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Michelle Bachelet has become Chile’s first woman president, taking 53.5% of the poll with almost all the votes counted and defeat her rival, conservative businessman Sebastian Pinera.

Ms Bachelet thanked the thousands of enthusiastic supporters who gathered outside her campaign headquarters in the capital, Santiago.
She called on the whole country to work together to solve its problems and repeated her promise to bring more jobs and social justice to Chile.

Ms Bachelet has promised continuity, as head of the coalition which has led Chile for the past 16 years, but has also pledged change.
She has said she is keen to bridge the gap between rich and poor and to give a greater voice to women and indigenous people.

Ms Bachelet, who won 46% of the vote then, went into the run-off ballot leading the opinion polls.
A doctor and a single mother, Ms Bachelet was seen as an unusual choice for the presidency in a country considered one of the most socially conservative in South America.