America goes to the polls this morning to decide the winner of the most divisive election in modern history.

After a bruising 18-month election cycle, we will know within hours whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States.

Voting began in the early hours of this morning in New Hampshire, where the village of Dixville Notch became the first in the nation to declare shortly after midnight local time. Mrs Clinton secured the first confirmed scalp - however tiny - with four of the village's eight adults voting for her. Mr Trump got two votes, with Gary Johnson, the Libertarian and Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP candidate, one apiece.

The final, frenzied hours of campaigning saw stars galore and mad dashes to key swing states - including, notably, Michigan, which Democrats have conceded they might lose.