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AP Photo Dixville Notch results: Sanders, Kasich lead the charge

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Ohio Gov. John Kasich won the most Republican votes in Dixville Notch early Tuesday morning, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won all the Democratic votes.

Kasich came away with three while business mogul Donald Trump won two. On the Democratic side, Sanders received four.

The results are a welcome sign for Kasich, whose campaign said he actively reached out to all nine voters who voted early Tuesday near the Canadian border in the first balloting of the New Hampshire primary.

The small groups of voters in the communities of Dixville Notch, Hart's Location, and Millsfield all participated today in the idealized New Hampshire tradition of voting en masse at midnight when polls open. The votes of those communities — particularly Dixville Notch — are given outsize importance as predictors of who will go on to larger victories in the presidential race.

Overall on Tuesday, the three communities cast 65 votes, with 17 going to Sanders.

Kasich was also the top Republican vote-getter in Hart's Location, with five out of 14, followed by Trump with four and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with two. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio each got on the board with a vote each.

For the Democrats, Sanders took 12, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seven and Connecticut resident Mark Stewart Greenstein (also known as Mark Stewart) received two votes in Hart's Location.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won Millsfield with nine of 18 Republican votes, distantly followed by Trump at three. In a Tuesday afternoon with the conservative Boston radio show "The Kuhner Report," Cruz said the results of New Hampshire were "very hard to predict" but he added that is nine votes were "an encouraging early sign."

Kasich, Christie, Bush, Rubio and Carly Fiorina each got one vote there; Sen. Rand Paul also got one vote in Millsfield even though he dropped out of the presidential race last week. On the Democratic side, Clinton got two votes and Sanders added one vote.

Dixville Notch, in particular, gets significant attention for such a small community (its population is 12 people now) in picking the eventual Democratic and Republican primary winners. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama won the majority of Dixville Notch voters (claiming seven) to John Edwards' two and Bill Richardson's one. That same year, Sen. John McCain won the Republican community with four votes, while Mitt Romney got two and Rudy Giuliani got one.

In 2012, Obama handily won the Democratic vote, but Republican voters split between Romney and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, each of whom got two votes. Newt Gingrich garnered one.

Eliza Collins contributed to this report.