Update: US Presidential primaries
4 February 2016 – Iowa caucuses aftermath
The primary elections and caucuses commenced on Monday 1 February with the Iowa caucuses. The next event is the New Hampshire primary election on 8 February.
Three Republican candidates – Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum – and one Democratic candidate – Martin O’Malley – have withdrawn from the race in the wake of the Iowa results.
Latest delegate counts (including proportions of total party convention delegates) are set out below.
These tallies below include the support of elected delegates that have been confirmed by public endorsements.
REPUBLICAN Party nominee:
Senator Marco Rubio (image: floridapolitics.com, via wikipedia)
| Candidate |
national votes |
convention delegates |
qualified* |
| Senator Marco Rubio |
43,165 |
40 – 1.4% |
✗ |
| Jeb Bush |
5,238 |
32 – 1.2% |
✗ |
| Senator Ted Cruz |
51,666 |
27 – 1.0% |
✗ |
| Governor John Kasich |
3,474 |
9 – 0.3% |
✗ |
| Governor Chris Christie |
3,284 |
9 – 0.3% |
✗ |
| Donald Trump |
45,427 |
7 – 0.3% |
✗ |
| Carly Fiorina |
3,485 |
4 – 0.1% |
✗ |
| Ben Carson |
17,395 |
3 – 0.1% |
✗ |
| Governor Jim Gilmour |
112 |
0 |
✗ |
| yet to be selected |
2,231 – 80.5% |
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| uncommitted official delegates |
404 – 18.5% |
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| Total delegates |
2,767 |
|
(*A Republican candidate needs to accumulate 8 state delegation majorities to be eligible to put their name forward at the party Convention)
Withdrawals: Mike Huckabee (1 February), Rand Paul (3 February), Rick Santorum (4 February)
DEMOCRATIC Party nominee:
Hillary Clinton
| Candidate |
national votes |
convention delegates |
| Hillary Clinton |
85,317* |
221 – 4.6% |
| Senator Bernie Sanders |
84,858* |
24 – 0.5% |
| yet to be selected |
4,008– 84.1% |
|
| uncommitted official delegates |
508 – 10.7% |
|
| Total delegates |
4,764 |
(* The Iowa vote totals are only an extrapolation from the announced total number of Democratic caucus participants (171,157) and the proportions of final tallies of support; this is at best an estimate, not a precise account of the number of supporting voters.)
Withdrawals: Martin O’Malley (1 February)
Original Preview article (19 January 2016)
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