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TOP RACE

Rep. Chris Pappas (NH-1)

Democrat - New Hampshire

Running for Senate

Top Race Candidate: 
This close election will help determine control of the House & Senate. 

Rep. Pappas was named the most bipartisan House Democrat and the third most bipartisan member of Congress overall. An outspoken champion of women’s reproductive healthcare, Pappas fought to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act to codify Roe v. Wade.

PARTY: Democrat

ELECTED: 2019

EDUCATION: Harvard University (BA)

OCCUPATION PRIOR TO CONGRESSIONAL SERVICE: Co-owner of family restaurant, The Puritan Backroom in Manchester, New Hampshire

BORN: June 4, 1980

First-time candidates do not yet have a voting record.

“I’ll continue fighting to pass legislation that will restore access to reproductive care and the right to privacy, and I will not give up until we safeguard the personal freedoms of all Americans.” - Rep. Chris Pappas

POLITICAL CAREER

  • U.S. House of Representatives, New Hampshire 1 (Present)

  • New Hampshire Executive Council, 4th District (2013-2019)

  • New Hampshire House of Representatives (2002-2010)


COMMITTEES SERVED ON

  • Committee on Small Business

  • Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

  • Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure


INTERESTING FACTS

  • Pappas’ family restaurant first opened in 1917

69d 22h 18m 20s until Election Day '26

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