It was a slam-dunk for one of the candidates in the U.S. presidential election after results trickled in from a New Hampshire community. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden had a sweep in Dixville Notch, a tiny township about 30 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border.

All five residents in the township pulled the lever for the candidate from the Democratic Party.

The early balloting in New Hampshire is a historic one in the U.S. election, with midnight voting a celebration of sorts for the last 60 years, reports CNN. The same tradition holds in Dixville Notch for the February primaries, though that almost didn’t happen this year. One resident moved away, leaving the township short one person to deal with election-related obligations. An area developer saved the day by moving in, however.

The occasion would usually be met with popping champagne corks, but the pandemic curbed some of the accompanying social activity.

“Sixty years — and unfortunately, we can't celebrate it," Tom Tillotson, the township’s moderator, was quoted by regional CBS affiliate WBNS as saying.

Considered relatively safe in the blue column, the results from midnight voting in Millsfield, just 12 miles south of Dixville Notch, were less decisive. Of the 21 votes cast there, 16 of them went to incumbent President Donald Trump and five went to Biden.

New Hampshire went to U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from neighboring Vermont, in the February primary, with Biden taking fifth behind U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Calif. Trump won the Republican primary handily.

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