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

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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 45^thPresident Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris splitting the tiny town’s six votes.

🚨🇺🇸 ELECTION DAY BEGINS: TINY NH TOWN KICKS OFF 2024 VOTE AT MIDNIGHT

The first votes of Election Day 2024 are being cast in Dixville Notch, NH, continuing a 65-year midnight voting tradition.

The tiny town of just six registered voters typically completes its entire voting… pic.twitter.com/kshfRDF1H2

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 5, 2024

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.