[SubMareener]

With only 1 precinct left to report, here is the final allocation of Iowa’s 27 Republican delegates:
Ted Cruz 8 on 51,649 votes or 27.7%
Donald Trump 7 on 45,416 votes or 24.3%
Marco Rubio 7 on 43,132 votes or 23.1%
Ben Carson 3 on 17,393 votes or 9.3%
Rand Paul 1 on 8,478 votes or 4.5%
Jeb Bush 1 on 5,235 votes or 2.8%

Congratulations to Ted Cruz on his big win tonight.
Sources:
http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/01/iowa-caucuses-2016-delegate-tracker/79636466/
http://graphics.latimes.com/election-2016-iowa-results/

[justa-hairyape]

You all may laugh that Jebba the Hut only got 1%, but that was his strategy all along. He was going to lose the primary to win the general. You just watch. /sarc.

[JediJones]

Cruz got 51,000 votes. Previously, Santorum won with 29,000 and Huckabee won with 40,000.

Trump’s percentage was lower than the 2nd place winners’ percentages in 2008 and 2012.

[spetznaz]

It is definitely a big win, but how big is the question. The last time a person running for the Republican Presidential Nomination won the State of Iowa caucus, and went on to win the Republican nomination, was in 2000 when President George W Bush won Iowa and proceeded to nab the nomination. Since then, winners in Iowa did not garner the nomination.

However, it is a big win as it creates a lot of positive momentum for Senator Cruz, and momentum is important in a field that contains a lot of people jostling for votes.

It is my hope that the field will narrow a bit. If you recall in 2012, the three horse race between Gingrich, Santorum and Romney had Romney only getting a third of the votes, but the 'good votes' getting split between Santorum and Gingrich. Result? Romney won.

We currently have a three horse race between Cruz, Trump and Rubio, and things are about to get quite interesting.