Also, only 51% of voters in this primary were Republican. the rest were independent.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-new-hampshire-record/2024/01/24/id/1150797/
QuoteDisplay MoreWith his victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump set a record for most votes received in the state's presidential primary.
The previous record was held by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who received 152,000 votes in the state's 2016 race for the Democrat nomination, according to a post on Medium from that election, which quoted records from the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office.
Sanders lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 race to Trump.
As of Wednesday morning, The New York Times reported that 163,713 were cast for Trump in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
Before Trump's victory, the top vote-getters were Sanders, along with:
2000: John McCain: 115,490
2008: Hillary Clinton: 112,404
2016: Donald Trump: 100,406
2012: Mitt Romney: 95,669
Trump had held the record for the most votes cast for a Republican candidate for the presidency, according to records from the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office:
https://www.newsmax.com/us/new-hampshire-primary-gop/2024/01/24/id/1150748/
QuoteDisplay MoreExit Poll: Half of N.H. GOP Primary Voters Weren't Republican
Wednesday, 24 January 2024 06:53 AM EST
Some 51% percent of voters in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary contest considered themselves Republicans, down from 55% in the party's 2016 contest, according to an exit poll conducted Tuesday by Edison Research.
New Hampshire is a semi-open primary, allowing "undeclared" registered voters to vote in either primary, giving independents a say in the Republican presidential nominating contest.
Roughly two-thirds of undeclared independents broke for runner-up Nikki Haley on Tuesday night, according to CNN's exit poll analysis.
With responses from 2,192 voters in the Republican contest:
43% said they usually considered themselves as independents, largely unchanged from 42% in 2016.
6% said they usually think of themselves as Democrats, compared to 3% in the 2016 GOP primary.
34% said they consider themselves moderate or liberal, compared to 29% in 2016 primary.
48% of voters had a college degree, compared to 53% in 2016.
54% of voters said that if former President Donald Trump were convicted of a crime, he would still be fit for the presidency; 42% said he would not be fit for the office if convicted.
51% said they think Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 presidential election.
19% said they decided who to vote for in the previous few days.
Whites who consider themselves evangelical or born-again Christians made up 20% of voters, compared to 23% in 2016.
75% said the condition of the U.S. economy is not so good or poor, while 24% said it is excellent or good.
57% said they expect the next generation of Americans to be worse off, compared 33% in 2016.
37% of voters said the economy mattered most when deciding how they would vote in the contest, compared to 31% who said immigration mattered most. 12% cited abortion policy and 14% said foreign policy.
