<Tr> <Td> February 26, 1996 </Td> <Td> Investment analyst Harry Browne (35.00%) </Td> <Td> Tax protester Irwin Schiff (18.33%) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> February 18, 1992 </Td> <Td> Former Alaska state representative Andre Marrou (100%) </Td> <Td> No other candidate received a vote </Td> </Tr> <P> A Vice-Presidential preference primary was also formerly held at the New Hampshire primary . New Hampshire State Senator Jack Barnes, who won the 2008 Republican contest, co-sponsored a bill in 2009 which would eliminate the Vice Presidential preference ballot . The bill passed both houses of the state legislature and took effect in 2012 . </P> <P> The only time a non-incumbent won the Vice Presidential primary and then went on to be formally nominated by his or her party was in 2004, when Democratic U.S. Senator John Edwards won as a write - in candidate . Edwards, who was running for President at the time, did not actively solicit Vice Presidential votes . </P>

New hampshire restricts its primary election to party members