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Nov. 6, 2012
General Election. See who got elected to office.
Sept.11, 2012
State Primary. We whittled down the list of candidates.
January 10 – 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
New Hampshire's First-In-The-Nation Presidential Primary.
Allenstown voters went to St. John's Parish Hall, 10 School Street and voted as follows in the Republican Primary:
Mitt Romney: 39.3%, Ron Paul: 22.9%, John Huntsman: 16.9%, Newt Gingrich: 9.4%, Rick Santorum: 9.4%, Rick Perry 0.7%, Michele Bachmann: 0.1%.
On the Democratic side, the most unusual Primary candidate was Vermin Supreme from Rockport, Mass. He received 833 votes.
January 10
Warrant Articles. Last day to submit petition warrant articles to the Town Clerk.
January 14 at 10 a.m.
Public Hearing on 2012 Proposed Operating Budgets for Town and School at the Allenstown Elementary School, 30 Main Street. The Town presented its budget and warrant articles first (including a few warrants for Highway Dept. equipment), and then the School Board, which proposed its budget and a four-year contract for teachers' raises.
Attendance was only around 50, and consisted of mostly town officials and employees. So much for citizen involvement.
January 17 at 6:00 p.m.
Public Hearing was held by the Board of Selectmen on proposed town warrant articles. The meeting was at Town Hall, 16 School Street.
January 25 to February 3
Sign up dates for candidates for local office.
February 4 at 9:00 a.m.
First Deliberative Session was at the Allenstown Elementary School. At this public hearing, voters discussed, questioned, and argued about the town, school, and sewer budgets.
March 13 from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Town Election was at St. John's Parish Hall on School St. which is in front of the A.R. Dupont School.
Here are the results of the ballot. Note that only 512 out of 2400 registered voters (21%) participated, in another "tail wags the dog" election.
 For Town Warrant Articles
For Town Candidates
For School District Warrant Articles
For School District Candidates
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