New Hampshire's 1st congressional district

New Hampshire's 1st congressional district
Current Representative		Carol Shea-Porter (D–Rochester)
Distribution	66.69% urban, 33.31% rural
Population (2010)	657,984
Median income	$61,948
Ethnicity	93.9% White, 1.3% Black, 2.0% Asian, 2.8% Hispanic, 0.2% Native American
Cook PVI	EVEN

New Hampshire's 1st congressional district covers the southeastern part of New Hampshire. The district consists of three general areas: Greater Manchester, the Seacoast and the Lakes Region.

It is represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Carol Shea-Porter.

Politically, the 1st district may be the most competitive congressional district in the country.^{[citation needed]} It has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of EVEN, indicating that it generally votes in line with the country as a whole.^{[citation needed]} Of the nine districts nationwide with a CPVI of EVEN, this is the only district that has ousted three incumbents in the past ten years, and is also the only district of the nine where no candidate has won more than 54% of the vote since 2004.^{[citation needed]}

The district from 2003 to 2013

Cities and towns in the district

The district includes:

• all of Belknap County except the town of Center Harbor
• all of Carroll County
• the town of Campton in Grafton County
• the communities of Bedford, Goffstown, Manchester, and Merrimack in Hillsborough County
• the town of Hooksett in Merrimack County
• all of Rockingham County except the towns of Atkinson, Deerfield, Northwood, Salem, and Windham
• all of Strafford County

List of Representatives

District organized from New Hampshire's At-large congressional district in 1847

Representative	Party	Years	Electoral history
Amos Tuck	Independent	March 4, 1847 – March 4, 1849	Lost re-election
	Free Soil	March 4, 1849 – March 4, 1851
	Whig	March 4, 1851 – March 4, 1853
George W. Kittredge	Democratic	March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1855	Lost re-election
James Pike	American	March 4, 1855 – March 4, 1857	Retired
	Republican	March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1859
Gilman Marston	Republican	March 4, 1859 – March 4, 1863	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Daniel Marcy	Democratic	March 4, 1863 – March 4, 1865	Lost re-election
Gilman Marston	Republican	March 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Jacob Hart Ela	Republican	March 4, 1867 – March 4, 1871	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Ellery Albee Hibbard	Democratic	March 4, 1871 – March 4, 1873	Lost re-election
William B. Small	Republican	March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1875	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Frank Jones	Democratic	March 4, 1875 – March 4, 1879	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Joshua G. Hall	Republican	March 4, 1879 – March 4, 1883	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Martin Alonzo Haynes	Republican	March 4, 1883 – March 4, 1887	Lost re-election
Luther F. McKinney	Democratic	March 4, 1887 – March 4, 1889	Lost re-election
Alonzo Nute	Republican	March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1891	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Luther F. McKinney	Democratic	March 4, 1891 – March 4, 1893	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Henry William Blair	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1895	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Cyrus A. Sulloway	Republican	March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1913	[Data unknown/missing. You can help!]
Eugene Elliott Reed	Democratic	March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1915	Lost re-election
Cyrus A. Sulloway	Republican	March 4, 1915 – March 11, 1917	Died
Vacant		March 11, 1917 – May 29, 1917
Sherman Everett Burroughs	Republican	May 29, 1917 – January 27, 1923	Died
Vacant		January 27, 1923 – March 4, 1923
William Nathaniel Rogers	Democratic	March 4, 1923 – March 4, 1925	Lost re-election
Fletcher Hale	Republican	March 4, 1925 – October 22, 1931	Died
Vacant		October 22, 1931 – January 5, 1932
William Nathaniel Rogers	Democratic	January 5, 1932 – January 3, 1937	Retired to run for U.S. Senate
Arthur B. Jenks	Republican	January 3, 1937 – June 9, 1938	Lost seat due to contested election
Alphonse Roy	Democratic	June 9, 1938 – January 3, 1939	Lost re-election
Arthur B. Jenks	Republican	January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1943	Lost re-election
Chester Earl Merrow	Republican	January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1963	Retired to run for U.S. Senate
Louis C. Wyman	Republican	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965	Lost re-election
Joseph Oliva Huot	Democratic	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967	Lost re-election
Louis C. Wyman	Republican	January 3, 1967 – December 31, 1974	Retired to run for U.S. Senate Resigned early
Vacant		December 31, 1974 – January 3, 1975
Norman D'Amours	Democratic	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1985	Retired to run for U.S. Senate
Robert C. Smith	Republican	January 3, 1985 – December 7, 1990	Resigned on appointment to U.S. Senate
Vacant		December 7, 1990 – January 3, 1991
Bill Zeliff	Republican	January 3, 1991 – January 3, 1997	Retired to run for N.H. Governor
John E. Sununu	Republican	January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003	Retired to run for U.S. Senate
Jeb Bradley	Republican	January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007	Lost re-election
Carol Shea-Porter	Democratic	January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2011	Lost re-election
Frank Guinta	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2013	Lost re-election
Carol Shea-Porter	Democratic	January 3, 2013 – present	Incumbent

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. 
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. 
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present