# David Love

David Love is a Republican member of the New Hampshire House for district Rockingham 13.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: New Hampshire House, district Rockingham 13
- Serving since: 2022-12-07
- Current term: NH 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/1c956ef6-b705-4e9d-af0c-f66d6f44591e

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1c956ef6-b705-4e9d-af0c-f66d6f44591e (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Love sits at +0.17 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 79% of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.17 (standard error 0.01), from 0 donors and 1,171 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 21% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (NH 2025–26 session)

557 roll calls. Attendance 92.2% (New Hampshire House 89%). Party unity 97.6% (95.3%). 17 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · Veto Override · HB 2026 relative to the state 10-year transportation improvement plan; relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic toll reviews for the New Hampshire… · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB2026/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · Veto Override · HB 1358 establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools. · fail · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1358/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · Veto Override · HB 1610 allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1610/
- 2026-08-19 · voted nay · Veto Override · HB 1336 relative to regulated conditional deposits. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1336/
- 2026-08-19 · voted nay · Veto Override · HB 1726 relative to the sale of surplus state-owned land and establishing a commission to study the sale of state-owned property. · fail · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1726/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · Veto Override · HB 1766 relative to cruelty to livestock. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1766/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · Veto Override · HB 1102 increasing the research and development tax credit cap and relative to state park fees for state residents. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1102/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · Veto Override · SB 468 relative to enabling alternative treatment centers to operate a greenhouse cultivation location. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/SB468/
- 2026-08-19 · voted not voting · Veto Override · HB 1097 requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1097/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · Veto Override · HB 232 relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB232/

## Legislation (NH 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 8 bills: 8 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 18. 25.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House 47.9%; rank 101 of 128).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1687: removing the power of courts within the judicial branch family division to issue criminal determinations, judgments, and penalties. (in committee, 2026-03-11) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1687/
- HB 1550: requiring marital masters, arbitrators, mediators, and judicial referees to be commissioned as a justice of peace as a qualification for such positions. (in committee, 2026-03-11) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1550/
- HB 1552: relative to orders of protection. (in committee, 2026-03-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1552/
- HB 1206: clarifying the equity jurisdiction of the judicial branch family division. (passed one chamber, 2026-05-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1206/
- HB 746: relative to an award of attorney's fees upon a successful appeal of a local property tax assessment. (in committee, 2025-03-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB746/
- HB 767: expanding requirements for reports to law enforcement by the department of health and human services. (passed one chamber, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB767/
- HB 767: expanding requirements for reports to law enforcement by the department of health and human services. (in committee, 2025-11-13) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB767/
- HB 573: relative to the funding for search and rescue operations of the fish and game department and making an appropriation therefor. (in committee, 2025-03-13) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB573/
- HB 87: prohibiting the posting of land not owned by the poster. (became law, 2025-06-27) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2025/HB87/
- HB 1441: relative to prohibiting the mutilation or alteration of the sexual or reproductive system of a minor. (in committee, 2023-12-06) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1441/

## Links

- Official site: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=408905
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.love.90226/
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/people/David-Love-for-State-RepDerry-Rockingham-13/100064029067814/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/1c956ef6-b705-4e9d-af0c-f66d6f44591e
