Early voting results show Republican Donald Trump is on track to be the next US president – defying polling predictions and despite the fact that Democrat Hillary Clinton looks set to win the popular vote. Clinton has lost Florida, the most influential of tonight’s contested states. In Florida, results reported by the state’s board of election show that more than 290,000 votes went to third-party candidates. Clinton was left needing to win the remaining safe Democratic states and all the remaining competitive ones. That has happened four times before in US history, most recently in the 2000 election, where Republican George W Bush became president despite losing the popular vote to Al Gore by less than a percentage point.

Source: The Guardian November 09, 2016 04:49 UTC