Dixville Notch results: Nikki Haley sweeps first New Hampshire town to cast primary election votes

A quadrennial tradition returned at the stroke of midnight as Dixville Notch held its midnight vote in the 2024 Presidential primary elections.

The poll in the remote New Hampshire town near the Canadian border opened at midnight Monday and closed after all the residents have voted.

Six votes were up for grabs this year, one more than in 2020. All six of the votes went to Nikki Haley, the Republican candidate and the former ambassador to the United Nations. This year, Republicans are deciding between the two candidates left in the primary: Haley and former President Donald Trump.

On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden will be a write-in candidate as he did not file to participate in the election to support the Democratic National Committee's move to recognize South Carolina as the party's first primary vote. The Biden campaign has waged an effort to have supporters write in the president to defeat fringe challengers like Rep. Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson who have used the unsanctioned primary to argue that the president is subject to a competitive primary.

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Who won the Dixville Notch primary in 2024?

All six of the small town's votes went to Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and the lone challenger to former President Trump in the Republican Primary.

On Sunday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he was suspending his campaign.

When did Dixville Notch start its midnight vote?

The midnight tradition began in 1960.

Voting at midnight started in Dixville Notch when Neil Tillotson lead a successful campaign at the New Hampshire Legislature to recognize the town as a stand-alone voting precinct, according to CBS News.

"It's an unincorporated township, and at that point, it wasn't authorized to do anything," Tom Tillotson, Neil's son and current Town Moderator told the network. "They got together, nine people, and voted at midnight," Tillotson said. "I don't think there was much press coverage that first year … but that started the tradition."

Though the town was not the first town to hold a midnight vote, it will be the only town to do so in 2024, according to WMUR.

Who did Dixville Notch vote for in 2020?

Dixville Notch voted for Michael Bloomberg in the 2020 Presidential primary and Biden in the general election, according to the Associated Press.

In the Republican primary Bloomberg received three write-in votes, and Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders each received one vote in the Democratic primary. Biden won all five votes in the general.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Dixville Notch, NH vote results: Town kicks off 2024 primary election