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Matt Coker

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ123644017 ↗
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Matt Coker is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member for the Belknap 2nd district of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Elected as a Democrat, on February 8, 2024, the New Hampshire Republican Party announced that Coker had switched parties, leaving the Democratic caucus and joining the Republican caucus.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q123644017. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Matt Coker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.