Clinton nudges ahead in polls race

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The former First Lady will win delegate-rich California, CNN television projected, as the pair split the Democratic Party vote across more than 20 states which went to the polls.

In the Republican contest, John McCain, whose campaign was dismissed as virtually over last summer, declared himself to be the party's front-runner for the nomination after a series of victories in key winner-take-all states.

Clinton campaign aides declared her victory in Massachusetts as "one of the biggest surprises of the night".

She took the state even after veteran Senator Ted Kennedy, former Democratic Party presidential nominee John Kerry and state governor Deval Patrick had endorsed Mr Obama.

Mrs Clinton, who wants to be America's first female president, also won her home state of New York, neighbouring New Jersey and secured comfortable victories in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas.

Mr Obama, who wants to be the first African American president, built on his landslide victory in South Carolina as he won the Southern states of Georgia and Alabama.

The Illinois senator also won his delegate-rich home state, Kansas, Delaware, North Dakota, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Idaho and Utah.

At the Clinton campaign headquarters in Manhattan, Mrs Clinton took to the stage with her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and daughter Chelsea to chants of "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary."

Mrs Clinton, who wants to be the first female president, said Americans voted "not just to make history but to remake America". She added: "Give us this nation to heal, this world to lead, this moment to seize. I know we're ready."