Nicholas Gilman

★ U.S. Representative

Born: August 3, 1755
Died: May 2, 1814
Age at death: 58
Home state: New Hampshire
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1788–1796

Career timeline

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RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Gilman7,569

Opponents66,653

Elections run

Between 1788 and 1796, Nicholas Gilman ran in 5 U.S. House elections, winning 4 and losing 1. Gilman's biggest single-election total was 2,912 votes, in the 1792 U.S. House election in New Hampshire's at-large district.

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How many votes has Nicholas Gilman received?

Nicholas Gilman has received 7,569 popular votes across 5 U.S. elections, with a career record of 4–1.

Election history

Nicholas Gilman’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1796	U.S. HouseNew Hampshire	Lost	300.12%	Jeremiah Smith (head-to-head) Abiel Foster (head-to-head) William Gordon Jonathan Freeman Peleg Sprague Woodbury Langdon (head-to-head) John Prentice Thomas Cogswell Nathaniel Peabody (head-to-head) Benjamin Bellows (head-to-head) Joseph Cilley Nathaniel Fogers Timothy Walker (head-to-head) James Shease (head-to-head) Arthur Livermore Israel Evans James Hill Paine Wingate (head-to-head) Roger E Thompson Aaron Hutchinson William Plummer
1794	U.S. HouseNew Hampshire	Won	2,405	Jeremiah Smith (head-to-head) John Sherburne (head-to-head) Abiel Foster (head-to-head) Paine Wingate (head-to-head)
1792	U.S. HouseNew Hampshire	Won	2,912	Jeremiah Smith (head-to-head) John Sherburne (head-to-head) Paine Wingate (head-to-head) Abiel Foster (head-to-head) James Shease (head-to-head) Nathaniel Peabody (head-to-head) Timothy Walker (head-to-head) William Page Joshua Atherton (head-to-head)
1790	U.S. HouseNew Hampshire	Won	1,681	Samuel Livermore (head-to-head) Jeremiah Smith (head-to-head) John Samuel Sherburne Abiel Foster (head-to-head) James Sheafe
1788	U.S. HouseNew Hampshire	Won	5415.1%	Paine Wingate (head-to-head) Samuel Livermore (head-to-head) Benjamin West Abiel Foster (head-to-head) Frank L Sullivan Nathaniel Peabody (head-to-head) Joshua Atherton (head-to-head) Pierce Long Benjamin Bellows (head-to-head) Moses Dow Woodbury Langdon (head-to-head)

Identity & sources. Identity verified against the Congressional Bioguide (G000215) and Wikidata (Q2048880). Election results come from official certified totals and the MIT Election Data and Science Lab; see methodology.

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Compiled by PolitiFinder. Election results from official certified sources and the MIT Election Lab. See Data & sources and methodology. Data last verified July 28, 2026.