--- title: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders Lead in New Hampshire Polls description: Both candidates have significant leads within their parties canonical: https://time.com/4213172/polls-new-hampshire-trump-sanders/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-09T00:14:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:25.100Z article:section: Politics og:title: Latest Polls Show Trump and Sanders Leading New Hampshire og:description: Both candidates have significant leads within their parties og:url: https://time.com/4213172/polls-new-hampshire-trump-sanders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21aca8ee0c98e9e3/69887cb4f887dc98b0e94851/bernie-sanders.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Holds New Hampshire Campaign Rallies og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Latest Polls Show Trump and Sanders Leading New Hampshire twitter:description: Both candidates have significant leads within their parties twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21aca8ee0c98e9e3/69887cb4f887dc98b0e94851/bernie-sanders.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Latest Polls Show Trump and Sanders Leading New Hampshire > Sponsored content. 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Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks during a campaign event at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Feb 9, 2016 12:14 AM UTC Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders each hold comfortably wide margins of advantage in the most recent polls on Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. According to the [CNN/WMUR](http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/politics/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-new-hampshire-poll/index.html) poll released Monday night, [Sanders](http://time.com/4212575/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-wall-street-donations/) was leading [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4212577/madeleine-albright-hillary-clinton-special-place-hell-defends/) 61% to 35% among Democratic primary voters. Among Republicans, Trump held 31%, followed by Marco Rubio with 17%, Ted Cruz with 14% and John Kasich with 10%. Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie and Ben Carson were each in the single digits. The latest results from the [Emerson College Polling Society](http://media.wix.com/ugd/3bebb2%5F40ad3c95ef7d40e5bc8470098cbc702f.pdf) showed a closer Democratic race, with Sanders leading Clinton 54% to 42%. While Trump holds exactly the same amount of support in the Emerson poll (31%), his competitors have a much different spread: There, Jeb Bush is holding second place with 16% of support, followed by John Kasich with 13%, Marco Rubio with 12% and Ted Cruz with 11%. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4213172/polls-new-hampshire-trump-sanders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4213172/polls-new-hampshire-trump-sanders/"},"headline":"Latest Polls Show Trump and Sanders Leading New Hampshire","datePublished":"2016-02-09T00:14:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:25.100Z","description":"Both candidates have significant leads within their parties","url":"https://time.com/4213172/polls-new-hampshire-trump-sanders/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21aca8ee0c98e9e3/69887cb4f887dc98b0e94851/bernie-sanders.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21aca8ee0c98e9e3/69887cb4f887dc98b0e94851/bernie-sanders.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Holds New Hampshire Campaign Rallies","caption":"Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Holds New Hampshire Campaign Rallies","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4213172/polls-new-hampshire-trump-sanders/","name":"Latest Polls Show Trump and Sanders Leading New Hampshire"}}]}] ```