Donald Trump has won the race for President of the United States, earning a historic second term.
He surpassed the critical threshold of 270 electoral college votes with a victory in the state of Wisconsin and continued to capture key battleground states.
At the same time, Republicans are also expected to take control of the Senate and are leading the latest count of seats in the House of Representatives.
Which states determined the presidency
To win the White House, a candidate needs 270 votes out of 538 in the Electoral College.
Each state is worth a different number of votes based on the size of its population. In most cases, if a candidate gets the most votes in a state, they win all of the Electoral College votes for that state.
A few of the most hotly contested battleground states voted for Democratic candidate Joe Biden in 2020, but this year they were won by Trump.
The map above shows voting in each Pennsylvania county.
Kamala Harris dominated the state’s major cities, namely Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton, but Trump dominated elsewhere.
Crucially, it overturned a 2020 Democratic victory in northwest Erie County, which has voted for the winning presidential party in every election since 2008.
Meanwhile, Arizona is the last of seven pre-election battlegrounds and the only state that has yet to declare a result.
Biden won the state by just 10,000 votes in 2020, but Trump currently leads Harris with about three-quarters of the votes counted.
Republicans should control the Senate
There are also elections in both houses of Congress. With a majority in both houses, a president’s agenda is generally much easier to pass.
Republicans have already taken control of the Senate, winning three seats from Democrats in 2017. West Virginia, MontanaAnd Ohio.
And with the presidency also assured, Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance will sit as speaker of the upper house.
Not all seats have yet been declared in the lower house, the House of Representatives.
All 435 seats were up for vote and several changed hands.
A party needs 218 seats to control the House, and before Election Day, Republicans held them. The final tallies will determine whether they maintain this lead.
What exit polls tell us about how people voted
Preliminary results suggest that no group or region contributed to Donald Trump’s victory. small wins in many locations added to victory.
Exit polls in the United States help paint a picture of how different groups of people voted across the country. Ballot exit data is updated throughout the night.
The latest numbers suggest women have gone bankrupt for Harris, but perhaps not in the numbers her campaign hoped for, at 53% to Trump’s 45%.
In 2020, exit polls suggested that 57% of women supported Joe Biden, which is broadly similar once the margin of error is taken into account.
When it comes to race, Trump leads among white voters — the largest group — and Harris leads among black voters.
She was also ahead among Hispanic voters, but support for Trump increased by more than 10 points among that group compared to 2020.
In particular, Trump achieved a significant gain in support among Latino male voters – up 18 points from 2020.
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