The Iowa Democrats released a new delegate count, but The AP hasn’t called the race and the Sanders team says it will request a recanvass. Read more ›

They’re still not done counting in Iowa. The state party says it will re-examine 95 precincts after receiving evidence of inconsistencies. Read more ›

Buttigieg has taken 13 pledged delegates out of Iowa, and Sanders has won 12, according to AP. But there’s one left to be allocated. Read more ›

The Associated Press “is unable to declare a winner,” it now says. We could know the winner of New Hampshire before we know the winner of Iowa.

After DNC chair calls for a “recanvass” in Iowa, the Iowa Democratic Party chair says they’ll conduct an audit if a campaign requests it. Read more ›

Sanders declares a “very strong victory” based on the “popular initial vote.” Buttigieg has declared victory as well. Read more in our live updates ›

After the delays and errors in caucus counting, DNC chairman Tom Perez says “enough is enough” and calls for a “recanvass”of the results. Read more ›

In bilingual Spanish caucuses, Sanders swept up huge support. Turnout was in hundreds, not thousands, but may prove to be the crucial boost he bet on ›

The Sanders push to organize these new “satellite caucuses” is paying off. They pushed for caucuses in mosques, heavily Latino areas and universities ›

The margin between Buttigieg and Sanders is now one-tenth of a percentage point. Before this update, the margin had been seven-tenths of a point.

A new batch of results from the Iowa Democrats has almost eliminated Pete Buttigieg’s narrow lead over Bernie Sanders in state delegate equivalents.

AP: “There remain too many SDEs left to be counted to declare a winner, including an unknown number of SDEs to be won at the new satellite caucus sites.”

New results! Now in from 96% of precincts. Buttigieg still narrowly leads Sanders in state delegate equivalents. AP still says it’s too early to call.

Once again, with the latest set of results in from the Iowa Democratic Party, The Associated Press says “the race remains too early to call.”

Biden says Iowa was a “gut punch.” Warren is staying the course. They’re seeking a revival with two very different strategies ›

What looks like a 4th place finish is a damaging blow for Joe Biden’s campaign. What went wrong for Biden in Iowa? Here’s our behind-the-scenes look ›

The Iowa Dems released another batch of results tonight. They do this after handwritten worksheets are checked against data in the party’s computers.

The Associated Press says it has reviewed the updated results and still considers the race too early to call.

Pete Buttigieg is on track to win the Iowa caucuses, according to our estimates, which give him a better than 95 percent probability ›

For the second time today, the Iowa Democratic Party has released more results from Monday’s presidential caucuses. Pete Buttigieg retains his lead.

It increasingly looks like turnout numbers won’t be as high as many party and campaign officials projected, and may be more in line with 2016.

Pete Buttigieg now has an 86% chance to win the most state delegate equivalents (the metric we use to call a winner), according to our forecast model ›

Polk County Dem Chair Sean Bagniewski says he delivered all of Polk’s results to party HQ on Tuesday and doesn’t know why they haven’t been counted.

The precincts left to report results are scattered throughout the state, in 87 of Iowa’s 99 counties. Many are in Polk County, the state’s largest.

Pete Buttigieg has retained his narrow lead through 3 batches of results released by the state party. The positions of the top 5 haven’t changed much.

The Iowa Democratic Party has released more results from Monday’s caucuses. 75% of the 1,600+ precincts now reporting. Late Tuesday night it was 71%.

Buttigieg now at an 81% chance to win the most state delegate equivalents, according to our live forecasting model ›

In Polk County — the biggest county in Iowa — Sanders and Buttigieg are exactly tied in state delegate equivalents. Both have roughly double Biden’s.

The Associated Press said late Tuesday that the Iowa race is still too early to call.

The candidates’ percentages remain virtually unchanged from results released earlier in the day. 71% of precincts now reporting. Earlier it was 62%.

The Iowa Democratic Party reported additional caucus results, and Pete Buttigieg remains in the lead.

While we wait for more results, join me and our congressional and White House correspondents as we analyze President Trump’s speech in our live chat ›

Iowa isn’t the only major political event happening today. Back in Washington, President Trump is delivering his State of the Union address.

Someone here interrupted Biden’s speech about gun control. When the crowd grumbled, Biden said “that's OK, this isn’t a Trump rally. He’s a Trump guy.”

It’s tempting for Trump to play up Democratic dysfunction. But a lot of Republicans worry this narrative lulls voters into a false sense of security.

Sanders is an 87% favorite to win the popular vote on first alignment, according to our estimates. He and Pete seem poised to split pledged delegates.

Troubling for Democrats: Only 170,000 Iowans voted this year — well below the 240,000 in 2008, when a wave of enthusiasm put Obama in the White House.

Some of Buttigieg's strengths are things the young left abhor — talk of unity, invoking military, etc. His campaign is confident enough to not care.

Another number raising Democratic anxiety today: Gallup reports Trump's approval rating has climbed to 49%, his highest as president in that survey.

Sanders is close enough, and the delegate situation noisy enough, that I don’t think you’ll see race calls from news outlets based on results so far.

The Associated Press has now allocated 24 of Iowa’s 41 pledged delegates to the convention: 10 Buttigieg, 10 Sanders, 4 Warren.

Biden/Warren/Sanders are lucky that Buttigieg hasn’t gained traction elsewhere. Imagine if Iowa numbers were coupled with nonwhite voters' pulse.

Over all, I see no reason to think that Sanders will definitely come back when the remaining results are in. But he could.

Under more systematic examination, little reason to think remaining precincts are fundamentally unrepresentative (favoring either Buttigieg/Sanders).

Klobuchar campaign manager Justin Buoen tweets: “What these results make clear is that this is a five person race.”

Biden sends a fund-raising appeal: “We fought hard in Iowa. Now, we’re well-positioned to make our case to the rest of the country.”

Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver: In partial data, “it’s clear that in the first and second round more people voted for Bernie than any other candidate.”

Trump campaign also sees this early Buttigieg lead as potentially damaging to Bloomberg’s effort to set up a direct fight against Sanders.

The Trump campaign is viewing the partial results from Iowa cautiously, seeing Buttigieg as a potentially difficult opponent with crossover appeal.

Bloomberg’s pledge to double his advertising spending, along with these early results, will likely raise Democratic anxiety about a drawn-out primary.

It’s hard to look at these (partial!) results without thinking about Bloomberg lurking in those Super Tuesday states, dropping millions of dollars.

Biden’s team played down expectations in IA, but the reality is he invested lots of time and resources. 4th place, if it holds, is a significant blow.

Biden team today on results: “We’re hopeful that the Iowa Democratic Party will get it right because the integrity of this process is too important.”

We can see why Buttigieg was eager to declare victory last night. Iowa is all about momentum. These early results give him a shot at catching a wave.

The final alignment result is what will be used to determine all-important delegate counts. The winner will (eventually) be called based on delegates.

In the first alignment, Iowans stand in their candidate’s corner. In the final alignment, supporters of “nonviable” candidates can choose someone else.

No candidate saw more movement in final alignment than Buttigieg, who jumped 3.7 points from the first vote. No one else moved more than 2 points.

Buttigieg: “They’re not complete, but results are in from a majority of precincts and they show our campaign in first place.” Crowd: “President Pete!”

David Plouffe, who ran Barack Obama’s campaign, said on MSNBC that he thought this was the last Iowa caucuses. ”I believe caucuses are dead,” he said.

These initial results are nothing short of awful for Joe Biden. He’s leading in just six counties, all of them rural and with few delegates to award.

Just eyeballing the NYT precinct map, it doesn’t seem that either Sanders or Buttigieg has an obvious edge in what’s left of the vote. Here’s the map ›

Klobuchar appears to have gotten some help from her neighbors. Four of the 8 counties she’s currently leading in are close to the Minnesota border.

The preliminary results show Sanders running strong in Davenport and around Sioux City, both areas his campaign said would be places to watch for him.

Sanders doing best in the most populated areas, leading in Polk County (Des Moines), Linn (Cedar Rapids), Black Hawk (Waterloo), Johnson (Iowa City).

“Final alignment” numbers look good for Buttigieg vis-à-vis Warren. They were in a mini battle to pick off people from nonviable campaigns.

Check out the suburban counties surrounding Des Moines. That’s where Buttigieg’s lead was built, especially in Dallas County.

These preliminary results suggest the Buttigieg strategy of doing a ton of events in rural areas, especially in Obama-Trump counties, paid off.

I’m here at a middle-school gym in Laconia where a Buttigieg town hall is starting. He’s likely to address the Iowa results at the top of his talk.

The Sanders campaign has been careful not to criticize the state party. One reason is that his allies pushed for the new reporting rules after 2016.

Results are in from 1,099 of 1,765 precincts, including precincts in all 99 counties. When will the next batch come in? The state party has not said.

These numbers line up with how candidates framed things last night. Warren claimed top 3, Buttigieg claimed victory — looks like they weren’t far off.

With 62 percent of precincts in, Warren is leading in none of Iowa’s 99 counties. Biden leads in 6 and Klobuchar in 8.

The Sanders campaign released its own internal, unverified results earlier today showing him ahead. He stopped short of declaring himself the winner.

Buttigieg has a narrow lead with 26.9% of the “state delegate equivalents.” That metric will eventually determine who will be called as the winner.

Elizabeth Warren is running in third place, with Joe Biden in fourth. These results are only preliminary.

Pete Buttigieg took a narrow early lead over Bernie Sanders in the first wave of partial results from the Iowa caucuses.

The Iowa Democratic Party has released partial results from 62 percent of precincts. Those results are available now.

Follow today’s coverage on the delays in the Iowa caucus results in our live blog ›

One thing is certain: It's been a strange night. We’ll continue to wait for results, and for the latest updates, you can follow our live briefing ›

Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver: Internal reports from about 40% of precincts show Sanders ahead. Again, we can’t verify or conclude it’s representative.

Buttigieg aide basing victory claim on reports from 77% of their precinct captains. But we can’t say that’s representative or confirm their results.

Biden fund-raising email: “We’re in this for the long haul — remember it’s not about tonight, but about the whole campaign.”

From a county Democratic chair: “It’s both a major technology foul-up compounded by human foul-up. Unforgiveable, unbelieveable.”

Sean Bagniewski, Dem chair in Polk County, Iowa’s biggest, said the state did not hold app-only tests and training with his 177 precinct chairs.

Klobuchar campaign chief says they believe they’re close to Biden. No numbers are public so campaigns can set their own narratives.

J. Alex Halderman, computer science prof.: “This is an embarrassment but it shouldn’t shake people’s confidence in the results.” Read more ›

Christopher Krebs, director of the Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity agency, says the agency didn’t evaluate the results-reporting app.

Cybersecurity experts have expressed concern that the results-reporting app may not have been properly vetted before being launched in Iowa.

The Iowa result is far more about momentum than it is about delegates. Buttigieg is trying to give himself a boost until real totals are tabulated.

Buttigieg effectively declares himself the winner in Iowa, with no results: “Because by all indications we are going on to New Hampshire victorious.”

Pete Buttigieg on stage: “So we don’t know all the results, but we know by the time it’s all said and done, Iowa you have shocked the nation.”

Brad Parscale, Trump campaign manager: “Democrats are stewing in a caucus mess of their own creation with the sloppiest train wreck in history.”

The party is attempting to verify results reported on the app by getting smartphone pictures of the paper worksheets at each precinct site.

More Yang in Iowa: “The math that I care most about is the fact that this movement has become something that has already shocked the political world.”

Looks like multiple candidates will claim victory of sorts in Iowa, then hop on a plane to N.H. and make moot whatever the actual results are.

Yang speech in Des Moines: “I’m a numbers guy, and we’re still waiting on numbers from tonight. We’re all looking around being like, what’s the math?”

At Buttigieg HQ at Drake University, Representative Anthony Brown of Maryland came out a few minutes ago and said Buttigieg is on his way here.

With only 35% of the results reported to party headquarters, party officials are matching paper worksheets by hand, according to a campaign official.

Iowa party officials hung up on the campaigns after being asked about when results might be known, according to two people who listened to the call.

Hearing a LOT of frustration from Iowa Democratic county chairs. As one said: “AARRGGH!!”

On a conference call, party officials told campaigns the delay was because of new rules requiring caucus leaders to report 3 numbers to the party ›

Biden team to state party: Campaigns should get “full explanations & relevant information regarding the methods of quality control you are employing.”

The Biden campaign sent a letter to the Iowa Democratic Party late Monday night citing “considerable flaws” in the reporting system for the caucuses.

Sanders on stage: “When those results are announced, I have a good feeling we’re going to be doing very, very well here in Iowa.”

More from Mandy McClure, Iowa Democratic Party: “This is simply a reporting issue, the app did not go down and this is not a hack or an intrusion.”

The anecdotal evidence for Biden was looking rough all night. But the delay in the results, and potential for confusion, may buffer any blow for him.

Rob Sand, state auditor: “When people demand … three times the data, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that it takes substantially longer to do it.”

The Iowa Democratic Party told campaigns they have 35 percent of precincts reported, but would provide no other details about tonight's results.

“We’re going to walk out of here with our share of delegates,” Biden says. “We feel good about where we are.”

Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are speaking at the same time. Fox News took Warren while CNN and MSNBC stuck with Biden.

Warren: "It's too close to call, but I'm just going to tell you what I do know: As the baby daughter of a janitor, I'm so glad to be on this stage tonight."

Joe and Jill Biden are onstage at the Biden party in Des Moines. “Well, it looks like it’s going to be a long night, but I’m feeling good,” he says.

Elizabeth Warren is about to address supporters in Des Moines. She is being introduced by her grandchildren.

Iowa Democrats: “We found inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results.” Using photos & paper trail “to validate that all results match.”

Joe Biden will be speaking shortly at his party in Des Moines, a campaign official says.

A precinct captain in Dubuque tells me the app to report results didn’t load and nobody helped. She’s now on hold with party officials.

“Somehow, some way, I’m going to get on a plane tonight to New Hampshire, and we are bringing this to New Hampshire,” Klobuchar added.

"We know there’s delays, but we know one thing — we are punching above our weight," Amy Klobuchar told supporters in a hotel ballroom in Des Moines.

William Baresel, the Floyd County chair, told me “I have had 3 precincts unable to report results.” They couldn't report through the app or by phone.

You think figuring caucus results is easy? At the precinct I was at, organizers stumbled over the viability threshold, miscalculating 262 people x 15%.

Iowa Democrats have been concerned about anything that could jeopardize the integrity of the caucuses, concerned about protecting their leadoff status.

The later the results come in, the less time the ultimate winner will have to cash in with small donations before people in the East head to bed.

Representatives from the campaigns have been called into the Iowa Democratic Party boiler room to discuss the issues with reporting the results.

A caucus secretary in Story County grew frustrated trying to report results to the state party by phone — he was on hold — and just tweeted them out ›

There are a lot of jitters right now, but remember, the caucus process is complicated. A lot of counting, and math, is involved in getting it right.

Hard to imagine Camp Bloomberg isn’t a little gleeful right now. If Biden does poorly, Bloomberg may benefit by swooping in on Super Tuesday.

Iowa Democratic Party: “What we know right now is that around 25% of precincts have reported, and early data indicates turnout is on pace for 2016.”

Iowa Democratic Party says results delay ”due to quality checks and the fact that the IDP is reporting out three data sets for the first time.”

A tale of 2 precincts, in descending order. Dubuque 19: Bernie, Warren, Pete, Biden (Amy out). Dubuque 1: Biden, Pete, Amy, Warren (Bernie out).

Videos of coin flips on Twitter. There were reported to be half a dozen tied caucuses in 2016. The rules allow any chance method to decide the winner.

I'm starting to hear campaign frustration with the Iowa Democratic Party as these results still haven’t come in.

Another reason for the results delay: Many precinct chairs abandoned the new app that was built to report results, as users struggled to log in ›

Some Biden donors have been on edge in recent weeks, terrified by the prospect of a Sanders surge. The donor class reaction is important to watch.

Biden supporters in Des Moines’s 41st tried to get to viability on second round and gave up. Precinct captain freed them to join other candidates.

Cory Booker may have dropped out, but he won a state delegate at a caucus at Drake University in a protest move by Yang, Klobuchar & Biden supporters.

I spoke to a woman who was driven to her caucus site by a friend supporting Sanders, so she felt pressure to back him. This is public voting.

The Biden campaign insists that when they talk about “electability,” they mean in November. But no doubt a shaky showing here would prompt questions.

There's been lot of discussion about “electability.” I wonder how that looks tomorrow, given the reports of Biden not being viable in some caucuses.

Why so few results? Party officials tell me they’re doing “quality control,” making sure preference cards and turnout align with the data coming in.

The lack of results from Iowa is not normal. By this time in 2016, nearly 80% of the total vote was counted, based on the data we saved from 2016.

The Biden campaign has focused on delegates and expected to be viable across the board. Failing in these precincts has to be stunning for his allies.

At Des Moines precinct 41, some mass whispers as the crowd realizes Biden would not be viable. Count was 71 for first alignment and threshold was 102.

Second alignment results from Dubuque’s 19th: Sanders 79 (+5); Warren 70 (+15); Buttigieg 61 (+14); Biden 50 (+4). Warren and Pete the big gainers.

First alignment results from Dubuque’s 19th precinct: Sanders 74; Warren 55; Buttigieg 47; Biden 46. Nonviable: Klobuchar 24; Yang 13; Gabbard 2.

As CNN & MSNBC cover caucus results, Sean Hannity on Fox News is interviewing Eric Trump and praising his father’s record in office.

At a G.O.P. caucus site in Cedar Rapids, two people vote for Mitt Romney for president, eliciting groans from the overwhelmingly pro-Trump crowd.

Of course, we don't want to extrapolate too much from one caucus site. But things are getting exciting! Caucusgoers are caucusing!

Johnston 2 is a rough result for Biden — his team hoped he would be the 2nd choice of Klobuchar backers. That he wouldn't even be viable is striking.

Johnston 2 is a nice win for Klobuchar. Her staff has said she would be viable in some places. Winning an Obama-to-Trump area is a feather in her cap.

Final results from Johnston 2: Klobuchar 106, Sanders 83, Buttigieg 81, Warren 69. Warren picked up most Biden supporters after he was not viable.

We’re heading into our second hour of caucusing, with no end in sight.

Caucuses are self-selecting. Only those willing, and able, to participate in the process on a cold winter night, sometimes for many hours, turn out.

Update — there is NO recount in Des Moines 39. False alarm!

Someone I know at precinct 39 in Des Moines told me they have to do a recount there because someone who was unregistered participated. That’s a no-no.

It’s worth remembering that caucuses are not primaries. Even if it looks good for a candidate after the first alignment, things could change a lot.

It’s early, but I’m getting signals that turnout in some places is very high. One county chair said a Des Moines precinct more than doubled since 2016.

When we get more data, we’ll keep track of the “state delegate equivalents” in the “Total” column on our results page. That will determine the winner.

The tallies from the “final alignment” determine how many state delegates each candidate will get — and ultimately who the winner will be.

As we await results, a reminder: If a candidate fails to earn 15% support from a precinct, his or her supporters can shift to a “viable” candidate.

First alignment results from Johnston: Sanders 76, Klobuchar 75, Buttigieg 70, Warren 59. Not viable: Biden 37, Yang 33, Steyer 4, Gabbard 4.

Biden’s weakness in Johnston suggests he may have a poor showing statewide. This is a suburban area that flipped from G.O.P. to Democratic in 2018.

Biden and Yang each have fewer than 40 supporters here and won’t reach viability. A Yang supporter tried to sway the Biden precinct captain to Yang.

Klobuchar and Sanders each have more than 70 supporters here. Buttigieg has 64.

Warren precinct captain Rhonda Gooding is counting the caucusgoers here. It will require 54 people to reach viability. She counted 59 for Warren.

Waukee precinct 5 (one of three precincts holding G.O.P. caucuses here): 33 for Trump, 0 for anyone else.

The caucuses aren’t just about getting delegates. Joe Biden entered 2020 with less money than his top rivals and hopes he can drive donations tonight ›

Joe Biden, in a fund-raising email, calls tonight’s caucuses “the first big step, but one of many steps to go.”

In a bold early move, The Associated Press has called the Republican caucuses for President Trump.

It doesn’t look like Joe Biden will be viable here in Johnston. It requires 54 supporters to reach 15 percent and Biden appears to have less than 40.

Amy Klobuchar made her pitch to about 350 people here. Johnston is a Des Moines suburb filled with the sort of moderate Democrats she is banking on.

Fresh from Washington, Elizabeth Warren tried to win some last-minute votes at Roosevelt High School, thanking caucusgoers as they went into the gym.

The Bernie Sanders campaign app is down, his precinct captain here said. He had planned to text supporters through the app but was calling instead.

There are fewer Biden supporters here and his people are getting nervous. “It is a bit worrisome,” said Penny Schempp, the Biden precinct captain.

Gregory Davis, Amy Klobuchar’s precinct captain here, doesn’t have a list of her likely supporters. “I wish there was a way to tell who is undecided.”

There’s one candidate saying that whatever happens in Iowa tonight does not matter all that much: Michael R. Bloomberg, who’s skipping the caucuses.

It is standing room only at the Republican caucus site here, where upwards of 250 people have showed up for a vote that doesn’t appear in doubt.

A crowded cafeteria in Dubuque as the caucus chairwoman welcomes the crowd. One vet tells me turnout is about the same as 2016.

The caucuses are now playing out at more than 1,600 sites in Iowa, like the gym I’m at here in Johnston. Here’s how a caucus works ›

The first results in Iowa are expected around 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, with most results in hand by 11 p.m. Some out-of-state caucuses have reported.

Iowans are about to be the first to deliver a verdict in the 2020 race — the caucuses are now underway!

More than 200,000 people are expected to participate in the Democratic caucuses tonight. But for many Iowans with disabilities, it's impossible ›

Another problem with early entrance polls: The people who show up at the last second tend to be younger and vote differently than the early arrivals.

If you're watching on TV, you might see early entrance poll results. But they're not based on very much data.

Open Question No. 3: Everything about Joe Biden.

Open Question No. 2: Whether Sanders has lost his edge in rural areas, even as he has gained statewide, since the fall.

Things that strike me as totally open questions, No. 1: Who is favored in the Des Moines suburbs, especially if Klobuchar is creeping up there.

Many of you may know that there are *four* different sets of results this year. They could all split. Read about that “perfect storm” here ›

Rhonda Gooding, Elizabeth Warren’s precinct captain, has a list of people who committed to Warren. She says she’ll call if they’re not here by 6:30.

The Democratic candidates ran more than $2.1 million worth of ads in Iowa over 48 hours on Saturday and Sunday, making their final arguments.

I’m at a Republican caucus (yes, they’re happening) in Waukee, Iowa, where Mick Mulvaney is scheduled to make an appearance.

Greetings from Johnston. I just arrived here to learn that Amy Klobuchar will be speaking at this precinct tonight.

I’m here at the Des Moines Marriott, the see-and-be-seen spot for reporters, TV anchors and campaign folks Read more ›

“We’re going to survive all the way through this whole thing,” Biden says when asked if he can survive anything short of a first-place finish tonight.

Team Sanders just sent an email with a countdown clock, saying, “the most important thing you can do today is turn out to caucus by 6:30 p.m.”

The final alignment result is what will be used to determine all-important delegate counts, and the winner will be called based on those delegates.

In the first alignment, Iowans stand in their candidate’s corner. In the final alignment, supporters of “nonviable” candidates can choose someone else.

Early results from out-of-state caucuses are on our results page, with two different sets of numbers: the first alignment and the final alignment.

I’m headed to Dubuque’s 19th precinct, which is supposed to be the largest caucus in this city. Around 600 in 2016. More than 750 expected this year.

Pete Buttigieg began the day telling a crowd of excited supporters in West Des Moines that he had no regrets: “Everything comes down to today.”

Here in Dubuque, two dozen friends were largely undecided on whom to caucus for. They decided to hash it out while watching the Super Bowl last night ›

I recently talked to Joshua Kucera, who’s running the satellite caucus in Georgia — the country, not the state. Here’s more on the caucus in Tbilisi ›

Fewer than 200 people participated in the satellite caucuses that are reporting, and we’re expecting a turnout of more than 200,000 tonight.

While Iowa’s caucuses don’t officially start until 7 p.m. Central time, some satellite caucuses — including a few overseas — have already concluded.

If you’re already following our results page, you may have been surprised to see some results already trickling in. They’re from “satellite” caucuses.

There are more than 1,600 caucus sites. Small gatherings can be over in minutes; larger ones can last up to two hours. Here’s how the caucuses work ›

One of the biggest unknowns — the weather — is expected to be clear and not too cold across the state, at least for February in Iowa.

Estimates of the statewide caucusgoer turnout from the campaigns, party officials and Iowa elected Democrats range between 225,000 and 300,000.

Iowa Democrats are expecting record caucus participation, with turnout very likely topping the 240,000 from 2008. Read more in our live briefing ›

The caucuses start at 8 p.m. Eastern time (7 p.m. in Iowa). The first results are expected at 8:30 p.m. Eastern. Here’s what to watch for ›

We have more than a dozen reporters here in Iowa and more in New York who’ll be providing updates throughout the night.

After months of anticipation, Iowans will finally head to their precinct sites tonight to kick off the primary process.

Hello, everyone! Thank you for joining us. I can’t believe it is actually caucus day.