In the United States, voting starts today to elect forty-fifth President of the country. Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump spent a busy last campaigning day yesterday racing across a handful of battleground states including Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia that could swing the election.<br/><br/>All 50 states and Washington DC will go to the polls across six different time zones. The US election is a race to secure 270 out of the 538 votes in the electoral college. A record number of Americans, more than 46 million, have voted early by post or at polling stations.

With just hours to go before America goes to the polls today to elect its 45th President, the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remains as close as well. Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held a four percentage point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the Washington Post poll released yesterday.<br/><br/>In a survey of 1,763 likely US voters, 47 per cent said they backed Clinton and 43 per cent said they supported Trump. According to the Washington Post, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. A separate Bloomberg Politics-Selzer & Co poll released earlier showed Clinton with a 3 point lead.