Jubilant Democrats take to streets to celebrate Joe Biden's election victory

People dance in celebration outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg after Democrat Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to become 46th president of the United States. Picture: Julio Cortez/AP

They gathered on street corners and front lawns — honking horns, banging pots and pans, and starting impromptu dance parties — as a vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end.

Just after news organisations declared that former vice president Joe Biden beat president Donald Trump, fireworks erupted in Atlanta.