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For the most recent primaries, see 2024 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary and 2024 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.
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Saint Anselm College Quad with the "Fox-Box", from which the Fox News network reported live during the 2004 and 2008 New Hampshire primaryA historical marker in Concord on the significance of the New Hampshire primaryThe Balsams Grand Resort Hotel in Dixville Notch, one of the sites of the first "midnight vote" in the New Hampshire primary
The New Hampshire presidential primary is the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections and the second party contest, the first being the Iowa caucuses, held in the United States every four years as part of the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections to be held in November. Although only a few delegates are chosen in the New Hampshire primary, its real importance comes from the massive media coverage it receives, along with the first caucus in Iowa.
Spurred by the events of the 1968 election, reforms that began with the 1972 election elevated the two states' importance to the overall election,[1] and began to receive as much media attention as all of the other state contests combined.[2] An upset victory by an underdog candidate, or a weak showing by a front-runner can change the course of the primaries, as happened in 1952, 1968, and 2008 for the Democrats, and in 1980 for the Republicans.
Since 1952, the primary has been a major testing ground for candidates for both the Republican and Democratic nominations. Candidates who do poorly frequently drop out, while lesser-known, underfunded candidates who excel in New Hampshire can become serious contenders, garnering large amounts of media attention and campaign funding.
The New Hampshire primary is a semi-open primary: unaffiliated voters (those registered without party affiliation) may vote in either party's primary. Voters registered with one party cannot "cross vote" to vote in another party's primary.
^"Nominations & Conventions: Current Practices: Iowa and New Hampshire". U.S. Political Conventions & Campaigns. Northeastern University. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
^Richard M. Perloff, Political Communication: Politics, Press, and Public in America (1998) p. 294
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