page_title: 2016 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
section_title: Results
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 New Hampshire gubernatorial election / General election / Results
context_page_description: The 2016 New Hampshire gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2016, to elect the Governor of New Hampshire, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
  The primaries were held on September 13.
  Incumbent Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan was eligible to run for re-election to a third term in office, but she instead successfully ran for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Kelly Ayotte. In the general election, Republican nominee Chris Sununu defeated Democrat Colin Van Ostern and Libertarian state representative Max Abramson to become the first Republican governor of New Hampshire elected since 2002.
caption: Results by county:  Sununu      40–50%       50–60%     Van Ostern      50–60%