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Leon Rideout

Republican Party

Prior offices:

New Hampshire House of Representatives Coos 7

Years in office: 2012 - 2016

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Marine Corps

Personal

Profession

Small business owner

Leon H. Rideout is a formerRepublican member of theNew Hampshire House of Representatives, representingCoos 7 from 2012 to 2016.

Rideout did not seek re-election to theNew Hampshire House of Representatives in2016. Instead, Rideout was a2016Republican candidate forDistrict 1 of theNew Hampshire State Senate. Rideout was defeated in the primary election held on September 13, 2016.

Rideout served as a member of the New Hampshire Board of Selectmen from 1992 until 1995.

Biography

Rideout's professional experience includes owning and operating a used car sales and repair shop. He served in the United States Marine Corps.^[1]

Committee assignments

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Rideout served on the following committees:

2013-2014

In the 2013-2014 legislative session, Rideout served on the following committees:

Campaign themes

2012

In an electronic communication, Rideout described his political philosophy:^[1]

"Fiscally Conservative Common sense candidate Hoping to Keep State Spending Under control and Prioritized to best meet the need of NH Residents, And to Bring New economic development to COOS County"

Sponsored legislation

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according toBillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.

Elections

2016

See also:New Hampshire State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for theNew Hampshire State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on September 13, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 10, 2016.

IncumbentJeff Woodburn defeatedDolly McPhaul in the New Hampshire State Senate District 1 general election.^[2][3]

New Hampshire State Senate, District 1 General Election, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Jeff WoodburnIncumbent	54.58%	13,926
	Republican	Dolly McPhaul	45.42%	11,590
Total Votes				25,516
Source:New Hampshire Secretary of State

IncumbentJeff Woodburn ran unopposed in the New Hampshire State Senate District 1 Democratic primary.^[4][5]

New Hampshire State Senate, District 1 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party		Candidate
	Democratic	Jeff WoodburnIncumbent (unopposed)
Source: eb

Dolly McPhaul defeatedLeon Rideout in the New Hampshire State Senate District 1 Republican primary.^[4][5]

New Hampshire State Senate, District 1 Republican Primary, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Dolly McPhaul	51.63%	2,274
	Republican	Leon Rideout	48.37%	2,130
Total Votes				4,404

2014

See also:New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for theNew Hampshire House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on September 9, 2014. The general election was held onNovember 4, 2014. Thesignature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 13, 2014. IncumbentLeon Rideout was unopposed in the Republican primary.Mario Audit (I) did not qualify for the general election ballot. Rideout was unchallenged in the general election.^[6]

2012

See also:New Hampshire House of Representatives elections, 2012

Rideout won election in the2012 election forNew Hampshire House of Representatives, Coos 7. Rideout advanced past the September 11 primary and defeated incumbentEvalyn S. Merrick (D) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.^[7][8]

New Hampshire House of Representatives, Coos 7, General Election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Leon Rideout	50.3%	3,274
	Democratic	Evalyn MerrickIncumbent	49.7%	3,240
Total Votes				6,514

New Hampshire House of Representatives, Coos 7 Republican Primary, 2012

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Leon H. Rideout	58.2%	798
William RemickIncumbent	31.9%	437
Jeffery Young	9.9%	136
Total Votes		1,371

Campaign finance summary

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Scorecards

See also:State legislative scorecards andState legislative scorecards in New Hampshire

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2016

In 2016, theNew Hampshire General Court was in session from January 6 through June 1.

• Americans for Prosperity Foundation-New Hampshire- 2016 Legislative Scorecard

Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to economic issues.

• Cornerstone Policy Research: 2015-2016 Legislative Scorecard

Legislators are scored based on 15 roll call votes in the House and seven roll call votes in the Senate during the 2015-2016 session.

• Granite State Taxpayers:Senate andHouse

Legislators are scored on how they voted on tax and fiscal legislation.

• New Hampshire Business and Industry Association: 2016 Legislative Scorecard

Legislators are scored based on their votes on business legislation.

• New Hampshire Liberty Alliance: 2016 Liberty Rating report card

Legislators are scored by the organization "on pro-liberty and anti-liberty roll call votes."

• New Hampshire National Federation of Independent Business: 2016 Voting Record

Legislators are scored on their votes on small business issues.

• NH House Republican Alliance

Legislators are scored based on if they voted with the Republican Party.

• The American Conservative Union

Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.

2015

2014

2013

Recent news

This section links to a Google news search for the term "Leon + Rideout + New + Hampshire + House"

See also

• New Hampshire House of Representatives
• House Committees
• New Hampshire General Court
• New Hampshire state legislative districts
• New Hampshire State Senate
• New Hampshire State Senate District 1
• New Hampshire State Senate elections, 2016

External links

Suggest a link

• Profile from the New Hampshire House of Representatives
• Profile from Open States
• Leon Rideout on Facebook

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