Willkie leads New Hampshire primary slate
Dewey is second in first vote test
Concord, New Hampshire (UP) –
Complete returns from New Hampshire’s “first-in-the-nation” presidential primary showed today that six of the state’s 11 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be supporters of Wendell L. Willkie.
Two will be pledged to Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, while the remaining three will be strictly unpledged.
In the 19-man contest for seven delegate-at-large seats, unpledged pro-Willkie candidates, two, and a Dewey-pledged candidate, one.
In contests for the two district delegate seats in each of the state’s two Congressional districts, unpledged pro-Willkie candidates won two while a Dewey-pledged aspirant and an unpledged candidate won the others.
The Democrats elected a complete slate pledged to President Roosevelt for a fourth term.