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Saint Anselm College Survey Center

Also published as Saint Anselm.

Research draft
Polls since 2024
16
Latest poll ended
October 20, 2026
Record vs. results, relative
R+1.2

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

The Saint Anselm College Survey Center is housed within the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, and the college says it was founded after the 2016 election and released its first poll in February 2018.1 The college says the Center conducts quarterly polls of New Hampshire voter attitudes through web-based interviews targeted at known registered voters, weighted with a proprietary voter demographic model.1 A college profile describes Neil Levesque, executive director of the institute since July 2009, as the founder of the Survey Center.2,3

Kind
Academic1

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Part of

  • New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. The college's polling page says the Survey Center is housed within the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.1

Founded by

  • Neil Levesque. A Saint Anselm College profile says Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, is the founder of the Survey Center.2

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. Its June 2026 poll release describes the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, which houses the Center, as providing a nonpartisan forum for discussion and debate; the Center's polling page does not say whether it works for candidates or parties.1,4

Of its 16 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor5.

§4Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data6,7: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the result's; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did.
Published asPollsElectionsAverage missRelative to other pollsTypical size of miss538's last rating
Saint Anselm College Survey Center92020–2022R+2.1R+1.24.8 pts2.4 of 3

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§5Its polls

The 16 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
October 19–October 20, 2026Governor · 2026 New HampshireKelly Ayotte 50 · Cinde Warmington 421,672 LV
October 19–October 20, 2026U.S. House · 2026 NH-01Stefany Shaheen 46 · Anthony DiLorenzo 42861 LV
October 19–October 20, 2026U.S. House · 2026 NH-02Maggie Goodlander 54 · Lily Tang Williams 38861 LV
October 19–October 20, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 50 · John Sununu 431,672 LV
August 17–August 18, 2026Governor · 2026 New HampshireKelly Ayotte 49 · Cinde Warmington 381,411 LV
August 17–August 18, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 48 · John Sununu 411,411 LV
August 17–August 18, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 49 · Scott Brown 371,411 LV
August 17–August 18, 2026U.S. House · 2026 NH-02Maggie Goodlander 50 · Lily Tang Williams 35701 LV
June 24–June 25, 2026U.S. House · 2026 NH-02Maggie Goodlander 50 · Lily Tang Williams 311,614 RV
June 24–June 25, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 47 · John Sununu 411,614 RV
June 24–June 25, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 48 · Scott Brown 361,614 RV
June 24–June 25, 2026Governor · 2026 New HampshireKelly Ayotte 45 · Cinde Warmington 371,614 RV
March 16–March 18, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 46 · John Sununu 431,491 RV
March 16–March 18, 2026Governor · 2026 New HampshireKelly Ayotte 46 · Cinde Warmington 391,491 RV
March 16–March 18, 2026Governor · 2026 New HampshireKelly Ayotte 45 · Jon Kiper 311,491 RV
November 18–November 19, 2025U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 44 · John Sununu 412,112 RV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • No founding year is given beyond the Center being founded after the 2016 election and releasing its first poll in February 2018, so founded is left empty.
  • No current director of the Survey Center itself is named; the institute's staff page lists Levesque as executive director of the institute.
  • No fieldwork or panel vendor is named; the June 2026 release describes online surveys of cell phone users drawn from a registered voter sample without saying who collected them.
  • No standing news partners or non-news clients were found.
  • Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the Center.