New Hampshire

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In the first state in the country to open its polls, President Obama won 22 of the 32 votes cast early Tuesday morning in the village of Hart’s Location. Mitt Romney received nine votes, and Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate, collected one.

Those early results proved a bellwether: By Tuesday night, Mr. Obama had won the state’s four electoral votes despite Mr. Romney’s roots in the state, where he has a vacation home. Democrats have now won the state in five out of the last six presidential elections.

Three women — all Democrats — won races for governor and the state’s two Congressional seats, where two incumbent Republicans lost. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, beat Ovide Lamontagne, a Republican, to become governor. In the state’s Second District, Ann McLane Kuster, a lawyer and a Democrat, defeated Charles Bass, a moderate Republican who bested Ms. Kuster two years ago. Ms. Kuster raised more money in the district, which borders Democratic-leaning Vermont.

Mr. Bass held the seat from 1996 to 2006, when he was upset by Paul Hodes. When Mr. Hodes ran for the Senate in 2010, Mr. Bass reclaimed the seat, narrowly defeating Ms. Kuster.

In the First District, Representative Frank Guinta was unseated by his predecessor, Carol Shea-Porter, who lost to Mr. Guinta in 2010. This time, Mr. Guinta’s voting record in Washington spelled trouble.

The state will soon boast the nation’s first all-female Congressional delegation, which already included Senators Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, and Kelly Ayotte, a Republican.

Six out of 10 people interviewed in an Associated Press exit poll said the economy was their main concern. The unemployment rate in New Hampshire is 5.7 percent, one of the lowest in the country and more than two percentage points below the national average.