New Hampshire Classic Liberal Party Chair Launches State House Campaign

Daryl D’Angelo, chair of the New Hampshire Classic Liberal Party, announced this week that she is running for the state House in Hillsborough District 37. The seat is a floterial district covering Amherst and Milford.

In an emailed statement to Independent Political Report, D’Angelo said she is running as an independent candidate using the Classic Liberal designation. Under New Hampshire election law, a state representative candidate seeking ballot access outside the major parties must file a declaration of intent, pay the required fee, and submit nomination papers with 150 valid signatures.

D’Angelo said she has lived in Amherst since 2010 and has been active in local conservation, including starting the town’s Trail Stewards program and chairing the Amherst Conservation Commission. She added that her husband, John D’Angelo, also serves on the Amherst Board of Selectmen.

“Both parties have had a hand in breaking our property taxes, our school funding, and our housing. We need straight talk and pragmatic solutions — not finger-pointing,” D’Angelo wrote. “Put government back in its box, and people front and center.”

The campaign appears to be the first legislative bid by a New Hampshire Classic Liberal Party member that IPR has identified, let alone use a ballot designation in any way reflective of the organization. The party is the recognized New Hampshire affiliate of the Liberal Party USA, having formally affiliated with the national party during its inaugural convention in Houston in December 2024.

In her announcement, D’Angelo notes that Hillsborough District 37 is a floterial seat, referring to a special type of legislative district currently used only in New Hampshire House elections. Such districts are overlay districts that include communities or smaller districts that are already represented separately, giving voters the ability to elect an additional representative from the combined area.

New Hampshire has 400 state representatives, giving it the largest lower legislative chamber in the United States and one of the lowest population-to-representative ratios in the country. One way the state has achieved that unusually large structure is through floterial districts.