Of the votes counted so far, the French interior ministry says, external

• Emmanuel Macron has 18,626,682 votes - 64.59%
• Marine Le Pen has 10,210,829 votes - 35.41%
• 2,8386,288 cast blank votes
• 1,013,685 spoilt their ballots
• And another 10,784,691 voters abstained in the areas that have declared results

The UK's Daily Telegraph says Macron's win puts a "cloud over Brexit".

It references his remark during the campaign that Brexit would be "no walk in the park" as well as Angela Merkel's comment that his victory is a triumph for a "strong and united Europe".

In the week before his inauguration, the president-elect will be working hard to put together a team. As a newcomer with no organised party behind him, he will have to draw on the eclectic mix of centre-right and centre-left figures who backed him during the campaign.

Find out here about his next challenges, especially in preparing for legislative elections in June. He is fielding candidates across France, but putting together a parliamentary majority could be a tall order. A poll released on Sunday night suggests, external that 61% of voters do not want him to get an absolute majority.

This reflects the fact that he was backed by less than a quarter of the electorate in the first round: he was not the first choice of most of those who backed him in the second.

"Congratulations @EmmanuelMacron! Let's get together very quickly and continue to strengthen the fraternal links between Canada and France," tweeted Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister. 

Mr Trudeau, at 45, is also one of the world's youngest leaders.

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Here is the climax of Macron's victory speech at the Louvre:

A crushing win for Macron in the southwestern city of Bordeaux, where he got almost 86% of the vote.

We mentioned it a few minutes ago. But it has to be one of the stories of the night.There can only be one winner, and Marine Le Pen is dancing away the heartbreak. 

Check out her moves.

Alain Juppé, a centre-right former prime minister, tells the BBC: "Mr Macron won a great victory with a large figure and I congratulate him and I wish to him good luck for the next years. I want also to underline the score of the National Front: it’s not a success for Madame Le Pen but her score is very high and so it’s for us a signal and we have to be attentive to what the people who voted for her wanted to say."

The Labour leader, facing an election in the UK next month, tweeted initially only that he was delighted that Le Pen had lost.

A few hours later, he congratulated the winner.

The election winner has given an impassioned speech to supporters at the Louvre in Paris, telling them repeatedly that he will serve them before calling out "Vive la France!" 

 He was then joined on stage by his wife Brigitte Trogneux.

The results show the extent of Emmanuel Macron's national sweep to victory.

Not all the results are in, but Macron areas are in yellow, and only a handful of areas are coloured in grey for Le Pen.

During the evening we have brought you details of "anti-capitalist" demonstrators clashing with police in part of Paris. AFP reports incidents involving some 450 protesters in the western city of Nantes; around 300 protesters gathered in Lyon too.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo tweets that nine out of 10 voters in the French capital backed Emmanuel Macron "and only 10% backed the extreme right - proud of Parisians!"

Amid all the euphoria, it is worth remembering a story that surfaced late on Friday, as France was about to go into campaign silence.

AFP news agency reported on Sunday that Paris prosecutors had opened an investigation into the leak of thousands of internal files from the Macron campaign team.

The Macron team complained of a “massive co-ordinated” attempt to destabilise its campaign. Those behind the leak had added false documents to genuine ones, they said. The leak came minutes before strict laws came into force banning all campaign statements. Even so, National Front vice-president Florian Philippot managed to publish a tweet minutes before the back-out, highlighting the leak.

France's president-elect addresses Le Pen voters at his victory party in Paris, saying he will do his utmost to make sure they will have "no reason to vote for extremism ever again".  

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As Macron tells supporters: "I know what I owe to the people close to me", the crowd shouts out his wife's name: "Brigitte, Brigitte!"  

Mrs Macron, who is 24 years his senior and has been by his side throughout the campaign, appears on stage moments later.

Addressing an estimated 15,000 supporters, the next president turns on the rhetoric. 

"The task that awaits us my fellow citizens is immense and starts tomorrow. 

It requires that we moralise public life, defend our democratic vitality, reinforce our economy, construct new protection from the world that surrounds us, and give a place to everyone to rebuild our Europe and guarantee the security of all French people."

Journalist Alexandre Malesson, external has caught National Front candidate Marine Le Pen dancing following her defeat in the election.

Macron tells those who voted for him simply to block Le Pen: "I know it's not a blank cheque. I will protect the Republic."