US elections 2012: Iowa caucus results in full

As Mitt Romney battled against Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucus, the datablog shows votes for each Iowa county and begins tracking all the 2012 US presidential votes, state by state

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hugs his wife Ann
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, hugs his wife, Ann, at his Iowa caucus rally in Des Moines, Iowa. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters

The full set of results from the Iowa caucus are in. This is our first glimpse at who the prefered presidential nominees might be.

If you are not familiar with the US election process we have a brief guide below.

The Iowa caucus was remarkable for (at least) two reasons: first for its low turnout and second because the Republican candidate race was so close.

The total votes were announced on Wednesday morning and you can relive the excitement over on our Iowa caucus results live blog.

Barack Obama easily held his position as most favoured Democratic candidate with 98.46% of the votes, while the Republican presidential candidate was hotly contested.

We have organised the Repubican votes so that, hopefully, it is easier for you to use and map yourself. This map shows the candidate with the most votes in each county of Iowa:

Source: IowaCaucus.com


You can see just how close the voting was as the winner Mitt Romney received 24.55% of all Republican votes while former Senator Rick Santorum received 24.54%. Those percentage come from 30,015 votes for Romney and 30,007 votes to Santorum.

Ron Paul of Texas ran a close third, receiving 26,219 votes, that is 21.4% of the total.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had 16,251 votes or 13.3% of all Republican votes.

The Texas governor Rick Perry received 12,604 votes or 10.3% in total while Michele Bachmann had 6,073 votes giving her 5% of the total.

The former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman has been focusing on the New Hampshire primaries only received 745 votes making up 0.6% of the total.

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A brief guide to the Iowa caucus
The US voters registered to each party have the chance to vote for their preferred US presidential candidate. The Iowa caucus is really just to show preference, it does not result in selection of a national delegate as the primaries do as explained here. The national delegate is selected later in Iowa. The Republicans and Democrats each hold their own set of caucuses.

Data summary

2012 Iowa Caucus Republican Results

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FIPS Code
County
Bachmann
Gingrich
Huntsman
Paul
Perry
Romney
Santorum

Source: IowaCaucus.com and IowaDemocrates.org
1 Adair 26 44 1 42 47 43 66
3 Adams 9 24 0 74 14 32 47
5 Allamakee 18 82 0 157 28 155 77
7 Appanoose 25 71 1 77 90 87 174
9 Audubon 17 32 0 41 31 48 54
11 Benton 66 121 5 202 168 184 290
13 Black Hawk 262 596 29 870 259 835 783
15 Boone 104 160 4 276 170 230 400
17 Bremer 57 98 14 194 105 246 215
19 Buchanan 40 77 1 66 62 78 133
21 Buena Vista 26 128 3 169 110 124 154
23 Butler 41 71 4 99 87 92 157
25 Calhoun 31 54 2 75 71 69 131
27 Carroll 32 145 2 133 85 146 168
29 Cass 32 147 2 116 66 141 170
31 Cedar 34 84 4 188 67 165 167
33 Cerro Gordo 100 235 5 304 170 408 345
35 Cherokee 20 78 0 95 63 126 155
37 Chickasaw 14 53 3 142 74 85 72
39 Clarke 42 46 1 98 62 65 51
41 Clay 40 137 4 150 75 149 165
43 Clayton 28 72 1 205 81 116 122
45 Clinton 62 149 9 295 73 437 354
47 Crawford 22 84 0 72 64 93 101
49 Dallas 192 591 15 688 504 1417 840
51 Davis 25 35 0 79 39 18 100
53 Decatur 35 51 0 81 54 79 44
55 Delaware 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
57 Des Moines 79 187 6 260 121 308 388
59 Dickinson 17 132 4 100 132 187 161
61 Dubuque 28 255 15 659 175 779 601
63 Emmet 47 27 0 38 43 42 65
65 Fayette 58 134 4 133 80 241 174
67 Floyd 34 56 1 89 31 119 182
69 Franklin 32 80 0 106 53 78 125
71 Fremont 36 41 2 33 15 59 58
73 Greene 17 74 1 73 57 99 102
75 Grundy 45 82 0 99 100 129 172
77 Guthrie 40 70 1 112 106 108 140
79 Hamilton 51 138 6 164 73 144 184
81 Hancock 36 89 7 126 67 55 157
83 Hardin 46 96 4 156 98 168 258
85 Harrison 37 98 2 110 69 123 205
87 Henry 43 97 0 147 55 170 227
89 Howard 40 26 0 33 16 51 108
91 Humboldt 36 39 0 78 49 64 160
93 Ida 12 48 1 47 49 46 105
95 Iowa 58 81 1 151 46 159 197
97 Jackson 18 90 2 163 43 139 92
99 Jasper 122 171 8 300 162 285 576
101 Jefferson 32 88 7 408 48 101 156
103 Johnson 121 476 52 1445 247 1604 746
105 Jones 48 52 1 167 76 200 183
107 Keokuk 37 60 0 89 47 80 104
109 Kossuth 42 98 3 87 60 106 192
111 Lee 16 140 5 219 51 169 195
113 Linn 411 1066 64 2072 785 2520 1818
115 Louisa 16 73 0 87 41 67 87
117 Lucas 22 29 1 48 95 80 120
119 Lyon 23 42 1 57 52 36 329
121 Madison 54 144 5 221 154 170 223
123 Mahaska 138 170 2 241 209 159 494
125 Marion 117 159 5 326 333 228 567
127 Marshall 97 299 7 315 235 365 373
129 Mills 29 79 2 84 44 132 163
131 Mitchell 16 86 3 96 17 44 68
133 Monona 5 53 1 43 33 96 112
135 Monroe 16 46 1 43 47 28 84
137 Montgomery 13 39 0 52 56 95 106
139 Muscatine 49 171 12 255 129 361 243
141 O'Brien 29 57 3 105 73 56 265
143 Osceola 20 29 2 78 17 48 81
145 Page 41 104 5 94 50 129 157
147 Palo Alto 12 52 1 53 38 48 70
149 Plymouth 42 161 2 195 140 369 349
151 Pocahontas 21 48 0 85 74 55 109
153 Polk 900 2797 171 4948 2070 6240 4735
155 Pottawattamie 115 457 12 529 220 719 666
157 Poweshiek 42 113 8 197 77 116 155
159 Ringgold 5 35 1 23 28 26 62
161 Sac 25 69 1 87 32 105 134
163 Scott 166 834 55 1168 296 2005 1444
165 Shelby 85 39 0 108 46 63 153
167 Sioux 82 160 9 279 297 299 943
169 Story 139 542 51 1088 439 1098 833
171 Tama 55 91 1 126 102 134 148
173 Taylor 7 25 0 64 82 44 45
175 Union 54 42 4 78 105 75 98
177 Van Buren 33 46 1 112 24 48 93
179 Wapello 74 152 3 196 119 103 199
181 Warren 150 335 23 596 308 479 630
183 Washington 51 128 0 277 113 168 205
185 Wayne 23 22 2 45 61 37 72
187 Webster 62 162 5 203 140 287 311
189 Winnebago 42 68 6 55 22 69 170
191 Winneshiek 19 169 8 174 34 149 136
193 Woodbury 80 406 19 529 308 952 1125
195 Worth 18 30 3 31 26 34 46
197 Wright 32 59 0 69 62 83 92
  Statewide Total 6073 16251 745 26219 12604 30015 30007

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  • nauseausa

    5 January 2012 4:33PM

    Articles like this need to present the total number of voting eligible persons in the State, the total registered Republicans in the State, and then report the turn out of small subset of these Reblicans who actually vote. Such data will clearly show how totally unrepresentative the actual vote is to the population of Iowa, and its Republicans.

    Iowa has three essential functions for the election process: [1] it kicks off the election season for the media, [2] it guarantees that a Conservatives will set the agenda for the debates to come - thus allowing the Democrat to run to the right of their actual constituency, and [3] it formally announces the "money season" has opened for politicians of both parties - politicians put themselves on the market to be bought and sold by the ruling elites.

    The last thing that America needs is a pretty boy venture capitalist running out of vanity for the highest office in the land.

  • LisaJEvans

    5 January 2012 5:52PM

    @nauseausa thank you for your comment and good suggestion. I did include a link to data showing the turn out in the third paragraph of this piece, but you are right, it would be good to fully follow through what this means by showing turn out relative to those elligable to vote.

  • MichaelRivero

    7 January 2012 7:18PM

    This report assumes that the counts at the individual caucuses were accurate, and as the affidavit just filed by an Iowa vote counter demonstrates, this is not necessarily true. A full manual recount of all ballots is needed now.

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