[3] It is located in the northern part of the state, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of the border with the Canadian province of Quebec.

In a tradition that started in the 1960 election, all the eligible voters in Dixville Notch gather at midnight in the ballroom of The Balsams.

The results of the Dixville Notch vote in both the New Hampshire primary and the general election are traditionally broadcast around the country immediately afterwards.

However, the village does hold a number of voting records within the United States: Dixville Notch was granted the authority to conduct its own elections in 1960 and chose to open its polls at midnight.

The Dixville Notch results of the primary, and now the Hart's Location ones as well, often lead morning news programs on election day.

During every election year between 1968 and 2012, the candidate with the plurality of Dixville Notch's voters has been the eventual Republican nominee for president.

In 2000, for example, Bill Bradley won the most votes among Dixville Notch's Democratic primary voters, although Al Gore was the party's eventual nominee.

[citation needed] In 2008, Senator Barack Obama became the first Democrat to win the community's vote in a presidential election since 1968, by a margin of 15 to 6.

[18] In 2012, the Dixville Notch result delivered a tie for the first time in its history, with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney receiving five votes each.

[20] Dixville Notch received a reprieve before the primary when a fifth person, Les Otten, developer of The Balsams, agreed to move there in time for the election.

[21] When the community's five residents convened for the 2020 primary, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg received three votes as a write-in candidate.

[23][24] In 2024, presidential candidate Nikki Haley won unanimous support of all six voting-age residents over former president Donald Trump during the New Hampshire GOP primary.