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Now, as the focus turns to New Hampshire and its primary next Tuesday, Mr. Buttigieg has emerged as a formidable top-tier contender, harnessing the momentum from Iowa and campaigning with confidence and a large dose of swagger.

New polls this week have affirmed his strength as a moderate rivaling or even surpassing Mr. Biden: A Monmouth survey put him second in New Hampshire, 4 percentage points behind Mr. Sanders, and a Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll published on Friday showed him gaining momentum there and in a virtual tie with Mr. Sanders.

For a long time in this primary, Democrats seemed to be deciding between the progressive sizzle in Mr. Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, or the statesmanlike security blanket in Mr. Biden. In the end, Iowans liked Mr. Sanders but also embraced Mr. Buttigieg, a Midwestern neighbor with a compelling biography: Rhodes scholar, military veteran, potential history-maker as an openly gay candidate.

That he had run a city of 100,000 people did not seem to bother his supporters, who gravitated toward his soothing paeans to consensus-driven solutions and “the American experiment.”

Much of his success can be traced to geography and timing. While Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren focused their campaigns on Iowa’s cities and college towns and Mr. Biden never developed a strong organization, Mr. Buttigieg went everywhere. He held more events over more days in Iowa than his top three rivals, two of whom were sidelined by the Senate impeachment trial, and watched the investment pay off by running strong in the Des Moines suburbs and across rural Iowa.