- Lead
- 858
- Total
- 2,548
- vs nation
- D+35.1
New Hampshire State House District Cheshire 2
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 862
- Total
- 2,442
- vs nation
- D+30.8
- Lead
- 666
- Total
- 2,221
- vs nation
- D+27.9
- Lead
- 924
- Total
- 2,386
- vs nation
- D+34.9
- Lead
- 1,026
- Total
- 2,467
- vs nation
- D+34.3
- Lead
- 782
- Total
- 2,481
- vs nation
- D+34.0
- Lead
- 452
- Total
- 1,957
- vs nation
- D+22.6
- Lead
- 547
- Total
- 1,738
- vs nation
- D+23.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+33.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 4,5502024 5-year
- Population density
- 734 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 6.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,8272024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 89.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+49.3 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.2 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District Cheshire 04, NH · twin score 98.5
presidential history
Party record book
New Hampshire State House District Cheshire 2 · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
74.7%
905 votes · D+49.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 70.3%
Republican
William McKinley1896
70.3%
242 votes · R+44.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 63.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
1,735votes
70.3% of the vote · D+41.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 1,683 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
839votes
33.8% of the vote · D+31.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 825 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
+35.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+33.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +34.9 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+38.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +22.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Cheshire 02 delivered a 33.8-point Democratic margin in 2024, making it an outlier in a state defined by competitive statewide races. The district's small population of roughly 4,500 points to a compact, urban-leaning core within Cheshire County.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 49.3 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 44.2 points in 1896. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.7 points.
A population of 4,550, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,827 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District Cheshire 04 and State House District 129.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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New Hampshire State House District Cheshire 2. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/33202/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.