Statewide Iowa — (RI) — At 4 p.m. Tuesday the Iowa Democratic Party finally started releasing results from last night’s Iowa Caucuses.
The data dump from 62 percent of precincts shows Pete Buttigieg in first place, with nearly 27 percent of DELEGATES in those precincts. Bernie Sanders is close behind with just over 25 percent. Elizabeth Warren was in third and Joe Biden was in fourth. Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price spoke in public just before the results were posted on the party’s website.
There was a glitch in the smart phone app developed to collect the Caucus Night delegate totals, along with raw votes for each candidate.
Buttigieg was campaigning in New Hampshire when the first batch of numbers were released.
Bernie Sander’s senior adviser says the data shows Sanders seems to be winning the “popular vote” in Iowa’s Caucuses. For the first time Iowa Democrats collected raw vote totals based on how many people supported each candidate at the beginning and the end of Caucus Night. It’s not clear when ALL the results will be confirmed and released by the party.
Price was asked if he was resigning.
In 2012, Iowa Republican Party chairman Matt Strawn resigned under pressure. He had announced on Caucus Night that Mitt Romney won by eight votes. A few days later after a canvas of all precincts, Rick Santorum finished first — by a 12-vote margin.
