Buttigieg declared Iowa winner after technical glitches delay result

Updated: 2020-02-07 10:10

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Indiana mayor speaks during s campaign event in Laconia, New Hampshire, US, February 4, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

WASHINGTON/MANCHESTER, N.H. - Pete Buttigieg narrowly won Iowa's Democratic presidential caucuses on Thursday after a long delay in releasing the results, reshaping the 2020 race and raising doubts about the future of one-time front-runner Joe Biden, who finished a disappointing fourth.

In the first contest in the race to pick a challenger to Republican President Donald Trump for the November election, the moderate 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, edged out progressive Senator Bernie Sanders 26.2% to 26.1%, the Iowa Democratic Party said.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren finished third with 18% of state-delegate equivalents, the data traditionally used to determine the winner, while Biden limped to a disappointing fourth with 15.8%. US Senator Amy Klobuchar finished fifth with 12.3%.

Reuters

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