Iowa results

What are the Iowa Caucuses?

Residents in each of Iowa's 1,774 precincts meet in caucuses and elect delegates to the 99 county conventions. These delegates choose delegates for the Congressional District Convention and the State Convention, which eventually choose the delegates for the presidential nomination. Each party holds its own caucuses, and participants must be registered with the corresponding party.

President Obama is a shoe-in for the Democratic nomination, so this site focuses on the 2012 Republican caucuses.

Latest news

• Caucus Confusion: A Recurring Headache For GOP

  In the GOP's first contest in Iowa, results from more than 100 caucuses were incorrectly counted, meaning what seemed do be an eight-vote election-night win for Romney was later retabulated as a 34-vote victory for Rick Santorum.

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• Ron Paul says he did the best of the GOP candidates in an Iowa poll matchup with Obama

  Paul was referring to a Des Moines Register poll, the results of which the newspaper wrote about on its website Feb. 19, 2012. Selzer & Co., a West Des Moines firm, conducted the telephone survey of 800 Iowans Feb. 12-15, 2012. As part of the poll, 611 likely voters were asked to indicate who they would vote for in matchups between Obama and each of the four major Republican candidates.

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• Final Iowa Results: Santorum Tops Romney, but We’ll Never Know Who Won

  The Republican Party of Iowa announced Thursday morning that the final, certified count shows Santorum winning by 34 votes. But eight precincts’ results were not available for certification, the party announced, telling the Des Moines Register that it will never be recovered.

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• Iowa Vote Doesn't Resolve GOP Search For Identity

  Self-identified tea party supporters made up 64 percent of GOP Iowa caucus-goers. Santorum was backed by 29 percent of them, while Romney and libertarian-leaning Rep. Ron Paul of Texas took 19 percent each. Gingrich got 15 percent and Perry 11 percent.

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  New Hampshire’s primary scene is smaller, but it’s still a big stage

  The biggest question Wednesday was whether Newt Gingrich, wounded and furious after seeing his lead in Iowa obliterated by negative ads, would go after Mitt Romney with fangs bared. He essentially promised as much Tuesday night, when, seething after his fourth-place finish in the caucuses, he congratulated Rick Santorum but did not mention Romney by name.

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• A Leader in Iowa, Santorum Still Has Trouble Online

  In what has been a long-running burden for Rick Santorum, his online identity has been pranked – given a meaning involving bodily fluids, meant to ridicule him for his strong criticism of same-sex marriage.

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  In New Hampshire, Jon Huntsman hopes for big night

  Jon Huntsman woke up the morning after the Iowa caucuses hoping to cast himself as the Rick Santorum of New Hampshire. The former Utah governor has been working the state almost nonstop since launching his campaign over the summer, doing the kind of intense retail campaigning none of his rivals have done here — and that none other than Santorum did in Iowa ahead of a finish that left him in a virtual tie with front-runner Mitt Romney.

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  Can Jon Huntsman become the Rick Santorum of New Hampshire?

  Could Jon Huntsman become the new Rick Santorum? Huntsman, who skipped the Iowa caucuses to focus exclusively on the New Hampshire primary, made that case for himself here Wednesday, arguing that after campaigning heavily in the Granite State for months he will be able to suddenly pick up steam ahead of the balloting next Tuesday.

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  Why evangelicals coalesced around Rick Santorum

  Santorum's face time was reflected in his voters' support. Of all the candidates, a greater proportion of his voters - 40 percent - cited strong moral character as the most important candidate quality in deciding for whom to vote.

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  Iowa caucus results: Angry Newt Gingrich bolts after bad finish

  Newt Gingrich couldn’t get out of Iowa any faster unless he'd left before the caucuses started. After an embarrassing fourth-place finish — a dramatic fall for a candidate who enjoyed front-runner status just two weeks ago — Gingrich gave an angry speech and his demoralized campaign jetted out of Des Moines on a charter flight before the clock even struck midnight in Iowa.

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