Hillary Clinton is the winner of the third and final presidential debate, according to voters in the first opinion poll of the night.
The survey, conducted by CNN, found that 52 per cent of voters believe Ms Clinton won the 90-minute debate on Wednesday night compared to 39 per cent of participants who said that her rival Donald Trump won the contest.
Ms Clinton has now been declared the winner of all three televised debates by the CNN poll.
Democrats accounted for 36 per cent of voters and 29 per cent Republican. The survey carried a plus or minus 4 per cent margin of error. Sixty per cent of debate watchers said that Mr Trump spent the majority of the debate attacking Ms Clinton.
The debate comes after nine women accused the Republican candidate of sexual assault over the course of 10 days. Mr Trump interrupted Ms Clinton on several occasions over the night and said she was "such a nasty woman.”
Despite losing the people’s vote, Mr Trump did outperformed expectations of voters as nearly six in 10 viewers said he did better than they expected. Forty-four per cent of voters said the same of Ms Clinton.
Mr Trump was widely criticised for refusing to say if he’ll accept the final election results after voters hit polling booths on November 8. The Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus broke away from his party’s candidate’s comments and asserted told reporters that Mr Trump will accept the elections final results.
