A new independent voter community called Unaffiliateds is betting that New Hampshire’s undeclared majority can become something more than a swing vote – a pipeline for Independent candidates who actually win.
By Granite State Report
Introduction: A State Built on “None of the Above”
In New Hampshire, the most powerful political identity isn’t Democrat or Republican. It’s “undeclared.”
As of August 5, 2025, official records from the New Hampshire Secretary of State show 272,316 registered Democrats, 321,650 Republicans, and 378,549 undeclared voters – making undeclared the single largest bloc in the state’s electorate. (New Hampshire Secretary of State) Undeclared voters have also outnumbered both major parties in earlier snapshots; at the end of 2023, the state recorded 343,192 undeclared voters versus 262,262 Democrats and 267,905 Republicans. (New Hampshire Secretary of State)
Unlike voters in many states, New Hampshire’s undeclared voters can choose either major party ballot in partisan primaries without permanently joining that party. The Secretary of State’s own guidance highlights this unusual flexibility, noting that undeclared voters may affiliate at the polling place for a primary and then switch back to undeclared afterwards. (New Hampshire Secretary of State) This has given undeclareds enormous leverage over presidential primaries and key down-ballot contests.
Now, a Facebook-based independent voter movement calling itself “Unaffiliateds” wants to turn that latent power into something more concrete: recruiting, training, and electing Independent candidates in local and state races, while building issue-focused infrastructure outside the parties.
The core investigative question is simple:
New Hampshire already runs on undeclared voters. Can a digital movement like Unaffiliateds turn those voters into an organized force that actually wins Independent seats – or will it run into the same structural barriers that have stalled third-party and independent efforts for decades?
Answering that requires stepping back from the Facebook page and looking at three things:
- The rise of independent and unaffiliated voters nationally and in New Hampshire
- What we know – and don’t know – about organizing through Facebook groups
- The hard math of running Independent candidates under New Hampshire’s election rules
This article draws on election statistics, academic work on unaffiliated voters, research on social media and political participation, and recent polling on the independent surge – and then situates Unaffiliateds inside that landscape.
1. New Hampshire: A Laboratory for the Unaffiliated
New Hampshire has long punched above its weight in American politics, thanks to its first-in-the-nation presidential primary and culture of intense retail campaigning. But the most important number in modern Granite State politics may not be who wins each contest – it’s who doesn’t belong to a party.
Undeclared as the plurality
New Hampshire formally recognizes partisan registration categories: Democrat, Republican, and a catch-all “undeclared” status for voters not aligned with a party. State party registration history compiled by the Secretary of State shows that undeclared voters have been the largest group for years, regularly outnumbering both Democrats and Republicans. (New Hampshire Secretary of State)
A December 2023 snapshot reported by WMUR, citing the same state data, found 343,192 undeclared voters, compared with 262,262 Democrats and 267,905 Republicans. (WMUR) More recent analysis by fact-check outlet Factually, which reviewed the August 5, 2025, registration file, confirmed that undeclared voters remained the single largest group at 378,549 of 972,515 total registered voters. (Factually)
That makes New Hampshire a microcosm of a national trend. Gallup’s long-term party identification series shows that self-identified independents reached 43 percent of U.S. adults in 2023 – matching a record high first set in 2014 – while Democrats and Republicans each fell to 27–28 percent. (Sharyl Attkisson) Independent-focused outlets summarizing the same Gallup data note that independents have gone from the smallest of the three major political categories to the largest over the past three decades. (GovFacts)
A system that relies on independents but doesn’t empower them
New Hampshire’s election rules deepen this paradox. The state does not offer a separate “Independent” party line; voters who want to avoid party registration are simply listed as undeclared. (New Hampshire Secretary of State) Yet these voters have outsized influence over party contests.
Under New Hampshire law and Secretary of State guidance, undeclared voters may choose either a Democratic or Republican ballot in primaries, including for president, effectively serving as kingmakers in competitive races. (New Hampshire Secretary of State) Analysts from outlets such as WMUR and the New Hampshire Bulletin routinely describe undeclared voters as the “largest bloc” and decisive factor in primaries, especially in close GOP contests where one candidate courts undeclareds as a counterweight to the party base. (WMUR)
A committee report on House Bill 101, prepared for the New Hampshire legislature, underlined this dynamic. It noted that as of September 29, 2022, roughly 36 percent of registered voters were undeclared and recalled a 1996 gubernatorial primary in which one party allegedly encouraged its voters to temporarily switch affiliation to influence the other party’s primary. (New Hampshire Governor’s Office)
The result is a structural contradiction:
- Undeclared voters are central to how the two major parties select nominees.
- Yet undeclared voters have almost no infrastructure of their own.
They can swing primaries but struggle to field and sustain independent candidates. That gap is where Unaffiliateds is trying to operate.
2. Who Are the “Unaffiliateds”? The Voter Behind the Label
Before asking whether Unaffiliateds the Facebook movement can matter, it’s worth understanding unaffiliated voters as a political species.
Independents: more complicated than the myth
The image of the independent voter as hyper-informed, non-tribal, and fiercely issue-driven is more aspirational than descriptive.
Classic work like The Myth of the Independent Voter by Bruce Keith and colleagues argued that many self-identified independents are “closet partisans” whose voting behavior strongly aligns with one major party. More recent scholarship has complicated but not overturned that picture. (Colorado Pols)
A 2023 article in State Politics & Policy Quarterly examined unaffiliated registered voters in Florida and North Carolina. It found that the choice not to register with a party correlated strongly with an independent political identity – but many of these voters still leaned consistently toward one party when forced to choose. (Cambridge University Press & Assessment) The authors suggest understanding them as “unmoored voters”: people who drift near one partisan “dock” but are willing to move under the right conditions.
Other analysts and journalists have come to similar conclusions from different angles. A Columbia Journalism Review analysis of “the unaffiliateds” summarized nationwide registration trends and concluded that a shift toward unaffiliated labels does not automatically mean ideological moderation or a coherent “independent” bloc; many voters retain stable partisan preferences but reject party brands. (Columbia Journalism Review)
Yet their numbers – and leverage – are real
Whatever their internal motivations, independent and unaffiliated voters are now essential to American elections.
- Gallup and multiple news outlets summarizing its data report that independents have been the largest single identification group nationally, at roughly 43 percent, for 2023–2024. (Sharyl Attkisson)
- Reuters, drawing on Edison Research exit polls from the 2024 presidential election, found that self-identified independents comprised 34 percent of the electorate – for the first time exceeding Democrats and tying Republicans in turnout share. (Reuters)
- Independent-oriented groups such as the Independent Center and GovFacts argue, based on these data, that independents have moved from swing “spice” to central ingredient in coalition math. (Independent Center)
In New Hampshire, this leverage is magnified by open primary rules and the state’s political competitiveness. UNH and other pollsters routinely note that independent voters – often around 30–40 percent of the general electorate – swing close statewide races. (UNH Scholars Repository)
The paradox is that while independents can reward or punish major party candidates, they seldom succeed in electing their own.
3. Social Media as a Third Space: What Facebook Groups Actually Do
Unaffiliateds is part of a broader trend: political communities using Facebook groups as their primary organizing hub.
Groups vs pages: from broadcasting to organizing
Digital strategy analyses distinguish between Facebook Pages (used for broadcasting campaign messaging) and Groups (used for interaction and community-building). A 2024 overview of political Facebook use notes that groups excel at fostering “grassroots organizing and conversations among supporters,” allowing members to discuss issues, coordinate actions, and build identity in a semi-closed environment. (digitaljuan.com)
Academic work on public Facebook groups tied to movements like the Women’s March and March for Science finds that organizers use group features (membership vetting, rules, moderation) to manage privacy concerns while enabling large-scale mobilization. These groups became hubs for information-sharing, event planning, and cross-city coordination. (Cambridge University Press & Assessment)
Independent candidates and movements have increasingly used social media to bypass party infrastructure. A 2025 guide from GoodParty, which works with independent campaigns, argues that social platforms are critical to “build grassroots momentum, increase name recognition, and speak directly to your community, no party required.” (GoodParty.org)
The limits – and misunderstood risks – of Facebook politics
The story of social media and politics is often told as one of radicalization and echo chambers. Some of those concerns are well-supported: investigative reporting and research collaborations have documented extremist groups using Facebook to recruit and coordinate, despite nominal moderation policies. (WIRED)
But the effect of social media on polarization is not as straightforward as popular narratives suggest. A research project led by Stanford’s Neil Malhotra and others, looking specifically at Facebook’s role in recent U.S. elections, concluded that the incremental effect of Facebook access on political polarization was “potentially overstated” in public debate, even as the platform unquestionably changed information flows. (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
What is clearer is that:
- Social media dramatically lowers the cost of forming political communities.
- Those communities can be inclusive and issues-based – or conspiratorial and factional – depending on design and leadership.
- Most importantly for Unaffiliateds, Facebook can serve as a “third space” between official party structures and private individual disengagement.
Independent-focused commentators have noted that social media gives independents “more choices” of information sources that are not obviously aligned with either major party, which matters for voters already skeptical of partisan media. (Independent Center)
In that sense, a Facebook group targeting New Hampshire’s undeclared voters is not an anomaly. It’s a local instance of a much larger re-organization of political identity online.
4. Inside Unaffiliateds: From Comment Section to Candidate Pipeline
Because Unaffiliateds is an emerging Facebook-based movement, its footprint outside the platform is limited. Searches of news archives and public records as of November 2025 show no existing coverage of the group by mainstream outlets, nor any associated registered political party or PAC filings in New Hampshire. (Gazette)
That lack of public documentation makes it difficult to independently verify internal claims about membership numbers or organizing capacity – and any serious reporting has to say that upfront. Still, the movement’s strategy and potential impact can be understood by placing it next to three realities:
- New Hampshire’s unusually large undeclared voter pool
- The mechanics of running Independent candidates under state law
- How similarly situated voters have altered party behavior elsewhere
What Unaffiliateds is trying to do
Based on its stated focus – a Facebook community for independent-minded Granite Staters skeptical of both parties and interested in supporting Independent candidates – Unaffiliateds is attempting three things at once:
- Identity formation: Turning “undeclared” from a bureaucratic label into a shared political identity with norms, values, and expectations.
- Issue aggregation: Collecting and prioritizing the problems that matter most to New Hampshire independents – from property taxes to housing costs to mental health and addiction.
- Candidate development: Encouraging, recruiting, or eventually endorsing candidates who run as independents or unaffiliated in local and state races.
That strategy lines up with a growing body of work arguing that independents will only exert structural power if they don’t just swing between the parties but also develop their own “parallel infrastructure” – lists, media channels, small-dollar fundraising, and policy platforms – similar to party institutions but more open and fluid. (Independent Center)
The choice of Facebook as a base is pragmatic: according to digital organizing guides and tech-focused analyses of independent voter engagement, platforms where people already spend time – Facebook, YouTube, and newer independent-friendly networks – are the most cost-effective place to start building such infrastructure. (GoodParty.org)
For Unaffiliateds to matter in the long run, however, it will have to cross a difficult bridge: from discussion space to candidate pipeline.
5. The Ballot Test: How Hard Is It to Run as an Independent in New Hampshire?
Building a Facebook community is one thing. Putting “Independent” next to a candidate’s name on a ballot – and winning – is another.
Structural barriers to Independent candidates
Political scientists and election analysts have long noted that America’s single-member, first-past-the-post elections make it difficult for third-party and independent candidates to win, even when dissatisfaction with both major parties is high. Duverger’s law – the idea that winner-take-all systems tend toward two dominant parties – is more a tendency than an iron rule, but it reflects hard structural incentives. (Wiley Online Library)
Studies of independents and unaffiliateds at the state level consistently find that while these voters can decide close elections between major-party candidates, they rarely succeed in electing candidates of their own. (Wiley Online Library) Even in states with high unaffiliated registration – Colorado, North Carolina, Maryland – the number of independents actually holding office remains small, with a few local exceptions and occasional high-profile cases like unaffiliated mayors. (Denver Westword)
New Hampshire is no exception. Publicly available election results compiled by ElectionStats and New Hampshire Public Radio show very few successful independent candidates for state-level offices in recent cycles; contests are overwhelmingly won by Republicans or Democrats, even where independents play a decisive role as voters. (NH Elections Database)
New Hampshire’s rules: opportunity and friction
New Hampshire law does allow independent or “non-party” candidates to appear on general election ballots, subject to ballot-access requirements such as signature collection or filing fees, depending on the office and route chosen. Those details are laid out in Secretary of State guidance and statutes governing nominations by nomination papers rather than primaries. (New Hampshire Secretary of State)
But three features constrain independent bids:
- No separate “Independent Party” line. Candidates can be listed without party affiliation, but there is no institutional “Independent Party” structure recognized by the state. That makes name recognition and branding harder. (New Hampshire Secretary of State)
- Straight-ticket psychology. Even where ballots do not offer a formal straight-ticket option, voters are used to choosing within party columns, especially in lower-information races. Research on independent candidates nationally shows that many voters default to party labels as heuristics under time pressure. (Wiley Online Library)
- Resource constraints. Parties provide fundraising networks, field staff, legal support, and voter data. Independent candidates must build or rent those tools from scratch, which is especially difficult in local races with limited media attention.
That does not make independent runs impossible. But it helps explain why, despite New Hampshire’s large undeclared electorate, independent officeholders remain rare.
For Unaffiliateds, then, the challenge is not just persuasion. It is institution-building: offering some of the functions of a party – recruitment, vetting, some coordination of messaging – without becoming one.
6. Could a Facebook Movement Actually Move Votes?
So what would it take for a group like Unaffiliateds to have measurable impact on New Hampshire politics?
The research on social media and political participation offers both optimism and caution.
Social media can boost participation – with the right design
A growing body of studies and syntheses finds that social media can increase political participation by lowering informational and coordination costs. Reviews of the literature note that platforms like Facebook facilitate exposure to political content, mobilize supporters to attend events, and provide tools for contacting officials or organizing around issues. (scitechsociety.com)
Analyses focused on independent voters argue that digital spaces are particularly important for those who don’t belong to party organizations. The Independent Center, for example, points out that independents often feel excluded from primary debates and party media, making alternative channels a key way to share information, compare candidates, and advocate for structural reforms like open primaries or nonpartisan election administration. (Independent Center)
Real-world campaigns provide some evidence that digital organizing can help outsiders. Independent and non-establishment candidates at local and state levels have used social media to compensate, in part, for lack of party infrastructure – though systematic success remains limited and highly context-dependent. Guides produced for independent candidates stress that online organizing is most effective when paired with traditional tactics like door-knocking and local media outreach. (GoodParty.org)
But online independents are not automatically representative
At the same time, research and polling warn against assuming that politically active independents in online groups represent the median unaffiliated voter.
The State Politics & Policy Quarterly study of unaffiliated registrants noted that many unaffiliateds are actually less engaged in day-to-day politics than strong partisans. (Cambridge University Press & Assessment) Earlier work and media analysis echo this caution, arguing that the image of independents as universally attentive and civic-minded does not match the average independent’s political behavior. (Colorado Pols)
Polls of New Hampshire independents before recent primaries have found a mix of:
- Highly engaged voters who relish the state’s first-in-the-nation status
- “Low-information” independents who decide late or skip primaries entirely
- Voters whose independent identity stems more from social or cultural distance from parties than from specific policy stances (CBS News)
For Unaffiliateds, this means that a Facebook group filled with outspoken, issue-focused independents may overrepresent a particular slice of the unaffiliated population. Turning that group into a force that moves broader public opinion or turnout will likely depend on whether it can translate online discussions into offline organizing that reaches less-engaged voters.
7. Lessons from Other “Unaffiliated” Surges
While Unaffiliateds as a named movement is new, the broader phenomenon of unaffiliated voters reshaping political incentives has played out elsewhere.
Colorado, North Carolina, Maryland: warning shots to party establishments
States like Colorado and North Carolina have seen sharp rises in unaffiliated registration, with unaffiliateds now rivaling or surpassing party registrants in some jurisdictions. (Denver Westword)
In Colorado, roughly 50 percent of registered voters are now unaffiliated, according to state-level commentary and analysis. (Complete Colorado) North Carolina’s unaffiliateds have more than doubled since 2008 and are expected to be the largest bloc in key primaries; op-eds warning party elites to “beware… the rise of the unaffiliateds” are now common. (NC Spin)
Maryland has seen a quieter but significant surge in unaffiliated registration, prompting discussion about how these voters could shape high-profile races, including U.S. Senate contests in which candidates explicitly pitch themselves as independent-minded alternatives to party extremes. (Open Primaries)
Despite these shifts, unaffiliateds rarely elect unaffiliated candidates. Their power has instead operated through threat and leverage:
- Forcing parties to adjust messaging to appeal to moderates or cross-pressured voters
- Driving experiments with open or semi-open primaries, ranked-choice voting, or nonpartisan election reforms
- Creating political space for “independent but party-registered” candidates who challenge leadership
In that sense, Unaffiliateds in New Hampshire may end up reshaping the political landscape even if it never grows large enough to become a formal independent party or reliably elect independent candidates.
If the movement can aggregate and amplify the concerns of unaffiliated voters – particularly on high-salience issues like taxes, housing, energy costs, and mental health – it could influence how both parties frame their agendas, whom they nominate, and how they campaign.
8. What Success Would Actually Look Like
Given the structural hurdles, what would realistic success look like for a movement like Unaffiliateds over the next several election cycles?
Based on comparative cases and New Hampshire’s specific context, three benchmarks stand out.
1. Building a credible independent media and feedback loop
One of the most powerful contributions an independent movement can make is informational rather than electoral: providing a trusted space where unaffiliated voters can:
- Compare candidates and policies without party spin
- Surface local issues that are under-covered by national media
- Hold major-party officials accountable to a cross-partisan audience
Research on independent voters suggests they often feel alienated not just from parties but from partisan media ecosystems. (Independent Center) A Facebook group that consistently curates credible information, enforces fact-based discussion, and resists conspiracy drift could fill a genuine gap.
That may be less flashy than electing an independent governor – but more achievable in the short term and still politically consequential.
2. Influencing candidate recruitment and primaries
Even if most Unaffiliateds-aligned candidates end up running within party primaries rather than as independents, a movement that can recruit, train, and support independent-minded candidates could shift the ideological and stylistic profile of nominees.
Election analysts have repeatedly noted that in a state where undeclared voters can choose either primary, candidates who appeal beyond their base have structural advantages – and that independents have already been key to moderates’ success in New Hampshire and comparable states. (InDepthNH.org)
If Unaffiliateds becomes known as a meaningful gatekeeper of undeclared sentiment – a place candidates have to engage if they want credibility with unaffiliateds – it could effectively become a parallel caucus system, even without formal party status.
3. Breaking through in local races
The most plausible early wins for independent candidates are at the municipal and local level, where:
- Party labels are weaker or absent
- Voters often care more about competence on concrete issues than ideological positioning
- Campaign costs are lower
New Hampshire’s 2025 municipal elections, like those tracked by WMUR and the state’s election statistics portal, show that nonpartisan and local contests remain fertile ground for experimentation. (WMUR)
If Unaffiliateds can help elect a cluster of credible independents to school boards, select boards, or city councils – particularly in towns where undeclared voters already make up 40 percent or more of the electorate, as in Rollinsford and Somersworth – it would demonstrate that the undeclared label can be more than a polling category. (Wikipedia)
Those local officials, in turn, could be the seedbed for higher-level independent candidacies.
9. Visualizing the Stakes
For readers trying to situate Unaffiliateds in the broader context, three visuals would help:
- A line chart of New Hampshire party registration from 2000 to 2025
Caption: “Undeclared voters have consistently been the largest registration category in New Hampshire, widening their lead over Democrats and Republicans in recent years.”
Source data: New Hampshire Secretary of State party registration history. (New Hampshire Secretary of State) - A national bar chart showing party identification in 2023–2024
Caption: “Gallup data show that 43% of U.S. adults now identify as independent, more than either major party.”
Source data: Gallup party ID series summarized by UPI, Newsmax, and independent-voter organizations. (Sharyl Attkisson) - A simplified diagram of how undeclared voters can choose primary ballots in New Hampshire
Caption: “New Hampshire’s rules allow undeclared voters to choose either party’s primary ballot at the polls, then revert to undeclared – a level of flexibility rare in U.S. election law.”
Source data: New Hampshire Secretary of State FAQ and legislative documentation. (New Hampshire Secretary of State)
10. Related Videos for Context and Human Voices
For readers who want to see and hear New Hampshire independents – and understand the broader independent trend – the following videos add useful texture:
- How New Hampshire’s undeclared voters could sway the Republican primary – CBS News explainer on undeclared voters’ role in a recent GOP primary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSihAQszfH8 (youtube.com)
- Undeclared voters speak ahead of New Hampshire primary – NBC segment interviewing undeclared Granite Staters about how they approach their choices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmOrvrjUwAg (youtube.com)
- What is an independent voter? – Short explainer on the meaning and impact of independent voters nationally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXtuhHXEPSk (youtube.com)
- The Impact of Party Affiliation on Voter Turnout in New Hampshire – A breakdown of turnout patterns with a focus on undeclared voters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxmSFRiw2p8 (youtube.com)
These pieces are not about Unaffiliateds specifically, but they illustrate the human and strategic stakes of any effort to organize independents in the state.
Conclusion: From Label to Leverage
New Hampshire is one of the few places in America where the political center of gravity, at least on paper, belongs to people who refuse to pick a party.
Official registration statistics show undeclared voters as the largest bloc in the state, regularly outnumbering both Democrats and Republicans. (New Hampshire Secretary of State) National polling confirms that independents now constitute the largest single identification group in the United States, with turnout shares rivaling or surpassing the parties in recent elections. (Sharyl Attkisson)
Yet for all their numerical strength, independent and unaffiliated voters have struggled to convert that presence into durable institutional power. Academic research warns that many independents are “unmoored” but not necessarily nonpartisan; others are disengaged or only intermittently active. (Wiley Online Library) The electoral system itself, with single-member districts and party-centric infrastructure, stacks the deck against independent candidates. (Wiley Online Library)
The Facebook movement styling itself Unaffiliateds is an experiment inside that contradiction.
Its ambitions – to give undeclared voters in New Hampshire a home, a voice, and eventually a slate of Independent candidates – are audacious in light of the structural constraints. Its chosen tools – a Facebook group, digital organizing, issue-focused discussion – reflect the realities of 21st-century political life, where communities increasingly form online before they act offline. (GoodParty.org)
Whether Unaffiliateds becomes a footnote or a force will depend on factors that cannot be fully measured yet:
- Can it sustain fact-based, cross-partisan conversation without sliding into the polarization it hopes to escape?
- Can it move beyond commentary to help identify, train, and support credible independent-minded candidates?
- Can it win local races, or at least become a venue that serious candidates must engage to reach undeclared voters?
If it succeeds even partially – by turning “undeclared” from a passive registration status into an organized, self-aware constituency – the impact will not be limited to any single cycle. Parties in Concord and Washington have already learned, sometimes painfully, that independents can topple comfortable assumptions about who shows up, and why. (AP News)
New Hampshire has been a proving ground for presidential hopefuls for generations. It may now, through efforts like Unaffiliateds, become a proving ground for a different question: whether the country’s largest political “group” – voters who don’t want a party label – can finally build something of their own.
If they can, the story of New Hampshire politics in the next decade will not be about which party wins which office. It will be about how the people who checked “none of the above” stopped being a statistic and started becoming a movement.
References
Academic and Analytical Sources
- Cambridge University Press. (2023). Not a Teammate and Not a Fan: Probing the Identities of Unaffiliated Registered Voters. State Politics & Policy Quarterly. (Cambridge University Press & Assessment)
- Columbia Journalism Review. Understanding the Unaffiliateds. (Columbia Journalism Review)
- Keith, B. E., et al. (1992). The Myth of the Independent Voter. (Referenced via secondary discussion.) (Colorado Pols)
- Malhotra, N., et al. (2023). Studies on Facebook and polarization, summarized by Stanford Graduate School of Business. (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
- UNH Scholars’ Repository. Independent or undeclared? The role of the undeclared voter in the New Hampshire primary. (UNH Scholars Repository)
- Wiley Online Library. Growing and Distinct: The Unaffiliated Voter as Unmoored Voter. (Wiley Online Library)
Official Data and Government
- New Hampshire Secretary of State. Party Registration History 1970–2025. (New Hampshire Secretary of State)
- New Hampshire Secretary of State. Frequently Asked Questions: Voting in Party Primaries. (New Hampshire Secretary of State)
- New Hampshire House of Representatives. HB101 Committee Report. (New Hampshire Governor’s Office)
- New Hampshire ElectionStats / New Hampshire Public Radio. New Hampshire Election Results and Statistics. (NH Elections Database)
News and Nonpartisan Journalism
- WMUR. New Hampshire undeclared voters outnumber voters from parties. (WMUR)
- New Hampshire Bulletin. Coverage of party registration shifts. (New Hampshire Bulletin)
- Reuters. In a first, US independent turnout tops Democrats, ties Republicans, Edison Research says. (Reuters)
- UPI. Number of U.S. voters who call themselves independent highest on record. (UPI)
- Newsmax. Gallup Poll: Independents Remain Largest US Voting Bloc. (Newsmax)
- Axios. Democrats sink, independents surge as 2024 election heats up. (Axios)
- AP News. Decision Notes: What to expect in the New Hampshire primaries; Trump rides to New Hampshire victory…. (AP News)
- Independent Voter Project. New Hampshire Voter Registration Statistics. (Independent Voter Project)
- Factually. New Hampshire voter registration statistics analysis. (Factually)
- InDepthNH. Election statistics show growing percentage of independent voters. (InDepthNH.org)
Independent/Nonpartisan Organizations
- Independent Center. New Social Media Means More Choices for Independent Voters; Independent Voters Hold the Power; New Hampshire Independent Voter Resources. (Independent Center)
- GovFacts. Why Independent Voters Are America’s Largest Political Group. (GovFacts)
- Open Primaries / related analysis. Surge in Maryland’s unaffiliated voters could reshape future elections. (Open Primaries)
Social Media and Digital Organizing
- DigitalJuan. Facebook Groups: Fostering Political Community and Engagement. (digitaljuan.com)
- Cambridge University Press. Public Facebook Groups for Political Activism (March for Science, Women’s March case study). (Cambridge University Press & Assessment)
- GoodParty. The 6 Best Political Social Media Platforms for 2025. (GoodParty.org)
- SciTechSociety. The Impact of Social Media on Political Participation. (scitechsociety.com)
Comparative “Unaffiliateds” and Independent Trends
- Colorado and unaffiliated voters: Westword; Complete Colorado; ColoradoPolitics; NCSpin commentary on unaffiliated rise. (Denver Westword)
- Maryland unaffiliated surge and election implications. (Open Primaries)
YouTube and Broadcast Segments
- CBS News. How New Hampshire’s undeclared voters could sway the Republican primary. (youtube.com)
- NBC News. Undeclared Voters Speak Ahead of New Hampshire Primary. (youtube.com)
- CountyOffice.org / explainer. What Is an Independent Voter? (youtube.com)
- Video explainer on New Hampshire turnout and party affiliation. (youtube.com)
Note: Because the Unaffiliateds Facebook movement has limited public documentation as of publication, this article verifies all structural claims (about independents, New Hampshire law, election data, and social media dynamics) through external sources, while treating the movement’s internal strategy as illustrative of the broader independent trend rather than as a fully documented organization.
