Sheriff Election — Strafford County, New Hampshire
Strafford Sheriff · the arena · three cities hire this desk · 2026 is the regular two-year
This is Side Two
This page is the arena for this office, this cycle. Unique teaching for the job lives on the office twin. The county as a place is taught at Strafford County.
It is not a campaign. Names belong on the official sample ballot. No crown.
Two years on the Cocheco
RSA 653:1: two years. Strafford is on the default. SOS table: 2022, 2024, 2026, 2028, 2030. Tuesday, 3 November 2026. Primary Tuesday, 8 September 2026. Takes office RSA 653:10. Rockingham next south is four-year and also 2026. Coös is four-year and not 2026. Do not mix the three tables. The presidential primary is a different year. The Governor is 2026 — a different oval.
Sample ballot wins
Do not take names from a campus thread.
- Official candidate list / sample ballot — Secretary of State
- City and town clerks — Dover, Rochester, Somersworth, Durham, Farmington, and the rest
- Current Sheriff of record — official Strafford County Sheriff listing / SOS county roster
If a site and the official sample ballot disagree, the sample ballot wins.
What you are hiring
One two-year Sheriff for this county: civil process, court security and transport, warrants, mutual aid. Not the jail superintendent. Not Dover Police. Not UNH Police. Not Maine. Read the office page before you read a mailer. Vacancy mid-term is the county convention. Age seventy vacates the chair.
Three cities, papers, rights
A wrong paper or a mistreated transport: official complaint door and the courts. Relief in ice on the Spaulding is this county’s mutual aid first. Service of process is a person at a door in Barrington. Due process does not pause at the Salmon Falls. Equal protection from Farmington to Durham.