Libertarian Party of New Hampshire

Libertarian Party of New Hampshire
Abbreviation	LPNH
Chairperson	Joshua Holmes[1]
Founded	August 4, 1974
Ideology	Libertarianism
Political position	Far-right[2]
Senate	0 / 24
House of Representatives	0 / 400
U.S. Senate	0 / 2
U.S. House of Representatives	0 / 2
Other elected officials	0 (June 2024)[update][3]
Website
lpnh.org
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The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire (LPNH) is the New Hampshire affiliate of the national Libertarian Party (LP). Active since its foundation in 1972, it is the third-largest political party in the state having had multiple members elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives as well as being ballot-qualified multiple times.

The party became ballot-qualified after receiving over three percent of the popular vote in the 1990 gubernatorial election and maintained that status in the 1992 and 1994 elections. The party elected multiple members to the state house with the use of electoral fusion with the two major parties. The party's caucus in the state house was officially recognized from 1992 to 1995, and Representative Don Gorman served as the party's first state house leader. The party lost its ballot status after the 1996 gubernatorial election.

The party regained its ballot-qualified status after Max Abramson received enough support in the 2016 gubernatorial election. The party caucus in the state house was re-recognized in 2017, after Caleb Q. Dyer, Joseph Stallcop, and Brandon Phinney changed their political affiliations to Libertarian. However, the party lost its ballot-qualified status after the 2018 gubernatorial election and all of its members in the state house lost reelection in the 2018 state house elections.

Jiletta Jarvis, a former gubernatorial candidate, attempted to form a new affiliate in 2021, and claimed to have support from Joe Bishop-Henchman, the chair of the national Libertarian Party, but Bishop-Henchman denied supporting her. Bishop-Henchman resigned after an unsuccessful vote to disaffiliate the existing New Hampshire Libertarian Party and Jarvis handed control of party materials back to the existing affiliate.

Since 2020, the party has received coverage in the press for controversial, far-right, and antisemitic statements made by its Twitter account. These actions have been criticized by Libertarian presidential nominees Gary Johnson and Chase Oliver.