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Sununu was first elected governor of New Hampshire in 2016. He was reelected in 2018, 2020, and 2022. Sununu is the second governor in New Hampshire history (after John Lynch) to be elected to a fourth term. [2] On July 19, 2023, he announced that he would not run for a fifth term. [3] He endorsed Kelly Ayotte, who won the election to succeed him.
The 50-year-old Sununu, who when he was first elected in 2016 was the nation's youngest governor, has also, for months, repeatedly ruled out running for the Senate in New Hampshire in 2026.
Sununu became New Hampshire's 75th governor on January 6, 1983, and was re-elected twice to hold the position for three consecutive terms. He was the first Arab-American governor of New Hampshire. Sununu was chairman of the Coalition of Northeastern Governors, the Republican Governors Association and, in 1987, the National Governors Association.
In New Hampshire, the governor has no term limit of any kind. Only two governors have served more than three terms since the 18th century (when the term was for only one year), John Lynch , who won a fourth two-year term on November 2, 2010, and Chris Sununu , who won a fourth two-year term on November 8, 2022. [ 3 ]
Sununu, who is only the second governor in New Hampshire history to serve four terms, has just under a year left in the corner office. After flirting with running for U.S. Senate and president, he ...
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu has announced he will not run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. ... Currently serving his fourth term as governor, Sununu is a staunch fiscal ...
New Hampshire is a Democratic-leaning state in New England, with a pattern of split-ticket voting. Incumbent Republican governor Chris Sununu was narrowly elected in 2016 and easily won re-election in 2020 .
His father John Sununu, himself a former New Hampshire governor, served as White House chief of staff under Republican President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1991.