Incumbent US President Barack Obama is receiving the 274 votes that are necessary to win the presidential elections, CNN reports. 

And once the voting results were announced, Obama thanked the voters on Twitter.

To note, a US presidential nominee must receive at least 270 of the 538 votes to win the elections.

The American media holdings CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS, and АР are taking part in the vote counting, and the data they announce are de facto considered as the voting’s preliminary results, based upon which the election winner is announced.