Historic first for Spanberger after considered campaign against Trump

Democrat becomes first female governor in Virginia's history and placed focus on living costs and public service

Virginia has had 74 governors over two and a half centuries. All were men. On Tuesday Abigail Spanberger smashed the state's glass ceiling by winning election as the first female governor in its history.

The former US congresswoman and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer won with a campaign emphasising cost-of-living issues and carefully targeting Donald Trump's policies rather than the president himself.