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A trio of small towns in a remote corner of New Hampshire cast the first election day ballots for US president early Tuesday, with Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton 32 to 25 in the overall count.
The three communities’ small handful of residents voted at the stroke of midnight, in an quadrennial election ritual that goes back to the first half of the 20th century.
Members of the media far outnumbered the eight eligible voters in Dixville Notch, nestled in New Hampshire’s Great North Woods about 30 kilometres from Canada.
Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee, beat Republican Trump four votes to two in Dixville Notch. She also scored a 17 to 14 victory in Hart’s Location, a town with a population of about 40 people.
But the real estate mogul trounced Clinton 16 votes to four in Millsfield, a few kilometers south of Dixville Notch.
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