Abstract: In 1936, a close election in a battleground New Hampshire Congressional district eventually came to focus on the town of Newton, where 34 ballots apparently counted on election night were unaccounted for in later tabulations. The Republican-dominated Executive Council decided that Republican nominee Arthur B. Jenks had won, and he sat in Congress while the Democratic nominee, Alphonse Roy, contested the election. It took an extensive investigation by the Committee on Elections and several dramatic floor votes before a winner was decided only days before time ran out on the 75th Congress.