# Eric Gallager

Eric Gallager is a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House for district Merrimack 20.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: New Hampshire House, district Merrimack 20
- Serving since: 2022-12-07
- Current term: NH 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a8e2dc1d-b828-475a-92d4-373129360dcb

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a8e2dc1d-b828-475a-92d4-373129360dcb (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

Gallager has served since 2022.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.48 (standard error 0.04), from 6 donors and 892 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 70% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (NH 2025–26 session)

557 roll calls. Attendance 98.5% (New Hampshire House 89%). Party unity 98.6% (95.3%). 19 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 nay · 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 nay · 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 nay · 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 nay · 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 0 bills: 0 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 1.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 1615: relative to the autism registry. (became law, 2024-06-20) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1615/
- HB 1375: relative to severance agreements requiring employees to broadly waive labor law rights. (in committee, 2024-03-07) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1375/
- HB 1367: relative to establishing immunity for certain testimony in public legislative hearings. (in committee, 2024-02-08) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1367/
- HB 1368: prohibiting termination of a tenancy based on a tenant's failure to pay rent that was increased by certain price fixing programs. (in committee, 2024-03-21) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1368/
- HB 1440: relative to establishing a life jacket loaner station program along the Merrimack river. (in committee, 2024-03-14) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1440/
- HR 24: reaffirming support for the child labor amendment to the United States Constitution. (passed one chamber, 2024-02-15) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HR24/
- HB 1196: relative to requests for easements for the purpose of laying sidewalk along class I-IV highways. (in committee, 2024-03-07) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1196/
- HB 1096: enabling the state house visitors center to sell state symbols that may have intellectual property right holders. (in committee, 2024-02-08) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1096/
- HB 1095: relative to the administration of occupational boards by the office of professional licensure and certification. (became law, 2024-08-07) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1095/
- HB 1072: relative to prohibiting employers from using polygraph testing. (in committee, 2024-02-22) https://openstates.org/nh/bills/2024/HB1072/

## Campaign money (2020 cycle)

Itemized receipts $552 (State House Democrats median $776). 82% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=409026
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eric.gallager/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtE_V52yy8_4j5ld_0UHHdw
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-gallager-44118a34

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a8e2dc1d-b828-475a-92d4-373129360dcb