Now that we know who the 47th president will be, let’s round up the important dates you need to know…

7 November

State election officials are beginning to certify results with astonishing speed. The battleground state deadlines are as follows: Georgia, November 23, Michigan, November 25, North Carolina and Nevada, November 26, Wisconsin, December 1, Arizona, December 2. Pennsylvania does not have an exact date.

25 November

This is the last day a mail ballot can arrive and still be counted as long as it arrives with a Nov. 5 postmark.

Seventeen states and the District of Columbia allow mail ballots to arrive after election day.

26 November

President-elect Donald Trump will be sentenced to prison in New York over the hush money case that found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records.

11 December

The Electoral Count Act stipulates that each state’s governor must certify the results by that date.

Any legal objections must then be completed by December 16.

This is the first election where these rules apply. The law was changed after the attempted insurrection by pro-Trump supporters on January 6.

17 December

In a controversial feature of the U.S. Constitution, the people do not technically elect a president, but rather a group of “electors” who do so on their behalf.

On December 17, these electors will be sent by each state to the Electoral College to vote for a candidate as directed by the people.

Each state has a different number of electoral college votes depending on its population size. In 48 of them, these votes are earned on a winner-take-all basis.

January 6

The incumbent vice president, this time Kamala Harris, performs the ceremonial duty of presiding over a joint session of the House and Senate where all electoral college votes are counted and the winner is announced.

January 20

The president-elect takes the oath of office on the steps of the Capitol during the inauguration ceremony.