The Timeline | Making A Difference Poem by michael spangenberg

00: 01 ET (05: 01 GMT, Tuesday 8th)
The first results are announced - Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, Clinton won four votes, while Donald Trump picked up two (The Daily Beast, November 8) .

06: 00 ET (11: 00 GMT)
Polling stations open in east coast states and election day proper underway

18: 00 ET (23: 00 GMT)
The first polls close in Indiana and Kentucky, two traditionally Republican states

19: 00 ET (00: 00 GMT, Wednesday 9th)
Polling stations start to close in the battleground states of battleground states of Florida and Virginia, as well as Georgia, South Carolina and Vermont. The first state projections will be made based on exit polls

19: 30 ET (00: 30 GMT)
Polls close in the traditionally Republican West Virginia, as well as two other swing states: Ohio and North Carolina

20: 00 ET (01: 00 GMT)
Polls close in a host of states. Two of them, Pennsylvania and Michigan, are big target states. Other states where polls close are: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas

21: 00 ET (02: 00 GMT)
Another flurry of activity when polls close in Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Colorado and Wisconsin are both swing states.

22: 00 ET (03: 00 GMT)
Poll closes in two swing states, Iowa and Nevada, plus Arizona, Montana and Utah. Utah could be interesting because Mormon and ex-CIA operative Evan McMullin has polled well.

23: 00 ET (04: 00 GMT)
Earliest possible time the election will be "called" for either candidate by US TV networks. It's also the time the polls close in California, a Democrat state with the most electoral college votes of any state (55) , as well as Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

23: 01 Stocks & bonds rally, the Euro and Mexican Peso will soar, the UK Sterling, yen and gold will sink, betting gamblers win and lose, the bridges of LOVE trump the walls of fear -

Footnote - The Daily Telegraph, US election day and night, November8,2016.