WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Election Day 2016 (all times EST):
10:47 p.m.
Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado has won re-election against a tea party-aligned opponent, conservative Darryl Glenn.
At the campaign's start, Bennet was considered one of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in this cycle. GOP leaders criticized Bennet's support for President Barack Obama's deal to ease economic sanctions against Iran and his support for Obama's proposal to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
But the Republican field was a crowded one, and of the five candidates who made the GOP primary, none had previously held statewide office.
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10:46 p.m.
Eight years after losing his bid for president, five-term GOP Sen. John McCain turned away a determined challenge from Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick.
McCain publicly struggled with whether to support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who called McCain a loser and criticized him for being captured during the Vietnam War.
The 80-year-old McCain reluctantly stood by Trump for months despite the personal insults, but ended his tepid support last month after the release of a 2005 recording in which Trump used crude, predatory language to boast about groping women.
McCain said Trump's behavior and "demeaning comments about women" made it impossible to support him.
The decision angered some Republicans, who routinely boo when Trump mentions McCain's name.
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10:34 p.m.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin denies press reports that he's considering switching political parties.
He calls himself a born-in-the-wool West Virginia Democrat. He tells The Associated Press the reports are wrong.
Manchin is the senior senator from West Virginia. He previously served as governor in the state. In November 2010, he won a special election to fill the seat once held by Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history until his death.
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10:11 p.m.
Incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina has turned away a strong challenge from former state Rep. Deborah Ross. It was one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races as Democrats sought to regain control of the upper chamber on Tuesday.
The 60-year-old Burr has been in Congress since 1994. Ross is a lawyer and former state director of the ACLU who energized Democrats and hoped to score an upset.
Burr was forced to apologize recently after saying he was surprised that a gun magazine with a photo of Hillary Clinton on the cover hadn't put a bull's-eye over her face. Ross had called the comments "dangerous and irresponsible."
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10 p.m.
Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa won a seventh Senate term and retained a seat his party has held for six decades.
Democrats had been optimistic that their candidate, Patty Judge, could break that winning streak on Tuesday, given her previous elections to statewide office as agriculture secretary and lieutenant governor.
Grassley chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. He's sought to tamp down talk among Republicans about blocking nominees to the Supreme Court if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
Grassley said Republicans "can't just simply stonewall" nominees to the high court, reaffirming the Senate's traditional advise-and-consent role on judicial picks.
The court has had a vacancy for months since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February.
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10 p.m.
Utah's junior senator, Republican Mike Lee, has sailed through his first re-election battle.
Lee is a popular conservative in a state that hasn't elected a Democratic senator in four decades. He was first elected in 2010, propelled by a swell of tea-party voters who helped him oust longtime Republican Sen. Bob Bennett.
Lee earned national attention for his sharp criticism of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Even so, Lee has been floated as a possible Supreme Court pick by Trump. An ally of Texas Sen Ted Cruz, Lee helped spearhead an unsuccessful fight to derail President Barack Obama's health care law that led to the 2013 government shutdown.
Lee was challenged in Tuesday's election by Misty Snow, 31-year-old a transgender woman and grocery store clerk who says she ran because millennial and progressive voices weren't being heard.
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9:55 p.m.
Just moments after securing a fourth term in the U.S. Senate Chuck Schumer began looking forward to gaining even more clout. But he promised Tuesday not to ignore New York.
He told a crowd that even as he's on the cusp of becoming the majority leader in the Senate, "I'll be working for New York as ever because I love New York and it's in my bones."
He also fired up the crowd for Democrat Hillary Clinton. She won the state of New York and its 29 electoral votes.
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9:33 p.m.
Twelve-term Republican Rep. John Mica has been bested by Democrat Stephanie Murphy in a district that has gained more Democratic voters in recent years.
Mica hadn't had a strong Democratic opponent since being elected in 1992. But redrawn congressional maps made his central Florida district more competitive, and Democrats pumped money into the race.
Going into Tuesday's election, Republicans held a 247-188 advantage in the House of Representatives, including three vacancies. Democrats need a net gain of 30 seats to capture control of the House.
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9:19 p.m.
Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson has won a third term against Democrat Jim Barksdale and Libertarian Allen Buckley.
Isakson, a conservative, has criticized some of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's remarks while saying he will support the GOP ticket.
Barksdale, who owns an Atlanta investment firm, gave $3.5 million toward his first political campaign, but struggled to gain momentum against Isakson, the state's senior senator and chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee.
Buckley's presence on the ballot complicated the race. Under state law, Isakson needed at least 50 percent of the vote Tuesday to avoid a January runoff election.
9:15 p.m.
Republican Eric Holcomb has won the governor's race in Indiana and Democrat Jim Justice has won the governor's race in West Virginia.
Holcomb defeated Democrat John Gregg in Tuesday's election and will succeed Gov. Mike Pence. Pence is presidential candidate Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate.
In West Virginia, Gregg defeated state Senate President Bill Cole.
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9:08 p.m.
Republican Donald Trump has won Arkansas and its six electoral votes.
That brings his electoral vote total in Tuesday's election to 129. Democrat Hillary Clinton has 97.
It takes 270 votes to win the presidency.
The result was expected. Earlier polling showed Trump leading Clinton by double digits in the state where she served as first lady for 12 years while her husband was the governor.
The once reliably blue state has turned red in recent years. Republicans now control all of Arkansas' statewide and federal offices, as well as a majority of seats in both chambers of the state legislature.
Arkansas has backed the Republican candidate for the White House in every election since 1980 — except for years when Bill Clinton was running for president.
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9:05 p.m.
Hopeful Hillary Clinton supporters have gathered on a Brooklyn street corner they expect to be prophetic: The intersection of President and Clinton Streets.
Photos and video posted on social media Tuesday show hundreds of people gathered for a block party where the streets cross.
Organizers have set up a large screen to stream election coverage. A food truck is dispensing tacos to the crowd.
The street signs in the intersection have been an attraction all Election Day for Clinton boosters snapping selfies.
It is just under a mile from Clinton's national campaign headquarters in Brooklyn.
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9:05 p.m.
Polls in Colorado will close at 7 p.m. MST after a judge denied the Colorado Democratic Party's request to extend voting by two hours.
The head of the Colorado Democratic Party argued that voting hours should be extended to account for a 29-minute computer glitch Tuesday afternoon. The statewide glitch affected same-day voter registration and caused some voters to have to cast provisional ballots.
The Secretary of State opposed the extended hours. Deputy Secretary of State Stephanie Staiert says no one was prevented from voting because of the glitch.
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9:01 p.m.
Republican Doug Burgum has won the North Dakota governor's race.
The Fargo businessman and onetime Microsoft Corp. executive was considered a shoo-in in Tuesday's election. He defeated Democrat Marvin Nelson.
The matchup focused on qualifications to lead the socially conservative state amid declining oil and crop revenues.
Burgum has stuck to themes of budget discipline, job creation and opposition to tax increases. Nelson has been highly critical of deep cuts to government agencies and a massive raid on the oil-rich state's savings to make up for a more than $1 billion budget shortfall due to a drop in oil drilling and depressed crude prices
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9 p.m.
Donald Trump has won Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska while Hillary Clinton has won New York and Illinois.
Trump also on Tuesday won two of Nebraska's congressional districts. In the state that awards by congressional district, one remains too close to call.
Trump was awarded Texas' 38 electoral votes, the second-largest prize on the map. He also won six from Kansas, four from his victories in Nebraska and three apiece from Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Clinton was awarded 20 from Illinois and 29 from New York, the state both candidates call home. Trump had declared he would try to win New York but never mounted a serious effort there.
The Republican nominee now has 123 electoral votes. Clinton has 97.
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8:55 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is watching election returns with a collection of close campaign aides and her family in a suite at the Peninsula New York, a luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Aides say the group is snacking on salmon, roasted carrots and fries — along with vegan pizza and crème brulee for former President Bill Clinton, who's careful about his diet. Her granddaughter, Charlotte, is wearing a dress emblazoned with the campaign logo.
Clinton and her husband have also been working on her election night remarks with her speechwriters.
Later Tuesday evening, they'll move to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City for her election night party. It's a building with a glass ceiling — a nod to the historic moment.
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8:51 p.m.
Donald Trump has won Mississippi and its six electoral votes.
That brings his Electoral College total in Tuesday's election to 66, compared with Hillary Clinton's 48.
The outcome was not unexpected. Mississippi has voted for Republicans in every presidential election starting with 1972, with the exception of Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976.
8:40 p.m.
Hillary Clinton has won Rhode Island and its four electoral votes.
That brings her total Tuesday to 48, compared with Donald Trump's 60.
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
Rhode Island has voted for Republicans for president only four times since 1928.
In 2012, President Barack Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the state by about 27 percent.
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8:33 p.m.
Exit polls conducted by Edison Research for national media outlets suggest Hillary Clinton is still struggling with white voters who have put Georgia in the Republican column for every presidential election but one since 1980.
Exit polls in Virginia show Clinton and Republican Donald Trump split white Virginia voters with college degrees. In North Carolina, Trump apparently won a slight majority of college-educated whites. But in Georgia, whites with college degrees sided with Trump by more than 2-to-1.
Among whites with no degree, the gaps were even wider. Trump won about two out of three of those voters in North Carolina and Virginia. In Georgia, he won about four out of five.
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8:27 p.m.
Donald Trump has won Alabama and its nine electoral votes after Sen. Jeff Sessions endorsed the billionaire candidate.
That brings Trump's total in the Electoral College to 60 votes, to Clinton's 44 votes.
It takes 270 votes to win the presidency.
The results continue the state's streak of voting for Republicans every presidential election since 1980.
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8:25 p.m.
A mariachi band has serenaded Donald Trump on the sidewalk outside Trump Tower in New York City.
The group of men in big white sombreros paraded down the sidewalk Tuesday across the street from the skyscraper playing horns and guitars.
The vibrant performance interrupted a mostly low-energy night outside Trump headquarters.
A separate group of about five Trump backers marched along the sidewalk across from the midtown Manhattan hotel where Trump is expected to address supporters later Tuesday night. They chanted, "Lock her up!" as they marched behind police barricades.
A group of enterprising vendors also patrolled the outside of the hotel, selling Trump buttons, shirts and hats.
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8:25 p.m.
Texas authorities say they arrested a man who claimed to be working for Donald Trump for voter fraud.
Phillip Cook, Jr. was arrested after trying to vote for a second time at a polling station in an unincorporated area outside of Houston on Tuesday. Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls says Cook told poll officials and sheriff's deputies that he was helping the Trump campaign and testing election security.
Nehls said Cook was booked on suspicion of a felony charge.
Trump has alleged widespread voter fraud and that there are insufficient safeguards to protect the integrity of the election.
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8:13 p.m.
Donald Trump has won Tennessee and its 11 electoral votes.
Tuesday's vote is the fifth presidential contest in a row in which the state voted for the Republican candidate. That includes the 2000 election, when native son Al Gore lost the state to Republican George W. Bush.
It takes 270 votes to win the presidency.
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8:10 p.m.
An election watchdog says some voters were denied provisional ballots at several polling stations in Atlanta.
Georgia Election Protection coalition spokesman Harold Franklin says poll mangers refused to provide provisional ballots to voters Tuesday. He says the group received reports that voters were given no reason for being refused.
Franklin claims voters who are eligible or entitled to a provisional ballot were denied. He did not know the number of voters who were refused, but said the bulk occurred in Fulton County.
Franklin says he spoke with Fulton County election officials, who he said told polling managers to provide voters with ballots. The Fulton County elections office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Election Protection is organized by the Lawyers Committee for Civils Rights Under Law.
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8:09 p.m.
Donald Trump has won South Carolina.
The Republican nominee was awarded the state's nine electoral votes, giving him 40 for the night. The result was expected as the state has long been a Republican stronghold.
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8:08 p.m.
Democratic Rep. John Carney has won the Delaware governor's race eight years after losing his first bid to become the state's chief executive.
Carney easily defeated Republican state Sen. Colin Bonini of Dover in Tuesday's gubernatorial contest. The victory was driven by voter registration numbers that heavily favor Democrats.
Carney has said job creation and economic development will be among his top priorities, along with improving Delaware's public education system.
He also has acknowledged that the next governor faces significant challenges given troubling revenue expectations and escalating costs for Medicaid and state employee health care.
Carney will succeed Jack Markell, who defeated Carney in the 2008 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Carney previously served as lieutenant governor.
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8:05 p.m.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has written in his father, former Rep. Lawrence Hogan, as his choice to be president.
Doug Mayer, Hogan's spokesman, said Tuesday the Republican governor voted early.
Hogan has been saying for months that he wasn't going to support Republican Donald Trump. He has said he has been extremely disappointed in the candidates from both major parties.
Mayer says the governor decided to write in the name of the person who taught him what it meant to hold public office with integrity.
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8 p.m.
Democrat Hillary Clinton has won Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and the District of Columbia while Republican Donald Trump has captured Oklahoma.
Clinton was awarded Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes, 10 from Maryland, 14 from New Jersey and three each from Delaware and the nation's capital, giving her 44 for the night. Trump picked up seven from Oklahoma, giving him 31.
The results Tuesday were not surprising. Massachusetts and the District of Columbia are two of the nation's safest Democratic strongholds.
The last time Oklahoma went for a Democrat was 1964, when it voted for Lyndon Johnson. Maryland last went for the GOP in 1988.
New Jersey has been a safe Democratic state for 20 years. Its governor, Chris Christie, is a close Trump ally but is saddled with low approval numbers.
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7:45 p.m.
A state official says Democrats have gone to court to extend voting across Colorado by two hours after the secretary of state's voter registration system went down for nearly 30 minutes Tuesday.
Lynn Bartels, a spokeswoman for the secretary of state's office, says the hearing was scheduled for federal court in Denver.
She says state officials are investigating what caused the outage, which forced in-person voters to cast provisional ballots. Some county clerks were unable to process mail ballots that needed to have the signature verified.
Tauna Lockhart, spokeswoman for the state information technology office, says the system came back up about 3:20 p.m. She says the incident is under investigation by state officials, but there is no evidence the network was hit by hackers.
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7:35 p.m.
The North Carolina Board of Elections has agreed to extend voting in eight precincts in Durham County, where Democrats have a 4-to-1 registration advantage over Republicans.
The state board voted 3-2 Tuesday night to extend voting by an hour in two precincts most affected by a computer glitch. The problem forced poll workers to check for registered voters on paper printouts, causing long lines at some locations.
The board says six more precincts can stay open for a shorter time.
The NAACP's North Carolina chapter had asked for the eight precincts to stay open for 90 extra minutes. Hillary Clinton's campaign also supported keeping the polls open later in Durham.
Two groups filed lawsuits seeking to keep the polls open, but a state superior court judge declined to intervene.
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7:32 p.m.
North Carolina got more attention than usual this election, and exit polls show why.
Exit polls conducted by Edison Research for national media outlets suggest a tight finish between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump for the state's 15 electoral votes.
The polls suggest a majority of men back Trump, while Clinton won a majority among women — with the margins essentially even. The polls suggest women made up slightly more of the electorate.
About four out of five nonwhite voters backed Clinton, while about six out of 10 white voters supported Trump. But the exit polls don't offer definitive information about actual turnout among those groups, with the estimates again pointing to a close finish.
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7:30 p.m.
Republican Donald Trump has won West Virginia and its five electoral votes.
The Mountain State was one of the billionaire's biggest supporters in the Republican primary. He is popular for promising to bring back coal jobs. Hillary Clinton had largely been largely shunned for making comments perceived as an affront to the industry.
The dynamic has resulted in one of the few states where Republicans didn't shy from the brash businessman and instead looked to ride his coattails. Many Democrats for congressional and other races scrambled to distance themselves from Clinton and refused to endorse her.
West Virginia has voted for Republican presidential candidates in each of the last four presidential races.
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
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7:15 p.m.
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams says he has found no evidence of fraud or intimidation at the city's polls despite Republican candidate Donald Trump's warnings about voter fraud.
Williams says no major problems have emerged among the 68 complaints his office investigated during the first half of Election Day.
Meantime, several Pennsylvania counties are reporting a handful of complaints about touchscreen machines switching votes. They say the machines are quickly being re-calibrated to fix the problem.
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes says the GOP reported problems with about 25 machines, out of nearly 24,000 deployed statewide. He says in all cases votes ended up being recorded correctly.
State GOP Chairman Rob Gleason says he doesn't see anything "nefarious" in the apparent vote switching on older machines.
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7 p.m.
Republican Donald Trump has won Kentucky and Indiana while Democrat Hillary Clinton has won Vermont.
Trump was awarded Kentucky's eight electoral votes and Indiana's 11. Vermont gives Clinton three. These are the first states to be decided Tuesday in the 2016 general election.
The wins were expected.
Vermont has voted for a Democrat every election since 1988, while Kentucky has gone Republican every cycle since 2000.
Indiana is normally a Republican stronghold but went for President Barack Obama in 2008. The Republicans captured it again in 2012 and Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, is the state's governor.
The winning candidate needs 270 electoral votes.
