Donald Trump is claiming early victory in the race for the presidency of the United States.
He has not yet reached the critical threshold of 270 electoral college votes, but the vote counting suggests he is on track to win in several key states.
Kamala Harris has not yet conceded defeat.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are also set to take control of the Senate.
What exit polls tell us about how people voted
The US exit polls help build a picture of how different groups of people have voted across the nation. Exit poll data is updated throughout the night.
The latest numbers suggest that women broke for Kamala Harris but perhaps not by the margins her campaign had hoped, at 54% compared with 44% for Donald Trump.
In 2020, the exit polls suggested 57% of women backed Joe Biden, which is broadly similar once the margin of error is taken into account.
Looking at race, Trump led among white voters – the biggest single group – and Harris led with black voters.
She was also ahead with Hispanic voters but support for Trump has increased more than 10 points among this group compared with 2020.
In particular, Trump has won a significant increase in support from male Latino voters – up 18 points on 2020.
A majority of younger voters backed Harris while just over half of middle-aged voters voted for Trump, the latest data suggests. The over-65 age group is evenly split.
Nearly six in 10 college-educated voters in the data said they voted Harris, while a similar proportion of people without a college degree voted for Trump.
Which states determined the presidency
To win the White House, a candidate needs 270 out of 538 electoral college votes.
Each state is worth a differing number of electoral college votes depending on the size of the population. In most cases if a candidate gets the most votes in a state, they win all the electoral college votes for that state.
Pennsylvania was considered the biggest state to watch out for. With its 19 electoral votes, it was seen as a major part to either side winning.
The state has been projected for Donald Trump.
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The map above shows the voting in each county of Pennsylvania.
Kamala Harris needed to do well in the densely populated suburbs of the major cities.
Erie (in the north-west of the map), Northampton (half way down the east side) and Luzerne (to the east of Scranton) are all counties that voted for Trump in 2016 and switched to Biden in 2020. Now they’ve voted for Trump again.
Trump has also been projected to win in the battleground states of North Carolina and Georgia.
Republicans projected to control Senate
There are also elections to both Houses of Congress. The Republicans are projected to have gained a majority in Senate after wins including West Virginia and Ohio.
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If the President’s party controls both these institutions it gives him a good chance of implementing their agenda.
If either House is in the hands of the other party, more negotiation will be needed.
