page_title: Ann McLane Kuster
section_title: Elections
hierarchical_section_title: Ann McLane Kuster / U.S. House of Representatives / Elections
caption_attribution_description: English: New Hampshire Representative Annie Kuster speaks at a Hillary Clinton presidential rally at Southern New Hampshire University.
context_page_description: Ann L. McLane Kuster is an American politician, author, and attorney who has been the U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, elected in 2012. A lobbyist and non-profit consultant from Hopkinton, New Hampshire, Kuster is a Democrat.
context_section_description: 2010
  In 2010 Kuster ran for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district against Republican nominee Charles Bass, Libertarian nominee Howard Wilson, and Independent candidate Tim vanBlommesteyn. It was an open seat as Democratic incumbent Paul Hodes was running for the U.S. Senate.
  Bass defeated Kuster 48%–47%, by a margin of just 3,550 votes.
  2012
  Kuster ran for New Hampshire's Second District against Representative Charles Bass again in the 2012 general election. She received the endorsement of Democracy for America, and was selected as one of its Dean Dozen.
  On November 6, 2012, Kuster defeated Bass 50%–45%. In doing so, she became a part of the nation's first all-female congressional delegation. This delegation included current Senior Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Junior Senator Kelly Ayotte, and Representative Carol Shea-Porter, who was defeated in the 2014 elections.
  2014
  Kuster ran for re-election in 2014 against Republican State Representative Marilinda Garcia. In October of that year, State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, a Republican, compared Garcia's looks favorably to Kuster's in a blog post: "Let’s be honest. Does anyone not believe that Congressman Annie Kuster is as ugly as sin? And I hope I haven’t offended sin." Garcia replied in a statement that Vaillancourt's comments were "sexist and have absolutely no place in political discourse."
  Kuster beat Garcia 55-45%. Kuster was a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Frontline Program, designed to help protect vulnerable Democratic incumbents heading into the 2014 election. The primary election took place on September 9, 2014, with the general election held on November 4, 2014. Republicans who ran in Kuster's district included State Representative Garcia and former State Senator Gary Lambert. Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton and his super PAC spent $30,000 on a two-week television ad buy opposing Kuster and her response to the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
  2016
  Kuster ran for re-election in 2016, defeating her Republican opponent, former State Representative Jim Lawrence, 50-45%.
  2018
  On June 12, Kuster announced she would seek a fourth term in Congress. She ran unopposed in the primary. Four Republicans, Robert Burns, Stewart Levenson, Jay Mercer, and Steven Negron, vied to run against her in the general election, while Tom Alciere filed as a Libertarian candidate. Levenson, reported the AP, “was one of the doctors behind a 2017 whistleblower complaint about care” at the Manchester Veterans Affaird Medical Center, and had “accused Kuster, whom he approached about the issue, of being slow to act on it."  Negron won the 4-way Republican primary with 27% of the vote.
caption: Kuster speaks at a Hillary Clinton presidential rally at Southern New Hampshire University in 2016.
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