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Republican leader Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris in the race for the White House.
Harris was hoping to become the first woman elected president, while Trump was vying to become only the second former president to win a non-consecutive second term.
The election had been expected to come down to a handful of battleground states - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and severeal big wins was enough to secure the victory.
In the list below we have key race alongside each of those states. Here's how it stands by Thursday morning.
- Alabama - Trump projected winner 9 electoral votes
- Alaska - no call so far 3 electoral votes
- Arizona - no call so far 11 electoral votes - key race
- Arkansas - Trump projected winner 6 electoral votes
- California - Harris projected winner 54 electoral votes
- Colorado - Harris projected winner 10 electoral votes
- Connecticut - Harris projected winner 7 electoral votes
- Delaware - Harris projected winner 3 electoral votes
- District of Columbia - Harris projected winner 3 electoral votes
- Florida - Trump projected winner 30 electoral votes
- Georgia - Trump projected winner 16 electoral votes - key race
- Hawaii - Harris projected winner 4 electoral votes
- Idaho - Trump projected winner 4 electoral votes
- Illinois - Harris projected winner 19 electoral votes
- Indiana - Trump projected winner 11 electoral votes
- Iowa - Trump projected winner 6 electoral votes
- Kansas - Trump projected winner 6 electoral votes
- Kentucky - Trump projected winner 8 electoral votes
- Lousiana - Trump projected winner 8 electoral votes
- Maine - no call so far - 4 electoral votes (two for the statewide winner, one each to the winner of the state's two congressional districts)
- Maryland - Harris projected winner 10 electoral votes
- Massachusetts - Harris projected winner 11 electoral votes
- Michigan - Trump projected winner 15 electoral votes - key race
- Minnesota - Harris project winner 10 electoral votes - key race
- Mississippi - Trump projected winner 6 electoral votes
- Missouri - Trump projected winner 10 electoral votes
- Montana - Trump projected winner 4 electoral votes
- Nebraska - Trump will win at least three of 5 electoral votes ( two of five electoral votes go to the winner of the statewide vote and one electoral vote goes to the winner in each of the state's three congressional districts)
- Nevada - no call so far 6 electoral votes - key race
- New Hampshire - Harris projected winner 4 electoral votes
- New Jersey - Harris projected winner 14 electoral votes
- New Mexico - Harris projected winner 5 electoral votes
- New York - Harris projected winner 28 electoral votes
- North Carolina - Trump projected winner 16 electoral votes - key race
- North Dakota - Trump projected winner 3 electoral votes
- Ohio - Trump projected winner 17 electoral votes
- Oklahoma - Trump projected winner 7 electoral votes
- Oregon - Harris projected winner 8 electoral votes
- Pennsylvania - Trump projected winner 19 electoral votes
- Rhode Island - Harris projected winner 4 electoral votes
- South Carolina - Trump projected winner 9 electoral votes
- South Dakota - Trump projected winner 3 electoral votes
- Tennessee - Trump projected winner 11 electoral votes
- Texas - Trump projected winner 40 electoral votes
- Utah - Trump projected winner 6 electoral votes
- Vermont - Harris projected winner 3 electoral votes
- Virginia - Harris projected winner 13 electoral votes
- Washington - Harris projected winner 12 electoral votes
- West Virginia - Trump projected winner 4 electoral votes
- Wisconsin - Trump projected winner 10 electoral votes - key race
- Wyoming - Trump projected winner 3 electoral votes
-CNN /RNZ