New Hampshire: who should earn your vote for Congress in 2026
Opinion · The paper’s scorecard
New Hampshire: every race for Congress on the 3 November 2026 ballot, and how the candidates measure up against our standards.
Sitting and former members are scored on the same key votes, read from the official House and Senate roll calls; each vote links to the record. Candidates who have never served in Congress have no votes to score, and outside the battlegrounds we have not researched them, so they are marked as not scored. Where only one candidate could be measured, the mark rates that record on its own; it is not a verdict on the opponent. How the marks work · All states
U.S. Senate D+2
No endorsement
A battleground: read our full case, with every source.
Jeanne Shaheen (D): incumbent retiring.
District 1 D+2
No mark
Chris Pappas (D): incumbent retiring to run for u.
Anthony DiLorenzo
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
Stefany Shaheen
Democrat
No congressional voting record; not scored
District 2 D+2
✓ Meets our standards: Maggie Goodlander
Meets our standards
Maggie Goodlander
Democrat · incumbent
Scored on 11 key votes · total +3
- ✗Smaller government
- ✗Small business over giants
- ?Live and let live
- ✓Light touch on tech
- ?Free speech
- ✓No surveillance state
- ✓Home first, open trade
- ✓Checks on power
- ?Right to bear arms
- ✓Hard on violent crime
With us (8)
Lily Tang Williams
Republican
No congressional voting record; not scored
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