# Deborah Aylward

Deborah Aylward is a Republican member of the New Hampshire House for district Merrimack 5.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: New Hampshire House, district Merrimack 5
- Serving since: 2022-12-07
- Current term: NH 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/8015d8e4-78cd-41a5-93f9-f6a704910c2f

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/8015d8e4-78cd-41a5-93f9-f6a704910c2f (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

Aylward sits at +0.12 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 85% of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.12 (standard error 0.02), from 0 donors and 544 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 15% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (NH 2025–26 session)

557 roll calls. Attendance 82% (New Hampshire House 89%). Party unity 98.0% (95.3%). 14 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 yea · Veto Override · HB 1336 relative to regulated conditional deposits. · pass · https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1336/
- 2026-08-19 · voted yea · 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 yea · 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 5 bills: 5 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 15. 20.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House 47.9%; rank 108 of 128).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1802: relative to training, testing, and certification of local land use board members and making an appropriations therefor. (in committee, 2026-02-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1802/
- HB 1497: relative to replacing members of local land use boards for certain conduct. (in committee, 2026-02-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1497/
- HB 1135: prohibiting the acquisition of prescriptive rights in private roads through adverse use. (passed one chamber, 2026-04-03) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1135/
- HB 1139: relative to criminal trespass on secured premises. (in committee, 2026-02-12) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1139/
- HB 1057: relative to the maintenance of private roads held in common ownership. (in committee, 2026-02-05) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2026/HB1057/
- HB 1685: redefining "homestead foods" as "artisan foods," creating an artisan food operations exemption, establishing artisan food products sales venues, and allowing… (in committee, 2024-10-31) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1685/
- HB 1327: relative to the definition of farmers' market. (in committee, 2024-02-22) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1327/
- HB 1090: repealing the requirement to register "farmers' market" as a trade name. (in committee, 2024-03-28) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1090/

## Links

- Official site: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=409062

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/8015d8e4-78cd-41a5-93f9-f6a704910c2f