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When will the US election results be announced? Everything you need to know
Amy Willis for Metro.co.ukThursday 3 Nov 2016 11:02 am
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It is going to be a long night on Tuesday, November 8 – with results announced into the morning.
The election will see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump battle it out to become the 45th president of the United States.
Polls across all 50 states in America and Washington DC will open from around 6am and 7am (that’s 11am and 12pm in the UK) and close between 7pm and 8pm (midnight and 1am GMT).
During that time, around 120 million Americans will cast their votes. This year is also the first time new voting laws will come into place in 14 states.
Here is when we can expect the results to be announced.
When will the US election results be announced?
Halloween masks for Clinton and Trump (Picture: Getty Images)
5.01am November 8 (00.01 ET) – The first results will be announced in Dixville Notch in New Hampshire. The results are usually announced here, sometimes 24 hours before the rest of the country, first due to the small village just 20 miles south of the Canadian border only having so few residents.The village has a tradition of voting in the middle of the night to ensure an early result, gathering in the ballroom of a ski resort before other polls even open to announce the result. New Hampshire is also expected to declare shortly after too.
11am November 8 (6am ET) – Majority of polls open. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will be seen casting their votes shortly after this in New York. Polling gets under way.
Midnight November 8 (7pm ET) – Polls begin to close with predictions made based on exit polls. Results will be released state by state from this time onward throughout the evening/morning.
4am November 9 (11pm ET Nov 8) – This is the earliest time the likely result can be predicted. The result could come any time from this point on with speeches from Clinton and Trump.
NOTE: The clocks go back one hour in America on November 6
Which are the states to keep an eye on?
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Swing states – the key states to watch will be Nevada (6 votes), Arizona (11 votes), Colorado (9 votes), Iowa (6 votes), Ohio (18 votes), Florida (29 votes), North Carolina (15 votes), Virginia (13 votes), Pennsylvania (20 votes) and New Hampshire (4 votes).
Swing states, much like swing seats in the UK, give a good indication of how a party is doing and can be crucial in the final outcome. In 2000 Florida played a decisive role when George W. Bush beat Al Gore by just 500 votes out of 5.8 million to claim all its electoral college votes.
The key states to look out for include Florida, Ohio, Nevada and Georgia.
Securing all of those would provide the winner with 69 electoral college votes and the Democrats have the edge in the first three, while the Republicans look set to win Georgia and its 16 votes.
Typically Democrat states – California (55 votes), Oregon (7 votes), Hawaii (4 votes), Washington (12 votes), New Mexico (5 votes), Minnesota (10 votes), Wisconsin (10 votes), Illinois (20 votes), Michigan (16 votes), New York (29 votes), Vermont (3 votes), Maine (4 votes), Massachusetts (11 votes), Connecticut (7 votes), New Jersey (14 votes), Delaware (3 votes), Maryland (10 votes), District of Columbia (3 votes) and Rhode Island (4 votes).
Typically Republican states – Alaska (3 votes), Utah (6 votes), Idaho (4 votes), Montana (3 votes), Wyoming (3 votes), North Dakota (3 votes), South Dakota (3 votes), Nebraska (5 votes), Kansas (6 votes), Oklahoma (7 votes), Indiana (11 votes), Texas (38 votes), Louisiana (8 votes), Arkansas (6 votes), Missouri (10 votes), Mississippi (6 votes), Alabama (9 votes), Georgia (16 votes), South Carolina (9 votes), Tennessee (11 votes), Kentucky (8 votes) and West Virginia (5 votes).
When will we know the result?
By around 4am in the UK (11am on the east coast of the US) it is usually obvious which side has won. Each side will be hoping to win 270 electoral votes so once most of the swing states have announced the candidate edging closest to this figure will become clear.
But this is not always the case. In the 2000 election between George Bush and Al Gore the result wasn’t announced until the end of election day.
The result could even be a tie with both candidates getting 269 votes. If this happens, it falls to the House of Representatives to choose the next president.
Once a winner has emerged both candidates traditionally give speeches, one to claim victory and one to concede defeat. However, Donald Trump has already claimed that he will not accept the result if he loses, so be prepared to see a change in usual format if this is the case.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/03/when-...nnounced-everything-you-need-to-know-6231830/
