--- title: Iowa Caucus Results: Hillary Clinton Beats Bernie Sanders description: Hillary Clinton has been officially declared the Democratic winner of the Iowa caucuses after a historically close matchup canonical: https://time.com/4204673/iowa-caucus-results-hillary-clinton-wins/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-02T18:38:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:41:31.691Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Declared Winner of Iowa Caucuses og:description: Bernie Sanders' campaign would like the raw vote totals to be released og:url: https://time.com/4204673/iowa-caucus-results-hillary-clinton-wins/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7591f4ca14b5aa/69887bb5524fc0e377df68e4/img_9555.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIMEPOL Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Declared Winner of Iowa Caucuses twitter:description: Bernie Sanders' campaign would like the raw vote totals to be released twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7591f4ca14b5aa/69887bb5524fc0e377df68e4/img_9555.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Finally Declared Winner of Iowa Caucuses  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 2, 2016 6:38 PM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hosts a caucus night party on Feb. 1, 2016, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hosts a caucus night party on Feb. 1, 2016, at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.Natalie Keyssar for TIME  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Feb 2, 2016 6:38 PM UTC Hillary Clinton has been officially declared the [winner of the Iowa Democratic caucuses](http://time.com/4203862/iowa-caucuses-hillary-clinton-win/) after a historically close matchup against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Clinton was awarded 700.59 state delegate equivalents, and Sanders was awarded 696.82 state delegate equivalents, the [Iowa Democratic Party said](http://iowademocrats.org/statement-from-idp-chair-on-tonights-historically-close-caucus-results/) Tuesday, after vote counting stretched through the night without the Associated Press calling the race. A total of 171,109 Democrats voted in the caucus. Jeff Weaver, Sanders’ campaign manager, told CNN the campaign was [not contesting the outcome](http://time.com/4204365/iowa-caucus-bernie-sanders-recount/) and also not admitting defeat. He said he thinks Sanders won the popular vote in Iowa. “You know it’s a very complicated, nuanced process. There’s human error and new technology that was just introduced that people have some concerns about,” Weaver said, adding that he wants the total number of votes cast for each candidate to be released to the public. “I think the people of America would love to know what the raw numbers were of who came out to support each candidate,” he said. Clinton, who had already been touting her Iowa victory while campaigning in New Hampshire, acknowledged the triumph on Twitter. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/694584472323407872) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4204673/iowa-caucus-results-hillary-clinton-wins/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4204673/iowa-caucus-results-hillary-clinton-wins/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Finally Declared Winner of Iowa Caucuses","datePublished":"2016-02-02T18:38:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:41:31.691Z","description":"Bernie Sanders' campaign would like the raw vote totals to be released","url":"https://time.com/4204673/iowa-caucus-results-hillary-clinton-wins/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7591f4ca14b5aa/69887bb5524fc0e377df68e4/img_9555.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7591f4ca14b5aa/69887bb5524fc0e377df68e4/img_9555.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIMEPOL Hillary Clinton","caption":"TIMEPOL Hillary Clinton","creditText":"Natalie Keyssar for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4204673/iowa-caucus-results-hillary-clinton-wins/","name":"Hillary Clinton Finally Declared Winner of Iowa Caucuses"}}]}] ```