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Republican · New Hampshire House, district Strafford 3

Serving since Dec 4, 2024NH 2025–26 session

Portrait of Susan DeRoy, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$1,000
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom 5% of State House Republicans

The median for State House Republicans is $33.7K. Ranks 2422nd of 2,521, where 1st raised the most. 2 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2026 cycle, ranked among State House Republicans. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

5 measures against State House Republicans. 50% of DeRoy’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from New Hampshire, in the bottom tenth of State House Republicans. DeRoy sits at +0.16 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 79% of State House Republicans.

The measures on which DeRoy sits furthest from the middle of State House Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Itemized, 2026

$1,000

State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 2422nd of 2,521

From New Hampshire, 2026

50%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 2162nd of 2,335 State House Republicans

Attendance

99.4%

New Hampshire House average 89% · ranks 67th of 382 · 557 roll calls

CSIP ideology

+0.16

More liberal than 79% of State House Republicans · ± 0.06

Party unity

97.2%

New Hampshire House average 95.3% · ranks 184th of 381 · 26 votes against the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans

Statements

No statements in this window

Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is DeRoy, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which DeRoy is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

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What DeRoy says

No statements for the NH 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Policy

No policy statements for the NH 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

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Ideology

DeRoy sits at +0.16 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 79% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.11 to +0.22, which understates the uncertainty; from 7 donors and 298 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

+0.16

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range +0.11 to +0.22. From 7 donors and 298 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0DeRoy +0.2State House Republicans +0.4New Hampshire House 0.0All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is DeRoy, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of DeRoy’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where DeRoy sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Republicansmedian +0.4DeRoy +0.2New Hampshire Housemedian 0.0All State Housemedian +0.1
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DeRoy's CSIP score of +0.16 placed against State House Republicans, New Hampshire House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of DeRoy
State House Republicans2917+0.420%
New Hampshire House3820.084%
All State House5324+0.156%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is DeRoy in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of DeRoy.

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Money

DeRoy reported $1,000 in the 2026 cycle, 3.0% of the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 50% of itemized individual money came from New Hampshire.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$1,000

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 2 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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  • Individuals (itemized)50 squares$500
  • PACs and other committees5 squares$50
  • Party committees45 squares$450
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Sources of DeRoy's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$50050.0%
PACs and other committees$505.0%
Party committees$45045.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $1,814$1,81420242026 cycle: $1,000$1,0002026State House Republicans median $33.7K
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DeRoy's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Republicans median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$1,814
2026 cycle$1,000

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 50% came from New Hampshire.

  1. New Hampshire$250
  2. Pennsylvania$250

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: no dataMEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: $250NHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: no dataILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: no dataNYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: $250PANew Jersey: no dataNJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: no dataMDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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DeRoy's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
New Hampshire$250
Pennsylvania$250
AlaskaNo data
MaineNo data
VermontNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
IllinoisNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
New YorkNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
New JerseyNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
MarylandNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
2

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

50%

from New Hampshire

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is New Hampshire. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No occupations reported.

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

  1. ROCHESTER REGIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE$450
  2. COMMITTEE TO ELECT HOUSE REPBULICANS$50

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

DeRoy voted with the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans on 97.2% of party-line votes and missed 0.5% of 557 roll calls. New Hampshire House on average: 95.3% party unity, 89% attendance. Across all roll calls, DeRoy voted against the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans 26 times.

557 roll calls DeRoy could vote on in the NH 2025–26 session, compared with New Hampshire House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where DeRoy voted with the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

26

votes against the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans

Party unity 97.2%, New Hampshire House average 95.3%, ranks 184th of 381. 557 roll calls in the NH 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is DeRoy, the thin grey bar the New Hampshire House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
DeRoy
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.4%
89%
67th of 382
Party unity
97.2%
95.3%
184th of 381
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DeRoy's attendance and party unity against New Hampshire House.
RowDeRoyPeers
Attendance99.4%89%
Party unity97.2%95.3%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the NH 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Aug 19, 2026
HB 2026
relative to the state 10-year transportation improvement plan; relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic toll reviews for the New Hampshire turnpike system to support the 2027-2036 ten-year transportation plan; and relative to reconstruction of the Gregg Mill Road Bridge in the town of New Bost
Veto Override
YeaWith majoritypassD 143–0 · R 148–25 · I 1–0Democrats 143 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 148 yea, 25 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1358
establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools.
Veto Override
YeaWith majorityfailD 0–143 · R 149–23 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 143 nay; Republicans 149 yea, 23 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote · party crossover
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1610
allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds.
Veto Override
YeaWith majoritypassD 0–139 · R 161–9 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 139 nay; Republicans 161 yea, 9 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1336
relative to regulated conditional deposits.
Veto Override
YeaWith majoritypassD 0–142 · R 158–13 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 142 nay; Republicans 158 yea, 13 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote
Aug 19, 2026
HB 1726
relative to the sale of surplus state-owned land and establishing a commission to study the sale of state-owned property.
Veto Override
YeaWith majorityfailD 2–135 · R 98–71 · I 1–0Democrats 2 yea, 135 nay; Republicans 98 yea, 71 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as DeRoy most often

  1. Shane SiroisR514 shared votes97%
  2. Kevin VervilleR351 shared votes96%
  3. Sue DeLemusR551 shared votes96%
  4. Donald SelbyR410 shared votes96%
  5. Riché ColcombeR517 shared votes96%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as DeRoy least often

  1. Amy MaloneD239 shared votes5.4%
  2. Samantha JacobsD443 shared votes7.0%
  3. Suraj BudathokiD485 shared votes7.2%
  4. Karen HegnerD397 shared votes7.3%
  5. Matt WilhelmD531 shared votes7.3%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

NH 2025–26 session, loads in batches

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Legislation

DeRoy sponsored 4 bills in the NH 2025–26 session; none became law. Cosponsored 60 others.

The bills DeRoy sponsored and cosponsored in the NH 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the NH 2025–26 session

Sponsored4 billsSponsored, Introduced: 44Sponsored, In committee: 44Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 11Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 00Sponsored, Became law: 00Cosponsored60 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 6060Cosponsored, In committee: 6060Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 2525Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 1010Cosponsored, Became law: 11IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills DeRoy sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored44100
Cosponsored606025101
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills DeRoy sponsored, ochre blocks bills DeRoy cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

No effectiveness score.Too few sponsored bills to score (at least 5 are needed).

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with DeRoy, by number of shared bills in the NH 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Kelley Potenza23
  2. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière21
  3. Kristine Perez19
  4. Diane Kelley16
  5. J.D. Bernardy16
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of DeRoy’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
HB 1825relative to the regulation of the practice of law, establishing an independent legal licensing board, and making an appropriation therefor.CosponsorDec 18, 2025In committeeLaw(model)Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 27 Feb 19, 2026
HB 1740relative to the protection of persons from domestic violence.CosponsorDec 17, 2025In committeeFamilies(model)Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 11 Feb 19, 2026
HB 1762relative to the calculation of child support.CosponsorDec 17, 2025In committeeFamilies(model)Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/12/2026 HJ 4 P. 2 Feb 12, 2026
HB 1788holding state contracts with DEI provisions to be void as a matter of law and establishing a right of action for citizens where public entities or state agencies engage with contracts with DEI provisions.CosponsorDec 17, 2025Passed one chamberCivil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model)Refer to Interim Study, MA, VV; 04/16/2026; SJ 9 Apr 10, 2026
HB 1756allowing organizations to file for property tax exemptions once and receive those exemptions unless and until a town assessor finds the organization ineligible for an exemption.CosponsorDec 17, 2025Passed both chambersTaxation(model)Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/02/2026; Chapter 240; eff. 8/31/2026 Jul 10, 2026

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Online

A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. DeRoy’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.

The lab crawls DeRoy’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images DeRoy posts with a vision model.

Websites

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images DeRoy posted

No images from DeRoy’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which DeRoy is most unusual among State House Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
09972c73-4e4f-471a-9888-558053aace85
Open States
ocd-person/09972c73-4e4f-471a-9888-558053aace85

Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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