New Hampshire Primary Results

Yes, the first of the New Hampshire Primary results are in. Really rather amazing, given that the pollshave only just opened, rather than having closed yet. But one of the oddities of the New Hampshire Primary results is that because of Dixville Notch, the first results are known soon after mindnight, before all of the other balloting places have even opened.

John McCain and Barack Obama won their parties’ early polling in the first-in-the-nation primary in New Hampshire Tuesday, though it was no indication of how the state’s votes would turn.

Nonetheless, the early excitement for poll watchers predicting the outcome of Tuesday’s primary was marked by pandemonium in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch along New Hampshire’s Canadian border, where the number of media and spectators outnumbered residents by multiples.

The town has 17 voters — two Democrats, three Republicans and 12 independents. Turnout was 100 percent. Four votes were cast by absentee ballot despite the fact that each voter was given his or her own booth at the town’s single polling station.

The results were:

McCain with 4 votes, Mitt Romney with 2 votes, Rudy Giuliani with 1 vote. Those were the only Republican votes cast.

On the Democratic side, Obama won a landslide 7 votes compared with 2 for John Edwards, one for Bill Richardson and none for Hillary Clinton.

Shortly after Dixville Notch, another tiny village, Hart’s Location, offered its results. Obama received nine votes, Clinton received three and Edwards received one. On the Republican side, McCain received six, Huckabee received five, Ron Paul received four and Romney one.

OK, it's not really all that important but there it is. If you prefer the results in a more tabular form:

New Hampshire Primary Results from Dixville Notch First Primary Votes cast in the Country

Republican - Primary Winner - Senator John McCain - 57%

McCain - 57%

Romney - 28.7%

Guliani - 14.3%

Democrat Primary - Winner - Senator Barak Obama - 70%

Obama -70%

Edwards – 20%

Richardson - 10%

Clinton - 0

And the Hart's Location results:

• McCain 6 votes
• Mike Huckabee 5 votes
• Ron Paul 4 votes
• Romney 1 vote

• Obama 9 votes
• Hillary Clinton 3 votes
• Edwards 1 vote