Republican Donald Trump Is Elected President Of United States

Donald Trump will become the 45th US president after a victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Americans elected president, all 435 members of the House of Representatives, 34 of the 100 senators, governors of 12 states and two territories.

Republican Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States, according to the New York Times and Associated Press, who called the election in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday. Trump’s ascendance to the White House came after a sweep of many hard fought swing states in the midwest and southeast.

The Republican nominee's projected victory came down to a handful of key swing states, despite months of polling that favoured Mrs Hillary Clinton, BBC projects.

Trump won with 288 electoral votes (48%) compared to 215 (47,2%) for Clinton, according to CNN projections.

Speaking at a victory party in New York, Trump was gracious toward Clinton and called for unity.

«We owe (Clinton) a very major debt of gratitude to her for her service to our country,» Trump said. «I say it is time for us to come together as one united people.»

He added: «I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans.»

The US president-elect took to the stage at his victory rally in New York and said: «I just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us on our victory».

Trump's supporters embraced his plainspoken style, assault on political correctness and vow to crush what he portrayed in the final days of his campaign as a corrupt, globalized elite -- epitomized by the Clintons -- that he claimed conspired to keep hard-working Americans down.

According to The Guardian Trump was the first reality TV star – and the first non-politician since Dwight Eisenhower – to win the nomination for president of a major political party. At 70, he is the oldest person in history to be elected US president.

His victory ends Clinton's crusade to become the first woman to ever rise to the nation's highest office. It's a humiliating chapter in the long political career of Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.