Harris-Trump Showdown Begins With Midnight Votes In Small New Hampshire Township

DIXVILLE NOTCH, NEW HAMPSHIRE - NOVEMBER 05: Les Otten casts the first of six ballots after the polls open on November 5, 2024 in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. (Photo by John Tully/Getty Images)
Les Otten casts the first of six ballots after the polls open on November 5, 2024 in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. (Photo by John Tully/Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
9:16 AM – Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The first results of the 2024 presidential election are from Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, with the 45th President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris splitting the tiny town’s six votes. 

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The final count read out by officials around 12:10 a.m. on Tuesday morning were 3 for Trump and 3 for Harris. 

In 2020, President Joe Biden took all the votes there. In 2016, four people voted for Senator Hillary Clinton, two for Trump and for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. 

The six citizens of the tiny town, which is a remote unincorporated township in New Hampshire’s North County region, cast their ballots at midnight. 

Before voters cast their ballots, Cory Pesaturo, three-time world accordion champion, performed an accordion rendition of the national anthem as voters held their hands over their hearts. 

Dixville Notch began its tradition of midnight voting in 1960. 

All eligible voters in the township, which totaled six in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary in January, gathered in Dixville’s Tillotson House, where voting remained open until everybody cast their ballot. 

Harts Location, which is another New Hampshire small town, started midnight voting in 1948. Additionally, Millfield, which is near Dixville Notch in New Hampshire’s North County, has also held midnight voting. 

However, in the 2024 general election, Dixville Notch was the only location in New Hampshire holding midnight voting.

Tom Tillotson, the longtime town moderator of the vote, noted that “we get our 15 minutes of fame every four years.”

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