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2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses (view source)
Revision as of 02:32, February 7, 2020
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Further complicating matters was the fact that, while Buttigieg maintained a slight lead in that he had secured more delegates for the later conventions, Sanders had more actual votes. This fueled suspicion that the Democratic party leadership, doubting Sanders' ability to win a general election, had coordinated with the other campaigns to deny him delegates by diverting a few to those who were clearly losing. Additionally, it became clear that even the released numbers did not match those initially reported by many precincts, or in some cases even comply with the mathematical rules of the caucuses.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/upshot/iowa-caucuses-errors-results.html</ref> On Thursday, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez made a statement via [[Twitter]], calling on Iowa party officials to begin a recanvass of the caucus votes, citing the problems in "the implementation of the delegate selection plan" and the need to "assure public confidence in the results."<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/02/06/iowa-caucus-results-pete-buttigieg-bernie-sanders-close-delegate-race/4675289002/</ref>
Further complicating matters was the fact that, while Buttigieg maintained a slight lead in that he had secured more delegates for the later conventions, Sanders had more actual votes. This fueled suspicion that the Democratic party leadership, doubting Sanders' ability to win a general election, had coordinated with the other campaigns to deny him delegates by diverting a few to those who were clearly losing. Additionally, it became clear that even the released numbers did not match those initially reported by many precincts, or in some cases even comply with the mathematical rules of the caucuses.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/upshot/iowa-caucuses-errors-results.html</ref> On Thursday, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez made a statement via [[Twitter]], calling on Iowa party officials to begin a recanvass of the caucus votes, citing the problems in "the implementation of the delegate selection plan" and the need to "assure public confidence in the results."<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/02/06/iowa-caucus-results-pete-buttigieg-bernie-sanders-close-delegate-race/4675289002/</ref>
Full results were finally reported on the evening of Thursday, February 6. They showed a very narrow win for Buttigieg, with 26.198% of delegates selected for the later conventions, as compared to 26.128% for Sanders. Warren and Biden held their positions, with 17.98% and 15.85%, respectively. Given the aforementioned problems in reporting, it was not immediately clear if these would stand as final results or if they would be contested.<ref>https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/02/06/iowa-caucus-who-won-buttigieg-sanders-democrats-electon-2020/4667267002/</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Candidate !! Votes received !! Vote percentage !! Delegates received !! Delegate percentage
|-
| Pete Buttigieg || 43,195 || 25.0% || 564 || 26.20%
|-
| Bernie Sanders || 45,826 || 26.6% || 562 || 26.13%
|-
| Elizabeth Warren || 34,771 || 20.2% || 387 || 17.98%
|-
| Joe Biden || 23,691 || 13.7% || 341 || 15.85%
|-
| Amy Klobuchar || 21,181 || 12.3% || 264 || 12.27%
|-
| Andrew Yang || 1,780 || 1.0% || 22 || 1.03%
|-
| Tom Steyer || 413 || 0.2% || 7 || 0.3%
|-
| Uncommitted || 1,418 || 0.8% || 4 || 0.2%
|-
| Other || 205 || 0.1% || 1 || 0.0%
|-
| Michael Bloomberg || 20 || 0.0% || 0 || 0.0%
|-
| Michael Bennet || 4 || 0.0% || 0 || 0.0%
|-
| John Delaney || 0 || 0.0% || 0 || 0.0%
|-
| Tulsi Gabbard || 17 || 0.0% || 0 || 0.0%
|-
| Deval Patrick || 0 || 0.0% || 0 || 0.0%
|}
There was no clear demographic or regional distribution of votes cast. Sanders won Polk County, the location of state capital Des Moines, as well as Linn County, home to the state's second-largest city, Cedar Rapids; but Warren won Johnson County, home to the University of Iowa.<ref>https://features.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/iowa-caucuses-results-alignment/</ref>
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