Iowa Democratic Party releases caucus results; Local results similar to statewide for front-runner

The Iowa Democratic Party has released its results from its 2024 Democratic Caucus held January 15 and utilizing a month-long Presidential Preference Cards process as a candidate selection tool this year. Those overall results for the state of Iowa were closely mirrored by Allamakee County selection for Democratic front-runner Joe Biden, both of those results hovering around 90% of selections made.

In the state of Iowa, Biden received 11,083 of the 12,207 preference card choices, a 90.79% selection out of state of Iowa Democrats casting a preference card. Among the 55 preference cards cast in Allamakee County, Biden was selected on 49 of them for an 89.09% selection result.

Two other candidates, State of Minnesota U.S. Representative Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson, were also listed among selections on this year’s Presidential Preference Cards, with Phillips receiving 362 choices (2.97%) statewide and Williamson garnering 268 (2.19%). The largest non-Biden choice from the preference cards this year was the “Uncommitted” selection, which emerged with 480 (3.93%) preference card tallies from across the state of Iowa.

Although the Biden selection was similar, percentage-wise, to statewide results among Allamakee County Democrats in the preference card process, the remaining selections yielded different results. Although Phillips led the other two candidate selections statewide, there were no preference cards cast for him by Allamakee County Democrats. The remaining six selections cast by Allamakee County voters were evenly split between Williamson and the “Uncommitted” choice at three each (5.45%).