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| In a stunning election night the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, has secured victory after a string of formerly Democratic states including Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and Iowa have voted Republican. | In a stunning election night the Republican nominee for president, Donald Trump, has secured victory after a string of formerly Democratic states including Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio and Iowa have voted Republican. |
| With some states still to declare a result, the map below shows how strong the Republican vote was across the US, pushing Democratic support back to strongholds on the west coast and the north east. Overall Donald Trump is expected to get about 48% of the vote, with Hillary Clinton taking 47%. | With some states still to declare a result, the map below shows how strong the Republican vote was across the US, pushing Democratic support back to strongholds on the west coast and the north east. Overall Donald Trump is expected to get about 48% of the vote, with Hillary Clinton taking 47%. |
| The Democrats lost support in the mid-west and around the Great Lakes, as well as in the south east, with exit polls suggesting that Mrs Clinton received less votes from non-whites than President Obama did in his election victories of 2012 and 2008. | The Democrats lost support in the mid-west and around the Great Lakes, as well as in the south east, with exit polls suggesting that Mrs Clinton received less votes from non-whites than President Obama did in his election victories of 2012 and 2008. |
| The national share of the vote dropped by about three points for the Democrats to 47% compared with 2012, while the Republican share of the vote increased by less than one point. | |
| For Donald Trump, taking the key state of Florida, which had previously voted for President Obama twice, was vitally important, but the result was on a knife edge, with the Republican candidate winning by one percent of the vote. |