In the lead-up to the election, much of the focus was on the seven swing states where either presidential candidate stood a chance of winning.

Let’s have a look at just how close the votes ended up in these battleground states, with the caveat that counting hasn’t yet finished in Arizona. In the other six, Trump triumphed with varying margins.

Wisconsin – the state that finally tipped the scales in Trump’s favour to give him at least 270 electoral college votes to win the election – has the smallest vote margin of just 0.8 of a percentage point (Trump 49.6%, Harris 48.8%).

Michigan was the next closest race with 1.4 points separating the two (Trump 49.7%, Harris 48.3%) followed closely by the Keystone State of Pennsylvania on a margin of 2 (Trump 50.5%, Harris 48.5%).

Georgia, which Biden won by 13,000 votes in 2020, flipped Republican with a margin of 2.2 percentage points (Trump 50.7%, Harris 48.5%).

North Carolina, where Trump held his first rally after an assassination attempt in July, saw a margin of 3.3 (Trump 51%, Harris 47.7%), with Nevada in similar territory on 3.4 (Trump 50.8%, Harris 47.4%)

In Arizona, where about 77% of the vote has been counted, the tally is currently leaning Trump who has 52.5% of the vote, with Harris on 46.6%.