DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential
race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.
Tanner Tillotson, front center, of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, wins the
honor of first voter.
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People in the village in New Hampshire's northeast corner voted just after
midnight Tuesday.
It was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned Democratic in an
election.
Obama's rival, Republican John McCain, won 6 votes.
A full 100 percent of registered voters in the village cast ballots. And the
votes didn't take long to tally.
The town, home to around 75 residents, has opened its polls shortly after
midnight each Election Day since 1960, drawing national media attention for
being the first place in the country to make its presidential preferences known.
However, since 1996, another small New Hampshire town -- Hart's Location --
reinstated its practice from the 1940s and also began opening its polls at
midnight.
The result in Dixville Notch is hardly a reliable bellwether for the eventual
winner of the White House -- or even the result statewide.
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While New Hampshire is a perennial swing state, with 4 Electoral College votes
at stake, Dixville Notch consistently leans Republican. The last Democrat it
picked was Hubert Humphrey over Richard Nixon in 1968.
President Bush won the town in a landslide in the past two elections: He
captured 73 percent of the vote in 2004 (19 residents picked Bush while six
preferred Sen. John Kerry), and secured 80 percent of the vote in 2000 (21
votes for Bush, five votes for Al Gore.)
But villagers expected the results to be close this year given Democrats now
outnumber Republicans there.
The town picked both John McCain and Barack Obama for the New Hampshire
Democratic and Republican primaries in January. McCain ultimately won the state
of New Hampshire, while Sen. Hillary Clinton upset Obama there.
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