How viewers in Malta can follow US election live coverage

All Malta times

11.00pm – Live coverage begins on Sky News, CNN, Italian TV stations and other major channels. You can also follow live coverage on all major news websites, including CNN, Sky News, BBC, ABC News, Fox News, MSNBC, Bloomberg, etc.

Midnight – Polls close in the first of America’s 50 states – the safe Republican seat of Indiana.

1.00am – Polls start to close in states across the east coast of America.

The biggest ones at this stage are the crucial battlegrounds of Florida, New Hampshire and possibly Virginia – although they may be so close that results could be some hours away.

But expect US TV networks to start to call the safest states like Kentucky (Republicans) and Vermont (Democrats).

1.30am – Polls close in two more crucial Eastern battlegrounds – Ohio and North Carolina. Again, results may be an hour or two away yet.

But Trump needs both of these states to win, so if US networks call either state for Hillary at this early stage she should be in for a great night.

2.00am – The night heats up as polls close in the big rust-belt states of Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Donald Trump really needs a breakthrough in one of these two Democrat areas if he is to win the White House.

If the US networks call either one for Trump he has a fighting chance – but if they are too close to call we could be in for a long night.

In 2008, networks handed Pennsylvania to Barack Obama the minute the polls closed, and his rival John McCain knew the game was up.

3.00am – Don’t go to bed yet! Polls are now closing across the mid-West and there are some big battlegrounds out there too.

The ones to watch out for are Colorado and New Mexico – states which Donald Trump hopes to win back from the Democrats.

Voting also ends in Arizona, which Trump needs to hold.

4.00am – Voting closes in the last of the swing states, and as earlier battlegrounds also begin to be called we should have a good idea who is going to win the White House.

Polls close at this time in Nevada and Iowa – two Democrat states which Trump has targeted – and Utah, where Donald needs to hold off a strong challenge from third-party candidate Evan McMullin.

5.00am – Polls close in the last big states along the west coast including California, Oregon and Washington State.

Unless the race is incredibly tight we can expect the networks to start calling the next President of the United States around now.

Barack Obama was named President at this time in 2008, and at 3.17am in 2012.

6.00am – Polls close in Hawaii, but by now all eyes should be on somebody making a victory speech.

7.00am – Polls close in Alaska. It is unlikely to make any difference.