Trickery by politician following Iowa's first recount (6)
I believe the answer is:
impart
'recount' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'trickery by politician following' is the wordplay.
'trickery' becomes 'art' (I've seen this before).
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'politician following' becomes 'imp' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'art' after 'imp' is 'IMPART'.
'iowa's first' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for impart that I've seen before include "Divulge about armpit" , "Reveal details" , "Transmit" , "Contribute" , "Communicate (information)" .)