--- title: New Hampshire Primary Results Start With Small Towns description: Voting in one small town took all of 30 seconds canonical: https://time.com/4213472/new-hampshire-primary-results-midnight/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-09T12:03:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:53:45.466Z article:section: Politics og:title: And the Winners of the New Hampshire Midnight Primaries Are... og:description: Voting in one small town took all of 30 seconds og:url: https://time.com/4213472/new-hampshire-primary-results-midnight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f9915088ea58b8/69887cbe0a4a226b869c84a4/first-new-hampshire-primary-voters.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jeff Stevens and other voters wait for the last few seconds to midnight to cast their votes in the U.S. Presidential primary election at the Hale House at Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: And the Winners of the New Hampshire Midnight Primaries Are... twitter:description: Voting in one small town took all of 30 seconds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f9915088ea58b8/69887cbe0a4a226b869c84a4/first-new-hampshire-primary-voters.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # And the Winners of the New Hampshire Midnight Primaries Are... by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 9, 2016 12:03 PM UTC  Jeff Stevens and other voters wait for the last few seconds to midnight to cast their votes in the U.S. Presidential primary election at the Hale House at Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch, NH on Feb. 8, 2016. Jeff Stevens and other voters wait for the last few seconds to midnight to cast their votes in the U.S. Presidential primary election at the Hale House at Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch, NH on Feb. 8, 2016.Mike Segar—Reuters by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 9, 2016 12:03 PM UTC Voters in the tiny community of Dixville Notch in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire have had their say. And the winners are: Kasich earned three votes to Donald Trump’s two. Sanders swept all four Democratic votes. That’s right — there are only nine voters in Dixville, a resort area about 20 miles from the Canadian border, and the voting took all of about 30 seconds. Kasich, who is hoping for a strong New Hampshire primary finish to give him momentum heading into the South Carolina and Nevada primaries later this month, personally called all nine voters in Dixville Notch, his campaign said… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/first-new-hampshire-primary-voters-head-polls-n514306) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4213472/new-hampshire-primary-results-midnight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4213472/new-hampshire-primary-results-midnight/"},"headline":"And the Winners of the New Hampshire Midnight Primaries Are...","datePublished":"2016-02-09T12:03:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:53:45.466Z","description":"Voting in one small town took all of 30 seconds","url":"https://time.com/4213472/new-hampshire-primary-results-midnight/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f9915088ea58b8/69887cbe0a4a226b869c84a4/first-new-hampshire-primary-voters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14f9915088ea58b8/69887cbe0a4a226b869c84a4/first-new-hampshire-primary-voters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jeff Stevens and other voters wait for the last few seconds to midnight to cast their votes in the U.S. Presidential primary election at the Hale House at Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch","caption":"Jeff Stevens and other voters wait for the last few seconds to midnight to cast their votes in the U.S. Presidential primary election at the Hale House at Balsams Hotel in Dixville Notch, NH on Feb. 8, 2016.","creditText":"Mike Segar—Reuters","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/4213472/new-hampshire-primary-results-midnight/","name":"And the Winners of the New Hampshire Midnight Primaries Are..."}}]}] ```