a number: Rockingham 13, Hillsborough 44, or abbreviated to Rock 13. The number is not a rank or a size. It is an index within that county, and the map is redrawn every ten years after the federal census.
A district may be a single town, one or more wards of a city, several towns together, or a city's wards joined with neighboring towns. Where it has more than one seat, its members are elected at large across the whole of it, not one to each town. The largest elects 10 representatives.
Senate districts are numbered 1 to 24 across the whole state rather than by county, and many cross county lines. Each elects one senator, and district 22 is written SD22.
What a Floterial District Is
A floterial district is a House district laid exactly over two or more neighboring House districts in the same county, each of which already elects its own members. It elects one or more additional members across all of them together. Danville's is laid over three districts.
Rockingham 32, floterial: 1 seat, elected by Brentwood, Fremont and Danville together
- Rockingham 6Brentwood1 seat
- Rockingham 7Fremont1 seat
- Rockingham 8Danville1 seat
A town's population is rarely an exact multiple of what one seat is worth, and the constitution will not let the legislature split a town to even it out. A floterial is where those remainders are pooled instead.
If you live in one of those towns or wards, you are represented by both: the members of your own district, and the floterial members you share with the towns or wards around you. 39 of the 203 House districts are floterial, and they account for 58 of the 400 seats.
The statute that sets out the districts, RSA 662:5, never uses the word floterial. It simply lists each district's towns and its seats. A floterial shows up there as a district covering exactly the same towns as two or more of the county's other districts put together — Rockingham 32 is Rockingham 6, 7 and 8 combined. Every one of the 39 districts this site marks as floterial passes that test against the statute.
How to Contact a Member
404 of the 406 sitting members publish an email address in the General Court's directory. Almost none have staff, so a message to a representative is read by that representative. Most have other jobs.
In the Record
Every member of both chambers, with their district, party and county, and every recorded vote they have cast.
Every committee page lists its members and has a button that opens an email to all of them at once.