The 2024 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. New Hampshire voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College.
A rural New England state with a libertarian streak dominated by moderate voters, New Hampshire had backed Republicans in most presidential elections since the party's formation up until 1988, except for Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916; Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, 1940 and 1944; and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. Since the early 1990s, however, the state has begun to lean toward the Democrats at the federal level, with Democrats carrying the state by single digits in every presidential election since 1992 with the exception of George W. Bush's narrow victory in 2000.
New Hampshire was considered a potential battleground state due to the closeness of the 2016 election and a concurrent gubernatorial election that was expected to be competitive. However, the state has shown a much more pronounced Democratic lean at the federal level in recent years, as New Hampshire's congressional delegation, which is currently all Democrats, won reelection by comfortable margins in the 2022 House and Senate elections in spite of the national Republican advantage that year. As such, most news organizations generally considered the state to be leaning toward Kamala Harris in 2024 by a similar margin as Joe Biden in 2020.
However, on election night, New Hampshire was seriously contested by both candidates, and was one of the last states called in favor of Kamala Harris.[1] Harris won the state by about 2.8%, a significantly lower margin than Biden in 2020, though better than Hillary Clinton in 2016. Of all the states Harris won, New Hampshire ended up being her worst performance. New Hampshire had the closest presidental race out of any state in terms of the margin of raw votes, although the state closest in difference of percentage was Wisconsin.
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