Know who you're voting for.

New Hampshire's governor, running for another term.

Kelly Ayotte is the state's 83rd governor. Her campaign says she previously served as attorney general and as a U.S. senator, and that she lives in Nashua.

• She says her first term sped up housing construction, fully funded child-care scholarships, and produced a balanced budget with no new taxes.
• She says she got cell phones out of classrooms, raised per-student school funding, and put more weight on reading.
• She says she rewrote bail rules, strengthened laws on domestic violence and trafficking, and used her veto on bills she calls hidden sales taxes.

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Democratic candidate for governor and a former executive councilor.

Cinde Warmington is the Democratic nominee for governor. Her campaign says she was the only Democrat on the Executive Council and is running on the cost of living.

• She says she would repeal the private-school voucher program, which she argues drives up property taxes and hurts public schools.
• She says she would push back on higher health-care costs and tariffs, and would reject an immigration detention site in Merrimack.
• She says she would not support a sales or income tax, and that she would work for small businesses.

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Libertarian candidate for governor.

Stephen Villee is the Libertarian nominee. He says he moved to New Hampshire in 2003 as an early Free State Project participant and wants a much smaller state government.

• He says he would push approval voting, so a voter can support more than one candidate, and full legalization of cannabis for adults.
• He says the National Guard should not be activated unless Congress has declared war.
• He says medical psilocybin should be legal for post-traumatic stress, substance use disorder, and depression that has not responded to other care.

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Candidate for U.S. Senate.

John Sununu's campaign says he is a lifelong Granite Stater, trained as an engineer, with private-sector experience and a prior stretch representing New Hampshire in Washington.

• The site says that in Washington he went after government waste, defended privacy, opposed tax increases, and worked on protections for seniors.
• He says he would take a practical approach and put New Hampshire first.

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U.S. representative running for the Senate.

Chris Pappas's campaign says he is in the House and will take on corporate interests, Donald Trump, or his own party when he thinks New Hampshire is better served.

• He says he forced a House vote on banning stock trading by members of Congress, including against his own party's leadership.
• He says he took on drug companies to lower prices and cap insulin at $35.
• He says he is challenging polluters of drinking water and companies he describes as taking advantage of veterans.

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U.S. Senate candidate, Marine, and school board member.

Edmond Laplante's site describes him as a father, grandfather, Marine, and a mechanic for more than 40 years. He says he qualified for the November ballot by petition.

• He says the Constitution is a set of limits on power, not a tool for politicians to redesign society.
• He says a government that stays inside those limits is more trustworthy than one that promises to fix everything.

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Republican candidate for New Hampshire's 1st District.

His campaign says his great-grandparents came through Ellis Island and that he came to the University of New Hampshire in 1983. He says he started a business with a small amount of cash and credit and now oversees more than 20 car dealerships and 11 collision centers employing about a thousand people.

• His plan leads with lower costs, higher wages, and a balanced-budget amendment.
• He says he will protect the 2017 tax cuts and the elimination of taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security, and fully support Social Security and Medicare.
• He calls for securing the southern and northern borders, a common-sense immigration reform, and defense of every law-abiding citizen's right to own a firearm.

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Democratic candidate for New Hampshire's 1st District.

Her campaign says she is the mother of four and that her oldest daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at eight, which led her into 15 years of advocacy for medical research and a company to help people with chronic disease. She says she served on the Manchester City Council and Police Commission.

• She says she supports Medicare for All and a public option, and that insurance companies should not dictate the care people receive.
• She wants to break up health-care monopolies that buy hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies, and to stop drug companies from charging Americans more than people in other countries for the same medicines.
• She says tariffs are hurting small businesses and raising the price of groceries and housing, and that cuts to medical research and Medicaid are funding tax breaks for billionaires and corporations.

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Republican nominee for New Hampshire's 2nd District.

Her campaign says she was born to poor working-class parents in Sichuan and grew up during Mao's Cultural Revolution before coming to the United States. She says she has been married for 34 years, has three adult children, and manages rental properties while speaking about socialism and communism.

• She says she has signed a pledge to cosponsor and vote for a term-limits amendment of three House terms and two Senate terms.
• Her good-government plan calls for single-subject bills, on-time budgets, a ban on stock trading by members and their immediate families, a balanced-budget amendment, and an end to earmarks.
• On prices she says special interests and the federal government should get out of managing the economy, energy should include nuclear, oil, solar, coal, and wind, and spending should come down so the debt can be paid down.

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U.S. representative for New Hampshire's 2nd District

The campaign says Maggie Goodlander grew up in Nashua, served more than a decade in the Navy Reserve, and later worked at the Justice Department and as a White House senior advisor. It says she is now in her first term in Congress.

• Her campaign says her priorities are lowering costs, taking on corruption that raises prices, and keeping promises to Americans.
• The site says that work includes housing bills meant to build more homes and limit corporate purchases of single-family houses, plus protections for Social Security and for veterans and military families.
• She says she has pushed to end emergency tariffs and to wind down U.S. hostilities with Iran.

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