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President Barack Obama has retained the White House and has defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The results was projected just before 11:30 p.m. ET by several U.S. outlets including CNN, NBC, CBS and The New York Times.

“Four more years,” Obama was the simple message on Obama’s official twitter account.

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Obama defeated Romney in a series of key swing states despite a weak economic recovery and persistent high unemployment as U.S. voters decided between two starkly different visions for the country.

Obama’s narrow wins in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire — all states that Romney had contested — effectively ended Romney’s hopes of capturing the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the White House.

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Obama’s victory in the hotly contested swing state of Ohio — as projected by TV networks — put him over the top in the fight for the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch the White House and ended Romney’s hopes of pulling off a string of swing-state upsets.