Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won the midnight election in Dixville Notch, N.H., in a landslide, Fox News informed.
Biden won all five votes in the small New Hampshire township that historically tallies their results just after midnight. In doing so, he gained the first victory on Election Day.
“The last candidate to win in a landslide there was Richard Nixon in 1960,” tweeted Fox News multimedia reporter Rob DiRienzo.
Located in a remote part of northern New Hampshire, about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, Dixville Notch has been an icon of midnight voting for decades.
Through the years the media began to ritually swarm the town on election eves to watch the first tallies come in. By tradition, the election was held in the storied Ballot Room at the Balsams Resort, a hotel in the center of the town. Presidential candidates from Ronald Reagan to John McCain made sure to make the trip up to voters at the Notch.
This year was the 60th anniversary of the tradition, which started in November 1960.
Tom Tillotson, the town moderator in Dixville Notch, said last week that there would normally be a big food spread and a lot of media crammed into a small space to watch the voting. But that’s no longer possible because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Sixty years — and unfortunately, we can’t celebrate it,” he said.
The township, however, hasn’t always predicted the election’s eventual winner, as Hillary Clinton won Dixville Notch in 2016, despite Donald Trump going on to win the Electoral College.
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg won the primary there earlier this year, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won in 2016.
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