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Official Election Results for the General Municipal Election held on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.  Report includes ward tallies for citywide candidates and ballots cast (voter turnout).  In this municipal general election, voters cast ballots for the Board of Aldermen, Board of Education, Board of Public Works, Fire Commission, and Ward Election Officials (Moderator, Ward Clerk, and Selectmen). 

Recounts.  City Charter section 26 provides that "Any candidate who is dissatisfied with the return of the vote at any municipal election may have a recount of the vote cast at such election for the office for which he was a candidate...by notifying the city clerk and all candidates for the same office who were returned as having received a larger number of votes than himself that he request such recount or proposes to make such contest by notice in writing left at the office of the city clerk and delivered in hand to or left at the usual place of abode of each of such other candidates at least forty-eight hours before...the meetings of the board of aldermen...at which the returns are to be canvassed.  The...board of aldermen, at said meeting, or at an adjourned meeting or meetings specially held for that purpose within one week thereafter, shall thereupon recount the ballots in the presence of the interested parties, or their representatives..."

Recount of the votes cast at the Municipal Election held on November 3, 2009 in the Ward 5 Aldermanic race.  Recount held November 16, 2009.  [Asterisk (*) denotes winner.]:

Ward 5 Alderman	Returns on Election Night: Nov. 3, 2009	Recount results
Michael J. Tabacsko* 5 Federal Hill Road	424	424
Michael Gallagher 9 Old Coach Road	416	417

2009 Political Calendar and Selected Laws & Ordinances Pertaining to Campaigns 

Sample Ballots for November 3, 2009 Municipal Election
Official ballots are 8 1/2" x 14".

City ordinances require the filing of campaign receipt and expenditure reports twenty (20) days prior to the date of the election and again by December 1st following the election.  Campaign finance reporting forms appear below:

Campaign Receipts: First report, due October 14, 2009  (now due)
Campaign Expenditures: First report, due October 14, 2009 (now due)
Campaign Receipts: Second report, due December 1, 2009
Campaign Expenditures: Second report, due December 1, 2009


Recent Municipal Election Campaign Receipt and Expenditure Reports:

2009 Municipal General Election - first report (October 14, 2009)

2007 Municipal General Election - second report
2007 Municipal General Election - first report
2007 Mayoral Primary Election - second report
2007 Mayoral Primary Election - first report
2005 Municipal General Election - second report
2005 Municipal General Election - first report

Additional Voter and Election Information:

Absentee Ballots

Polling Locations & Wards

2007 and 2008 Election Results 
(For prior year results, please refer to the City Clerk's section within the Municipal Annual Reports)

Learn More About Your Right to Vote!

Nashua Political Sign and Campaign Information

NH Secretary of State's Elections Website