The candidates for District 1 state representative are campaigning in Candia, Deerfield, Northwood and Nottingham for votes.

Polls will be open in Candia from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at the town office building to select the winner for a seat left vacant when Robert Johnson of Northwood retired from the post in October.

Town Clerk Christine Dupere said Moore School Principal Bob St. Cyr was “ecstatic” that a third election in the past few months would not disrupt the school day this time.

Only 58 Candia voters took part in the primary election on Dec. 18 in which Jim Sullivan of Deerfield won the Republican candidacy over Don Gorman, also of Deerfield.

Maureen Mann of Deerfield ran as the uncontested Democrat, gaining 31 votes from Candia. In all four towns, 346 voters came out to the polls. Mann got 183 votes, Sullivan 126 and Gorman 37.

Sullivan, a member of Deerfield’s Budget Committee, described himself as a fiscal conservative, adding he would like to “get a grip” on spending and taxes in the state.

He is campaigning “the old New Hampshire way,” he said, including going from door to door in the district. “I want to listen, learn and understand before I form an opinion,” he said.

Maureen Mann, managing editor of The Forum, an online newspaper covering the district’s four towns, said she thinks the biggest issue hitting towns right now is the cost of an adequate education which the state will decide on in the coming months.

“I will be fiscally responsible. I think it’s important to protect the rights of individuals, and I think it’s important to be attentive to local as well as state issues,” Mann said.