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How New Hampshire works

Finding your representatives

By town and by district, and what the district numbering means.

Every resident has one senator and at least one representative, and most have several representatives, because House districts are drawn to towns rather than to equal population.

What the district numbering means

A House district is written as a county and a number — Rockingham 13, Hillsborough 44. The number is not a rank or a size; it is just an index within that county, and it is redrawn every ten years after the census. A district may be one town, part of a town, or several small towns together, and a district covering several towns elects several representatives at large across the whole of it.

Senate districts are numbered 1 to 24 statewide and cut across county lines.

Floterial districts

Some towns are in two House districts at once. A floterial district sits on top of several ordinary ones and elects an additional member or two across the whole of it, which is how the state gets closer to equal representation without splitting small towns.

If you live in one, you have more representatives than you might expect: the members of your own district, plus the floterial members shared with neighbouring towns. Of New Hampshire's 203 House districts, 41 are floterial, and they account for 65 of the 400 seats.

Getting in touch

Members publish an address and, for nearly all of them, an email. There is no staff between you and them: a message to a representative is read by that representative. They are also, mostly, working 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.

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