Republican road to the White House
Donald Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in New York while Hillary Clinton has triumphed in the Democratic race.
With the majority of votes counted, Mr
Trump looks set to extend his lead over rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich.
Meanwhile Democratic hopeful Mrs
Clinton, a former senator for New York, is on course for a victory over
Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders.
Wins will put Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump
closer to securing their nominations.
With more than 98% of the results in, Mr
Trump is leading with just over 60% of the vote while Mrs Clinton has just
under 58%.
A new-look Trump has a
chance - by Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
Donald Trump needed a commanding
victory, and he got it. Although the results in the state's 29 congressional
districts - which allocate three convention delegates apiece - have yet to be
finalised, it appears likely that Mr Trump will claim the lion's share of the
95 delegates at play.
Perhaps even more importantly, however,
is the new, restrained Donald Trump on the campaign trail in the past few days.
Gone are the incendiary tweets bashing his opponents (and their spouses).
Instead on Tuesday night the candidate gave a short speech hammering home his
economic message, emphasising his delegate and vote lead, and laying the
groundwork to argue that he should be the party's nominee even if he doesn't
win the 1,237 delegates necessary to claim the nomination outright.
Mr Trump recently brought in several
experienced political hands to manage his campaign after a turbulent few weeks.
If this new demeanour is part of the change they have inspired, Mr Trump could
prove to be a more formidable opponent not just at the ballot box in upcoming
primaries but in the contest to win over those in the party still deeply
suspicious of his candidacy.
"Tomorrow, we go back to
work," Mr Trump said during his victory speech. It was a very
un-Trump-like line - and something that should have his opponents very
concerned.
Claiming her win, Mrs Clinton told
supporters her campaign for the nomination was "in the home stretch and
victory is in sight".
"New Yorkers, you've always had my
back and I've always tried to have yours," she said. "Today together
we did it again and I am deeply, deeply grateful."
It has been a fierce campaign in the
state, with the leading candidates using their local ties to attract voters.
The Democratic campaign has turned
increasingly negative, with Mrs Clinton and Mr Sanders trading barbs about
their qualifications.
But following the latest result in the
race for the Democratic nomination, Mrs Clinton said there was "much more
that unites us than divides us".
New York presidential
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The two front-runners for both parties
cast their own votes in New York on Tuesday. Mr Trump cast his ballot at
Central Synagogue in Manhattan in the morning, while Mrs Clinton voted with her
husband, former President Bill Clinton, near their home in the suburb of
Chappaqua.
They are the last presidential
candidates to vote in the primary contest. Mr Sanders voted in his home state
of Vermont in March, while Republican challengers Mr Cruz and Mr Kasich went to
the polls in Texas and Ohio.
The voting in New York was marred by
widespread complaints of irregularities, including more than 125,000 people
missing from New York City voter rolls. The city's chief auditing officer,
Scott Stringer, ordered a review of the city's Board of Elections (BOE) over
what he called "chaotic and inefficient" organisation.
Although Mr Trump was sweeping to
victory across most of the state, Ohio Governor Mr Kasich, otherwise in a
distant second place, was leading in his home borough of Manhattan.
US media reaction
§ Donald Trump's win will shift the momentum away from the anti-Trump
movement and back to the brash businessman, the New York Daily News says
§ In her home state, Hillary Clinton seemed relaxed for the first time in a
"rocky and unpredictable Democratic race," according to the New York Times
§ A series of distractions in the lead-up to the New York vote meant Bernie
Sanders never came close to pulling off the upset victory he had predicted,Politico says
§ Republican contender John Kasich's second-place showing in New York
bolsters his argument that he - rather than Ted Cruz - would be most likely to
beat Donald Trump in a contested convention, the Washington Post argues
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