The 2026 race for Governor
Kelly Ayotte
RGovernor of New Hampshire, since 2025
0 of 6 bills on the desk match the DSA position.
Record in office. Scored on bills signed and vetoed, from the official docket.
Few items. This score rests on 6, against 45 roll calls for a sitting legislator. It is a real number and a small one.
Cinde Warmington
DCandidate for Governor · Executive Councilor, District 2 (2021-2024)
13 of 15 published positions match the DSA position.
Published positions. Scored on positions they published. This is what they said, not what they did.
Kelly AyotteRecord in office
7 bills on this scorecard reached her desk, and one of them is not counted: the legislature replaced the text after the vote this site scores, so the act and the vote are about two different subjects. 6 of the 7 count. The alignment is derived from the same field a legislator’s vote is derived from: signing a bill DSA wants counts the same as voting for it, and vetoing one counts the same as voting against. There is no list of “good vetoes” anywhere in this project.
| Date | Bill | Action | DSA wanted | Counts as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-22 | HB 511HB 511 - ban sanctuary policies“Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/22/2025; Chapter 39; eff. 01/01/2026” | Signed | this bill to die | Against DSA |
| 2025-05-22 | SB 62SB 62 - allow police to join federal 287g immigration program“Signed by the Governor on 05/22/2025; Chapter 0039; Effective 01/01/2026” | Signed | this bill to die | Against DSA |
| 2025-06-10 | SB 295SB 295 - education freedom accounts“Signed by the Governor on 06/10/2025; Chapter 0075” | Signed | this bill to die | Against DSA |
| 2025-06-27 | HB 2HB 2 - state budget“Signed by Governor Ayotte 06/27/2025; Chapter 141; 7/01/2025” | Signed | this bill to die | Against DSA |
| 2025-07-15 | HB 115HB 115 - universal eligibility for education freedom accounts“Vetoed by Governor Ayotte 07/15/2025 HJ 19 P. 4”Not the same bill by the time it reached the desk. What was signed or vetoed was making temporary appropriations for the expenses and encumbrances of the state of New Hampshire. The vote this site scores was on the bill above, before the text was replaced, so this act is shown and not counted. | Vetoed | this bill to die | not counted |
| 2026-03-16 | HB 451HB 451 - paint tax“Vetoed by Governor Ayotte 03/16/2026 HJ 10 P. 4” | Vetoed | this bill to pass | Against DSA |
| 2026-07-10 | HB 155HB 155 - cut the business enterprise tax, final adoption“Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/10/2026; Chapter 280; eff. I. Sec 2 eff 6/30/2026 II. Rem eff 1/1/2027” | Signed | this bill to die | Against DSA |
By issue area
| Issue area | DSA plank | Aligned | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raise Taxes to Expand Government | Economic Democracy | 0/1 | 0% |
| Abolish ICE and Shield Illegal Immigration | Abolish ICE | 0/2 | 0% |
| Grow the State Budget | Economic Democracy | 0/1 | 0% |
| A New Tax on Paint | Green New Deal | 0/1 | 0% |
| Defend the Public School Monopoly | Freedom To Flourish | 0/1 | 0% |
Raise Taxes to Expand Government
Abolish ICE and Shield Illegal Immigration
Grow the State Budget
A New Tax on Paint
Defend the Public School MonopolyThe other ballot, as a check
Scored the other way, on published positions, she comes out at 12.5% (1 of 8). The two ballots disagree, and the published one is the stronger evidence.
Sensitivity check
The items are not spread evenly across the issue areas, so one subject can carry more of the score than the rest. Averaging the areas instead of the items gives 0%. That lands on the same side of the 80% line as the published score.
Cinde WarmingtonPublished positions
She has never held an office that votes on these bills, so there is no record to score. What Citizens Count publishes instead is 15 positions from 2020 to 2024 that map to a DSA plank this site already scores: 11 answered on a survey form, 4 read off her campaign material.
Her own campaign website
4 things she wrote down herself.
- Against"Education Freedom Account" program
- ForClimate change action
- ForExpand net metering opportunities
- ForMinimum wage increase
Every one of them is the position the Democratic Socialists of America published. No survey form. No questionnaire. Her own campaign site, 2024.
4 for 4 with the DSA program. She wrote it down.
| Issue | She said | DSA position | Source | Counts as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Education Freedom Account" program | Against | Against | Candidate's Website, 2024not a survey answer | DSA aligned |
| Climate change action | For | For | Candidate's Website, 2024not a survey answer | DSA aligned |
| Expand net metering opportunities | For | For | Candidate's Website, 2024not a survey answer | DSA aligned |
| Minimum wage increase | For | For | Candidate's Website, 2024not a survey answer | DSA aligned |
| Broad-based income tax"This is not a matter that comes before the Executive Council." | Against | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022 | Against DSA |
| Business tax decrease"This is not a matter that comes before the Executive Council." | Against | Against | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022 | DSA aligned |
| Conditional, affidavit ballots for new voters"This is not a matter that comes before the Executive Council. However, in considering judicial nominees, I would only support those who are committed to upholding the constitutional right to vote." | Against | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022 | Against DSA |
| Extending renewable energy portfolio standard"This is not a matter that comes before the Executive Council. However, in considering nominees for relevant positions such as appointments to the Department of Energy and Public Utilities Commission, I would make inquiry regarding the nominee's commitment to renewable energy." | For | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022 | DSA aligned |
| Mail-in voting"This is not a matter that comes before the Executive Council. However, in considering judicial nominees, I would only support those who are committed to upholding the constitutional right to vote." | For | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022 | DSA aligned |
| Permanent increase to local revenue sharing"This is not a matter that comes before the Executive Council." | For | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022 | DSA aligned |
| Phasing out Interest and Dividends tax"This is not a matter that comes before the Executive Council." | Against | Against | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022 | DSA aligned |
| Per-pupil school funding increase"This not a matter that comes before the Executive Council. However, I would seek to confirm a Commissioner of Education and Board of Education members who support public education and who would advocate for increased per-pupil funding." | For | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020 | DSA aligned |
| Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative"This is not a matter that comes directly before the Executive Council however, I would make inquiry of nominees to relevant positions about their commitment to expanding use of renewable energy sources." | For | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020 | DSA aligned |
| Statewide, mandatory family and medical leave"This is not a matter that comes before the Council directly, however I will make inquiry as to whether state contractors provide fair wages and benefits including family and medical leave." | For | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020 | DSA aligned |
| Tax incentives for affordable housing"Tax policy is not a matter before the Executive Council. However, in considering nominees for relevant positions such as appointments to the NH Housing Finance Authority, I would make inquiry regarding the nominees commitment to affordable housing. " | For | For | Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020 | DSA aligned |
Said before, and not counted twice
Citizens Count asks the same thing in different words across cycles. Where a topic appears more than once, only the most recent statement counts. These older ones are listed rather than deleted so you can see nothing was double-counted.
- Net metering expansion: For (Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020)
- Tax revenue for private and home schooling: Against (Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020)
Nothing published on these
10 of the 24 scored topics. A blank is excluded from the score exactly as an absence is on a roll call, and is never read as opposition.
- Allow segregation based on biological sex
- Fund the Office of the Child Advocate
- Interest and Dividends tax
- Proof of citizenship for newly registered voters
- Public school open enrollment with limits
- School district tax cap mandate
- Increase funding for child care providers
- Majority of public school funding through local property taxes
- Require local immigration enforcement
- Capital gains tax
By issue area
| Issue area | DSA plank | Aligned | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raise Taxes to Expand Government | Economic Democracy | 2/3 | 66.7% |
| Grow the State Budget | Economic Democracy | 1/1 | 100% |
| Green New Deal Energy Mandates | Green New Deal | 4/4 | 100% |
| Defend the Public School Monopoly | Freedom To Flourish | 2/2 | 100% |
| Government Control of Rental Property | Housing For All | 1/1 | 100% |
| Government-Mandated Wages | Freedom To Flourish | 2/2 | 100% |
| Loosen Voter Eligibility Rules | Democracy For All | 1/2 | 50% |
The other ballot, as a check
Cinde Warmington has never signed or vetoed a bill on this scorecard, so there is no record ballot to compare against.
Sensitivity check
The items are not spread evenly across the issue areas, so one subject can carry more of the score than the rest. Averaging the areas instead of the items gives 88.1%. That lands on the same side of the 80% line as the published score.
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What this ballot does not score
Both candidates have taken positions on far more than the 24 topics above. An issue is left out when the DSA political program takes no position on it, when the two sides of the plank point opposite ways, or when this site already removed the question from another ballot. Every exclusion is listed below with its reason.
- Broad-based sales tax
- Both candidates oppose it and the plank points both ways. A sales tax is new state revenue, which Economic Democracy wants, and it is regressive, which the same plank objects to. We do not guess a direction.
- Electric vehicle fees
- A fee on electric vehicles raises state revenue and discourages the vehicles the Green New Deal plank wants. The two halves cancel and there is no honest direction to score.
- Encourage local zoning changes for housing development
- Removed from the candidate survey ballot in v3 and excluded here for the same reason: a market liberal who wants to abolish zoning answers this the same way a socialist who wants public housing does, so the answer separates nobody.
- Abortion questions (all)
- Removed from the candidate survey ballot in v2 because four of sixteen questions on one subject decided more scores than any other. The governor ballot inherits that rule rather than reopening it.
- Marijuana legalization (all forms)
- The DSA program has no drug-policy plank.
- Stricter gun laws
- The DSA program has no firearms plank. Every gun bill is excluded from the roll-call scorecard for the same reason.
- Encourage nuclear development
- The Green New Deal plank names a fossil-fuel phase-out and publicly owned sustainable energy. It takes no position on nuclear power either way.
- Executive Council process questions
- No-bid contracts, the dollar threshold for Council review, and how much a nominee's politics should weigh are questions about how the Executive Council runs itself. They map to no plank, and only one of the two candidates ever sat on the Council.
- Federal positions from 2009 to 2016
- Kelly Ayotte's profile carries US Senate campaign positions going back to 2009 - Dodd-Frank, the Iran deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership. They are about another office in another decade. The 2020 cut-off removes all of them.
Granite Solutions rating, from the official bill docket and published candidate positions. Not a DSA endorsement. Methodology