Daniel Wolfram
An hour-by-hour schedule of state closing times across the country, plus benchmarks on how fast the ballots were counted in 2024.
Election Day has arrived! All throughout the day, tens of millions of Americans will cast their ballots in all 50 states. Many people across the country and the world are anxiously anticipating how the next two years of American politics will shape up.
But when do the polls close? And when are the results expected to come in? Here are the times when the polls close tonight, and when 90% of the votes were fully counted back in 2024. All times are in the Eastern Time Zone (ET).
7:00 pm:
Georgia (90% of the votes were counted 10.30 p.m. in 2024)
Indiana (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 a.m. at midnight in 2024)
Kentucky (90% of the votes were counted 10.00 p.m. in 2024)
South Carolina (90% of the votes were counted 11.00 p.m. in 2024)
Vermont (90% of the votes were counted 11.00 p.m. in 2024)
Virginia (90% of the votes were counted 12.30 a.m. in 2024)
7:30 pm:
North Carolina (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 a.m. in 2024)
Ohio (90% of the votes were counted 10.30 p.m. in 2024)
West Virginia (90% of the votes were counted 11.00 p.m. in 2024)
8:00 pm:
Alabama (90% of the votes were counted 12.30 a.m. at midnight in 2024)
Connecticut (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 p.m. the next day in 2024)
Delaware (90% of the votes were counted 10.00 p.m. in 2024)
District of Columbia (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 p.m. the next day in 2024)
Florida (90% of the votes were counted 8.30 p.m. in 2024)
Illinois (90% of the votes were counted 12.30 a.m. in 2024)
Maine (was not counted until days later in 2024)
Maryland (was not counted until days later in 2024)
Massachusetts (90% of the votes were counted 08.30 a.m. the next day in 2024)
Mississippi (90% of the votes were counted 01.00 a.m. in 2024)
Missouri (90% of the votes were counted 01.00 a.m. in 2024)
New Hampshire (90% of the votes were counted 02.00 a.m. in 2024)
New Jersey (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 a.m. at midnight in 2024)
Oklahoma (90% of the votes were counted 10.30 p.m. in 2024)
Pennsylvania (90% of the votes were counted 01.00 a.m. in 2024)
Rhode Island (90% of the votes were counted 12.30 a.m. in 2024)
Tennessee (90% of the votes were counted 10.30 p.m. in 2024)
8:30 pm:
Arkansas (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 a.m. at midnight in 2024)
9:00 pm:
Arizona (results not released for 1 hour)
Colorado (was not finished counting until days later)
Iowa (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 a.m. in 2024)
Kansas (90% of the votes were counted 01.30 a.m. in 2024)
Louisiana (90% of the votes were counted 11.00 p.m. in 2024)
Michigan (90% of the votes were counted 05.00 a.m. in 2024)
Minnesota (90% of the votes were counted 02.30 a.m. in 2024)
Nebraska (90% of the votes were counted 03.30 a.m. in 2024)
New Mexico (90% of the votes were counted 01.00 a.m. in 2024)
New York (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 a.m. at midnight in 2024)
North Dakota (90% of the votes were counted 12.00 a.m. at midnight in 2024)
South Dakota (90% of the votes were counted 10.30 a.m. the next day in 2024)
Texas (90% of the votes were counted 12.30 a.m. in 2024)
Wisconsin (90% of the votes were counted 03.00 a.m. in 2024)
Wyoming (90% of the votes were counted 03.30 a.m. in 2024)
10:00 pm:
Montana (90% of the votes were counted 11.30 a.m. the next day in 2024)
Nevada (90% of the votes were counted 12.30 p.m. the next day in 2024)
Utah (was not counted until days later in 2024)
11:00 pm:
California (was not counted until days later in 2024)
Idaho (90% of the votes were counted 05.30 a.m. in 2024)
Oregon (was not counted until days later)
Washington (mail ballots due)
12:00 am:
Hawaii (all vote by mail, but voter service centers are open)
1:00 am:
Alaska
It is important to note that the results can take up to several weeks to be announced and there is no fixed time when the races will be called.
For example, Alaska’s results always take 15 extra days to count because of its ranked-choice voting system.
