On Tuesday night, the votes came in for the first primary in the nation (Iowa was a caucus), and the two obvious frontrunners in the state, Bernie Sanders of the Democrats and Donald Trump of the Republicans, came up winners.
On the Democratic side, Sanders had 59.54% of the vote and his sole opponent, Hillary Clinton, only received 38.78%. Of the delegates to be doled out in New Hampshire, 13 went to Sanders and 7 went to Clinton.
However, on the Republican side, real estate mogul Donald Trump had 34.44%. Second place John Kasich picked up 16.42%. Ted Cruz stole third place with 11.46%. In fourth came former Florida governor Jeb Bush, with 11.19% of the vote.
Marco Rubio dropped from third in Iowa to fifth in New Hampshire with only 10.51%. 17 delegates are to be doled out on the Republican side, but under a 10% threshold. Here is how it works:
All candidates with less than 10% of the votes get no delegates. The remaining candidates have 10% subtracted from their total. Add the new vote of all of the “over 10% candidates” together. Divide each candidate’s new vote total by the votes added together and then multiply by 100.
Now, the 17 delegates are divided among these new votes proportionally. In New Hampshire, Trump got 10 delegates, Kasich got 3, Cruz got 2, Bush got 2, and everyone else got 0.
The total pledged delegate tally is as follows: On the Democratic side, Sanders has 34 and Clinton has 32. On the Republican side, Trump has 18, Cruz has 10, Rubio has 7, Kasich has 4, and Carson rounds out the top 5 with 3.
Next article will come out on February 21, the morning after the South Carolina Primary.