New Hampshire primary, 2008
Overview
 
The New Hampshire primary of 2008 was held on January 8, 2008 to determine the allocation of New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

's delegate
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s to the national presidential nominating conventions
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, to be held later in the year. As one of the first electoral events in the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign
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 (having been preceded by the Iowa caucuses), it provides an early indication of the likely party nominees for the United States presidential election of 2008
United States presidential election, 2008
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...

.

Featuring contested races in both major parties, it drew a record 529,542 votes, breaking the previous record by more than 25 percent.
Following the 2004 presidential election, some elements in the Democratic Party
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 proposed new primary calendars that would end the New Hampshire primary
New Hampshire primary
The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide political party primary elections held in the United States every four years , as part of the process of choosing the Democratic and Republican nominees for the presidential elections to be held the subsequent November.Although only a...

's first-in-the-nation status.
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