BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Democrat Doug Jones has won the special election over Roy Moore, to fill a Senate seat in Alabama, according to exit polls and returns – a shocking upset in a solidly Republican state, in which massive turnout among African-American voters helped defeat a candidate enthusiastically backed by President Donald Trump.

The Associated Press called the race at 10:23 p.m. Eastern time.

Jones becomes the first Democrat elected to the Senate from Alabama since 1992. The Senate seat came open when Trump chose former Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to become attorney general earlier this year.