- Lead
- 157
- Total
- 4,047
- vs nation
- R+2.4
New Hampshire State House District Coos 5
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 295
- Total
- 4,070
- vs nation
- D+2.8
- Lead
- 188
- Total
- 3,974
- vs nation
- D+2.6
- Lead
- 1,680
- Total
- 4,462
- vs nation
- D+33.8
- Lead
- 1,754
- Total
- 4,638
- vs nation
- D+30.5
- Lead
- 1,348
- Total
- 4,846
- vs nation
- D+30.3
- Lead
- 786
- Total
- 3,938
- vs nation
- D+19.4
- Lead
- 1,585
- Total
- 3,587
- vs nation
- D+35.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+3.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 9,4252024 5-year
- Population density
- 154 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 61.3 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $45,1802024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 86.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.0 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+19.7 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District Coos 01, NH · twin score 93.4
presidential history
Party record book
New Hampshire State House District Coos 5 · 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
80.5%
4,324 votes · D+61.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 72.2%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
59.9%
2,132 votes · R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William McKinley, 1896 · 56.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
4,324votes
80.5% of the vote · D+61.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 3,787 votes
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
2,460votes
53.8% of the vote · R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 2,132 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
James M. Cox1920
+41.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.8 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · +38.6 pts
Republican
William McKinley1896
+5.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+12.0 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +2.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Coos 05 covers a sparsely populated stretch of New Hampshire's northernmost county, where a 3.9-point Republican presidential margin reflects the broader rural shift that has reshaped the North Country over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.0 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 19.7 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 11.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.9 points.
A population of 9,425, a 87% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $45,180 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District Coos 01 and State House District Cheshire 11.
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 Coos 5. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/33305/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.