Dixville Notch: Joe Biden wins unanimously in the first town to announce 2020 presidential election results

Joe Biden has won the first town in the United States to count its votes, in a unanimous vote.

Donald Trump did not get a single vote in the tiny village of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, as they held their election day at midnight.

Mr Biden got all five votes cast in the town.

Twelve people live in Dixville Notch, which holds their voting event at midnight and reveals the vote count immediately after.

Last time after, Dixville Notch voted for Hillary Clinton, with four votes. Mr Trump got two votes that year, with a single ballot cast for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.

The town is far from predicative of the final result.

But it does not bode well for Mr Trump that he lost all of his support in this one town, which is located in one of 2016's closest states.

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The early-hours voting tradition has held in primary and general elections since 1960, despite the municipality's dwindling population and a brief question of how it would hold its February primary after the town's selectman moved away, meaning no one was available to help administer the election.

Fortunately for the political junkies who have taken to Dixville Notch, that position was filled and the tradition continues for its 60th year.

Things were looking better for Mr Trump in Millsfield, which is slightly larger than Dixville Notch, and announced their results soon after.

The president won in a comparative landslide, by a 16-5 margin over Mr Biden.

Mr Biden has done one vote better than his 2016 predecessor Hillary Clinton, who lost the town 16-4. A voter four years ago cast a ballot for Bernie Sanders as a protest vote.

Another town famed for its midnight vote, Hart's Location, rescheduled the event in favour of a daytime vote for coronavirus social distancing reasons.

Key times (AEDT) to watch for during the US election:

11am - Most of Florida closes, and Georgia closes too.

12 noon - all of Florida closes. Watch for results in the Panhandle. If there is a swing back to Biden, this could be a big indicator.

2pm - pretty much all other important states will have closed and counting will begin.

Some states, such as Florida and Ohio, allow this process to start weeks before election day, so the votes are ready to be counted.

Other states, such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, don't allow early votes to be processed until polling day.

Those crucial counts could take days.