Tony Caplan

Official election context

Tony Caplan is recorded as candidate for State House — Merrimack 8 in New Hampshire State Primary on 2026-09-08. Filing provenance: imported.

Reviewed evidence

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "We don't need to. We can raise money other ways. But the main thing we need to do is stop cutting taxes for the wealthiest and most powerful and making it up by cutting services and programs for the neediest. That ideology is indefensible and has put us in a budgetary hole."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "We need more affordable, 'infill' housing. Foir example, allow duplexes where ADUs are currently."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "We are the worst state in the country for the regressive way we fund local schools. The state needs to step up to fulfill its constitutional duty."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "Birth control decisions are best left up to private citizens and their medical practitioners."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "Yes, of course. It's common sense. We need mental health provisions and we need to outlaw certain weapons that are meant for military uses only."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "SMRs perhaps will be feasible years from now. It's not the state's role to plump for an untested, commercially unviable technology at this point."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "Not 5 MW for residential. That makes no sense. But yes for commercial and industrial participants in net metering if the net metering rates are market based. We need the electricity on the grid, and we need to allow businesses to keep their costs down. Win-win."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  "Increase funding for the Child Care Quality Program (GSQ) and the New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship Program (NHCCSP)."

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Voted for greenhouse gas emission reduction goal, to net zero by 2050 HB 208 (2023)

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Voted to ban the sale of consumer products with added PFAS HB 1649 (2024)

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Voted to permanently reauthorize expanded Medicaid program SB 263 (2023)

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Voted to consider expanding background checks, adding 3-day waiting period for firearm transfers HB 56 (2025)

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Voted against allowing no-cause eviction at the end of a lease HB 60 (2025)

• Tony Caplan - profile overview — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Voted to continue to allow state involvement in refugee resettlement HB 1706 (2026)

Profile summary

Tony Caplan is a Democratic New Hampshire state representative for Merrimack District 8, representing Bradford, Henniker, and Warner. The New Hampshire House profile says he graduated from Yale University in 1982, worked as a journalist and high-school Spanish teacher, raised three children in Henniker, and previously chaired the Henniker Energy Committee.