The village of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, which has six residents, was the first in the country to traditionally begin and end voting in the presidential election. The result reflects the fierce competition between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on a national scale. Both candidates received the same number of votes.
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All six residents cast their votes just after midnight local time (6 am Polish time) and the results were announced immediately.
Voters in Dixville Notch — four of them registered as Republicans and two of them registered as independent voters — were evenly split between the presidential candidates, although five of them voted for the Republican candidate for governor Kelly Ayotte.
In 2020, all five electors in the city—only one Republican among them at the time—voted for Joe Biden.
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Night elections
The tradition of voting after midnight in New Hampshire dates back to 1948, when it began in Hart, a mountain town of less than 70 residents. Dixville Notch, where night voting has been held since 1960, has an official population of six, and another town that once participated in the tradition, Millfield, has 25.
This year, such an election was held only in Dixville Notch.
In most other states, polling stations open at 7 a.m. local time (1 p.m. in Poland). Voting begins one hour earlier in the first states on the east coast: Maine, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Connecticut. In most states, polling stations will be open until 7 or 8 p.m. local time, while the last polls in the country in Alaska and Hawaii will close at 1 a.m. local time.
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