9 Nov 2016

US election results by state

11:18 pm on 9 November 2016

After more than a year of campaigning, in what is being called a historic election, Republican candidate Donald Trump has triumphed over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

To win, they needed to be the first to reach 270 of the 538 state-by-state electoral votes.

It will take some time for the final results to be counted, and some states had not yet been called for either candidate late on Wednesday.

Check the state-by-state results as they come in:

Look at what was expected, based on previous years' results as well as the most recent polls this year:

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