Joe Biden supporters can be heard cheering in New York as news networks begin calling the election in his favour. A video taken from a skyscraper shows people whooping and cheering, while others appear to be ringing bells to mark the historic moment.
The Democrat went over the magic 270 electoral college votes as Pennsylvania was called in his favour just moments ago. Mr Biden won 55% of the vote in New York and will now be the 46th President of the United States.
The news came that the former Vice President had defeated Donald Trump as vote counting rolled into a fifth day. In the end, Biden's route to victory was by flipping back the 'rust belt' industrial states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania which Trump won by slim margins in
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