Results of the January 2008 caucuses As of 11:05 p.m. EDT, January 4, 2008, with 100% of the votes reported, the results were:
Candidate Votes [8] Percentage Delegates 100% of precincts reporting [8] Mike Huckabee 40,954 34.36% 17 Mitt Romney 30,021 25.19% 12 Fred Thompson 15,960 13.39% 0 John McCain 15,536 13.03% 3 Ron Paul 11,841 9.93% 2 Rudy Giuliani 4,099 3.44% 0 Duncan Hunter 506 0.42% 0 Alan Keyes 247 0.21% 0 John Cox* 10 .01% 0 Hugh Cort 5 0% 0 Tom Tancredo* 5 0% 0 Vern Wuensche 2 0% 0 Sam Brownback* 1 0% 0 Cap Fendig 1 0% 0 Total 119,188 100% 34 *Candidate had already dropped out of the race prior to caucus.
Only three candidates won majorities in the individual counties: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul. The Giuliani campaign followed an unusual strategy of focusing on larger states that vote later in the process, and had done little if any campaigning in Iowa. Tancredo had already withdrawn from the presidential race two weeks earlier and endorsed Romney, [9] but his name remained in the official list of candidates of the Iowa Republican Party.
Some 120,000 Iowa Republicans attended the 2008 caucuses, a new record. About 87,000 attended in 2000; in 2004, George W. Bush ran unopposed. [10] |
