President Barack Obama will regain his seat in the White House after receiving 274 electoral votes just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday night. Each president only needed 270 of the 538 electoral college votes to secure the win.

Mitt Romney claimed his first battleground prize of the night in North Carolina. The president scored a big win in Pennsylvania, a vital battleground where Romney made a late play for support. Obama also walked away with a win in the swing states of New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Michigan, Fox News projects.

The rest of the big swing states where polls have closed -- Nevada, Iowa, Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Virginia -- were all too close to call by the time of the projected win.

Romney was the winner in Utah, Montana, Arizona, Missouri, Idaho, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, West Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana and Kentucky.

Obama was the winner in his home state of Illinois, California, Hawaii, Washington, Minnesota, New Mexico, Maine, New York, Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and the District of Columbia.

The debate still stands, however, that if Governor Romney wins the popular vote, should the win be contested? The United States presidential elections are weighed based not on the national popular vote but on the electoral votes from each state in the union. When people vote in their state for President and Vice President, they are actually voting for the electors for that candidate's party.