The New York Times’s election night coverage was a wide-ranging affair: live forecasts, an interactive map with real-time updates, an online chat between a handful of political reporters — not to mention more traditional reporting.

But the drama of election night was also conveyed, in retrospect, by the changing headlines that topped The Times’s home page: 13 of them, in all.

The GIF above shows how The Times’s banner headlines evolved between 4 p.m. on Tuesday and 2:50 a.m. Wednesday — from a “Bitter Race,” through a “Stunning Upset,” to an astonishing “Triumph.”