New Hampshire Town delivers some of the first presidential results of 2024

Some of the very first results from the 2024 presidential election have been released.

Dixville Notch — a small town in New Hampshire near the Canadian border — announced that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were tied in their local race just hours before polls opened in the rest of the country.

Voting began just after midnight in Dixville Notch, continuing the city's decades-long tradition of early voting that dates back to 1960, when Richard Nixon unanimously defeated John F. Kennedy.

This year, Trump and Harris received three votes each, CNN and WMUR report. The city has a total of six registered voters for the 2024 election

Dixville Notch's unique voting tradition involves all eligible voters coming together when the polls open at midnight on Election Day. After all ballots are cast privately, they are counted by hand and the results are tallied aloud.

The results will be announced quickly to the public, before many Americans have cast their votes.

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In July, Dixville Notch unanimously backed Nikki Haley against Donald Trump in the Republican primary, giving her six votes.

The once conservative city has voted more liberal in recent years due to population decline.

In 2008, they received 15 votes for Barack Obama and 6 votes for John McCain. In 2012, they gave Obama and Mitt Romney 5 votes each. In 2016, voters were divided, but Hillary Clinton ultimately won by four votes. And in 2020, the city unanimously supported Joe Biden over Trump.