New Hampshire still has not drawn new U.S. House districts. The legislature passed the bill, HB 52, on March 17. Governor Chris Sununu then said he would veto it, but he has not vetoed it yet. Instead on March 22 he sent his own preferred plan to the legislature.

The petition for statewide independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, has a distribution requirement. There must be 1,500 signatures from each of the two U.S. House districts. It is impractical for anyone to circulate these petitions until the districts are settled. When they are settled, the petitioning period will have been shrunk; normally these petitions begin to circulate in January.

Courts in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, and Montana have ruled that when the normal petitioning period is shortened, states must either extend the deadline or reduce the number of signatures. All of these decisions were from U.S. District Courts, except one of the Georgia decisions and the Maryland decision was made by a U.S. Court of Appeals. A lawsuit in New Hampshire this year, based on these precedents, could potentially cut the number of signatures. There is a somewhat helpful New Hampshire precedent from 2020, when a U.S. District Court cut the number of signatures due to the Covid health crisis from 3,000 signatures to 1,950 signatures.