Pete Buttigieg holds early lead in Iowa caucuses after chaos over results
Iowa Democratic party announces partial results with former South Bend mayor trailed closely by Bernie Sanders
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Pete Buttigieg, the previously little-known former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, held a narrow lead in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday night, according to a partial release of a majority of the results by the state Democratic party a day after an embarrassing organizational breakdown that marred the biggest night of the election year so far.
With 62% of the precincts reporting from all of Iowa’s 99 counties, Buttigieg held 26.9% of the state’s delegate count, trailed closely by the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders with 25.1%, the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren with 18.3% and the former vice-president Joe Biden falling well behind with 15.6%. Sanders, meanwhile, had so far earned the largest share of total votes cast.