New Hampshire primary 2024: live results tracker

New Hampshire held the first presidential primary of the 2024 election season on Tuesday, culminating in another victory for Donald Trump. Despite strong polling and heavy investment in the state, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley lost to Trump in the Republican primary.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden won the Democratic primary on Tuesday through write-in ballots, despite not officially running in the state because of a party decision. Long-shot candidates Dean Phillips, a congressman from Minnesota, and Marianne Williamson, who also ran in 2020, trailed behind.

Note: the tracker will show write-in results later than the other votes.

The key candidates dueling it out in New Hampshire:

Donald Trump

The former US president’s campaign to retake the White House and once again grab his party’s nomination got off to a slow start that was widely mocked. But after a decisive win in Iowa his campaign has steadily moved into a position of dominance and never looked likely to be dislodged from that.

Trump declined to attend any of the Republican debates, has used his court appearances and many legal woes as a rallying cry to mobilize his base, and has run a surprisingly well-organized campaign. His extremist rhetoric, especially around his plans for a second term and the targeting of his political enemies, has sparked widespread fears over the threat to American democracy that his candidacy represents.

His political style during the campaign has not shifted from his previous runs in 2016 and 2020 and, if anything, has become more extreme. Many see this as a result of his political and legal fates becoming entwined with a return to the Oval Office being seen as Trump’s best chance of nixing his legal problems.

Nikki Haley

The former