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1972
New Hampshire Republican presidential primary
County results
Municipality results
The 1972 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on March 7, 1972, in
New Hampshire as one of the
Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the
1972 United States presidential election . Incumbent
President
Richard Nixon faced his first major test in New Hampshire against two minor challengers: liberal anti-Vietnam war candidate
Pete McCloskey of
California and conservative
John Ashbrook of
Ohio , who opposed Nixon's
détente policies towards
China and the
Soviet Union . Nixon won the Granite State in a landslide, resulting in the withdrawal of McCloskey from the primaries (he promised to do so if he failed to reach >20% of the vote) and a clear path for the incumbent President to receive the Republican nomination.
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