Question

Why does New Hampshire hold its primary first?

Answer 1

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New Hampshire has hold the first in the nation primary since 1920. But only in the last decades of the 20th century has it taken on such importance that on Tuesday the state expects to play host to thousands of television and print journalists from around America and the world. Manchester, the largest city, will be so crowded that hotel rooms are going for as high as 800 a night and it will be impossible to get a taxi or a table at a restaurant.

Creating a popular presidential primary was one of those reform ideas that took a while to catch on. Until 1948, the New Hampshire primary, like most of the small number of other primaries in the country, listed only the names of locals who wanted to be delegates to the convention on the ballot. But in 1948, Richard F. Upton, speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives decided to make the primary “more interesting and meaningful so there would be a greater turnout at the polls.” He did this by passing a law allowing citizens to vote directly for the presidential candidates.