The Iowa Democratic Party says the delay is due simply to "a reporting issue".
Iowa’s caucuses are the test for the frontrunners, leftist Senator Bernie Sanders and moderate former vice president Joe Biden, in the process to determine who will face Trump in November.
Sanders and Biden had been leading the polls in Iowa, followed by Senator Elizabeth Warren and former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Despite the absence of reported results, Sanders is claiming victory, citing internal campaign data.
According to the Sanders campaign, the senator garnered 28.62% in nearly 40% of precincts in Iowa.
Sanders earlier told cheering supporters "When those results are announced I have a good feeling we're going to be doing very, very well here in Iowa."
"Tonight in this enormously consequential 2020 election, the first state in the country has voted, and today marks the beginning of the end for Donald Trump." He added.
Biden has condemned the delay, saying there were "considerable flaws" with the reporting system.
In a statement read on US networks, Mandy McClure, communications director at the Iowa Democratic Party, said "This is simply a reporting issue," denying there was "a hack or an intrusion" as Republicans including Trump Jr rushed to suggest either incompetence or foul play by the Democratic leadership.
American voters poured into more than 1,600 schools, community centers and other public locations around Iowa on Monday to render judgment on a field of 11 Democratic contenders.
Mostly white, rural Iowa is the first test in the state-by-state battle to pick a Democratic nominee to face Trump in the November 3 election.
After more than a year of campaigning, Iowa’s results will begin to provide answers for a party desperately trying to figure out how to beat the president.
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