The race to the White House is now over and President Obama has been victorious, but how did the electoral map shape out as the night progressed?
At 7 p.m., polls closed in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia.
Republican Challenger Mitt Romney picked up Georgia's 16 electoral votes, Indiana's 11, Kentucky's 8, and South Carolina''s 9.
Obama got Vermont's 3 and Virginia's 13 electoral votes.
After the first polls closed, Romney led Obama 44 - 19 electoral votes.
At 7:30 p.m., North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia begin to close their polling stations.
Ohio's 18 electoral votes are all too important for Obama Romney. Romney must win, according to history, Ohio to secure his place in the White House and history proved right.
Ohio was carried by Obama and Romney picked up West Virginia and North Carolina's 20 electoral votes.
By 8 p.m., polls in half of the states were closed.
At 8 p.m., polls close in Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.
Romney won Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Oklahoma's 43 electoral votes.
Obama racked up 116 electoral votes from Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois (Obama's home state), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts (Romney's home state), Michigan, New Hampshire (Romney's home state), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C.
Although the 100 percent of the precincts in Florida have reported, the race has not been called because it is too close. Less than 50,000 votes separates the candidates.
Arkansas' polls closed at 8:30 p.m and its six electoral votes went to Romney.
Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming's polling stations closed at 9 p.m.
Romney was awarded 82 electoral votes from Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.
Obama got 53 electoral votes from Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York and Wisconsin (GOP VP nominee Paul Ryan's home state).
At 10 p.m., polls closed in Iowa, Montana, Nevada and Utah.
These four states split with Iowa and Nevada giving its 12 electoral votes to Obama and Montana and Utah giving its nine to Romney.
As the polls closed in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state at 11 p.m., it became clearer that Obama would return to the White House for another four years.
Obama carried California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington State's 78 electoral votes.
Idaho's four electoral votes went to Romney. He also got three from Alaska, whose polls closed at 1 a.m.
In the end, Obama was the first to get to 270, winning 303 electoral votes to Romney's 206.
Florida's 29 electoral votes have not been allocated to either candidate.
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