Trump breaks record for highest number of votes in New Hampshire primary

With 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:

• 2016: Donald Trump: 100,406
• 2012: Mitt Romney: 95,669
• 2008: John McCain: 88,713
• 2004: George Bush: 53,962
• 2000: John McCain: 115,490
• 1996: Pat Buchanan: 56,874
• 1992: George H. W. Bush: 92,271
• 1988: George H. W. Bush: 59,290
• 1984: Ronald Reagan: 65,033
• 1980: Ronald Reagan: 72,886
• 1976: Gerald Ford: 55,156
• 1972: Richard Nixon: 79,239
• 1968: Richard Nixon: 80,666
• 1964: Henry Cabot Lodge: 33,007
• 1960: Ricard Nixon: 65,204
• 1956 Dwight Eisenhower: 56,464
• 1952 Dwight Eisenhower: 46,661