The 2014 United States Senate election in New Hampshire was held on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of New Hampshire, concurrently with the election of the governor of New Hampshire, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Incumbent Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen ran for re-election to a second term in office. Primary elections were held on September 9, 2014. Shaheen was unopposed for the Democratic nomination and the Republicans nominated former U.S. Senator Scott Brown, who represented Massachusetts from 2010 to 2013.
Brown sought to become only the third person in history and the first in 135 years to represent more than one state in the United States Senate. Waitman T. Willey represented Virginia from 1861 to 1863 and West Virginia from 1863 to 1871 and James Shields represented Illinois from 1849 to 1855, Minnesota from 1858 to 1859 and Missouri in 1879.
Shaheen defeated Brown by 51.5% to 48.2%, making him the first man to lose two Senate races to women, as he had lost his 2012 reelection bid in Massachusetts to Elizabeth Warren. Shaheen became the second Democrat from New Hampshire to be reelected to the Senate and the first since Thomas J. McIntyre in 1972.
Democratic primary
Shaheen was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.
Candidates
Declared
- Jeanne Shaheen, incumbent U.S. Senator
Endorsements
Results
Republican primary
The Republican primary for this election was much more highly contested than the respective Democratic one, with Scott Brown beating out Jim Rubens and Bob Smith for the Republican nomination.
Candidates
Declared
- Gerard Beloin, candidate for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in 2012 and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010
- Scott Brown, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
- Robert D'Arcy
- Miroslaw "Miro" Dziedzic, candidate for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district in 2012
- Mark W. Farnham, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1992
- Bob Heghmann
- Walter W. Kelly
- Andy Martin, perennial candidate
- Jim Rubens, Chairman of the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling, former state senator and candidate for Governor in 1998
- Bob Smith, former U.S. Senator, and candidate for President in 2000
Withdrew
- Karen Testerman, conservative activist and candidate for Governor in 2010 (endorsed Smith)
Declined
- Richard Ashooh, candidate for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in 2010
- Al Baldasaro, state representative
- Charles Bass, former U.S. Representative
- Bill Binnie, industrialist, investment banker and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010
- Jeb Bradley, Majority Leader of the New Hampshire Senate and former U.S. Representative
- David M. Cote, chairman and CEO of Honeywell
- Judd Gregg, former U.S. Senator and former governor of New Hampshire
- Frank Guinta, former U.S. Representative (ran for NH-01)
- Daniel Innis, Dean of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire (ran for NH-01)
- Ovide Lamontagne, businessman, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010 and nominee for Governor in 1996 and 2012
- Andy Sanborn, state senator
- Mark Steyn, conservative author and political commentator
- Chris Sununu, executive councillor, son of former governor John H. Sununu and brother of former U.S. Senator John E. Sununu (ran for re-election)
- John E. Sununu, former U.S. Senator
- Fred Tausch, businessman
- Fran Wendelboe, former state representative and candidate for New Hampshire's 1st congressional district in 2002
Endorsements
Polling
Results
General election
Debates
- Complete video of debate, October 21, 2014
- Complete video of debate, October 23, 2014
Fundraising
Independent expenditures
Predictions
Polling
Results
The race was close throughout the night. However, with 57% of the vote in MSNBC was comfortable enough with Shaheen's lead to declare her the victor. Brown called Shaheen to concede at 11:32 P.M. EST. Shaheen won with a 3.3% margin of victory over Brown, securing a majority of the votes cast by over 1%.
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
- Carroll (largest municipality: Conway)
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
- Hillsborough (largest municipality: Manchester)
By congressional district
Shaheen won 1 of 2 congressional districts.
See also
- 2014 United States Senate elections
- 2014 United States elections
- 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire
- 2014 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
References
External links
- U.S. Senate elections in New Hampshire, 2014 at Ballotpedia
- Scott Brown vs Jeanne Shaheen Archived July 14, 2014, at the Wayback Machine graph of multiple polls from HuffPost Pollster
- Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets
