Election Night
Results of the November 3 election as each state's own election office posts them, with the time on every number. Minnesota at every level, from the governor to the school board, and every state's races for Congress, governor and the other statewide offices.
See the votes as each state counts them. Each number shows when the state posted it. Minnesota is covered all the way down to school boards.
Official counts only.Every number with its time.No race is called.Forecasts labelled Analysis.
Election Day is November 3, 2026. The first polls close at , in Indiana and Kentucky.
Polls are still open in some states. If you haven’t voted, your vote still counts.
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Where to go
The results, the coverage and the forecasts each have their own page, and Minnesota has one for every race on its ballot. The figures come in on the night; until then the pages show the races and who is on the ballot.
Pick a door. The vote counts start on election night. Until then you can see the races.
Every state's races for Congress, governor and the other statewide offices on one map, with each state's count as its election office posts it. Where a state publishes no live count, the page links to its own results.
See every state's big races on one map. The numbers come from each state.
Every race on Minnesota's ballot, precinct by precinct on one map: statewide, the Legislature, courts, counties, cities, townships and school districts. Use your location to see your own ballot's results.
Every race in Minnesota, down to your precinct. Find your own ballot on the map.
Headlines from news organizations, with links, and posts from election offices and candidates' official accounts. Everyone else is counted, never shown or named. A leaderboard shows which races draw the most coverage for their size.
See news headlines about each race. Posts from regular people are only counted, never shown.
Each race's chances and likely range of votes from a computer model, labelled Analysis, with its inputs, every run kept, and a record of how it did. The official count decides.
A computer guesses each race's result and shows how sure it is. It is a guess. The vote count decides.
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FactFrom each state's law or election office
No state releases results before its polls close. Here is when that happens on November 3, from first to last. 14 states span two time zones, so their counties close at different moments where the law sets the same clock time. Anyone in line when the polls close may still vote.
No state shows results before its polls close. This list shows when each state closes. If you are in line at closing time, you can still vote.
| Polls close | Where |
|---|---|
| Indiana: Eastern timeKentucky: Eastern time | |
| Florida: Eastern timeGeorgiaIndiana: Central time, twelve counties in the northwest and the southwest cornersKentucky: Central time, western KentuckyNew Hampshire (some places stay open up to an hour later)South CarolinaVermontVirginia | |
| North CarolinaOhioWest Virginia | |
| AlabamaConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFlorida: Central time, the western Panhandle, west of the Apalachicola RiverIllinoisKansas (some places stay open up to an hour later)MaineMarylandMassachusettsMichigan: Eastern timeMississippiMissouriNew JerseyNorth Dakota: Central time (some places stay open up to two hours later)OklahomaPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth Dakota: Central timeTennesseeTexas: Central time | |
| Arkansas | |
| ArizonaColoradoIowaLouisianaMichigan: Central time, four counties of the Upper Peninsula on the Wisconsin lineMinnesotaNebraskaNevada: Mountain time, the City of West Wendover, in Elko CountyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth Dakota: Mountain time, the southwest (some places stay open up to two hours later)South Dakota: Mountain time, west of the Missouri River, roughlyTexas: Mountain time, far West TexasWisconsinWyoming | |
| Idaho: Mountain timeMontanaNevada: Pacific timeOregon: Mountain time, most of Malheur County (mail ballots due)Utah | |
| CaliforniaIdaho: Pacific time, northern Idaho, north of the Salmon RiverOregon: Pacific time (mail ballots due)Washington (mail ballots due) | |
| Alaska: Alaska timeHawaii | |
| Alaska: Hawaii-Aleutian time, the Aleutian Islands west of 169 degrees 30 minutes west |
Times are in Central Standard Time. Daylight time ends on November 1.
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Before you go
Each state keeps its own lookup of where to vote. Choose your state and you go straight to it. This site does not see what you type there.
Pick your state. You go to your state's own page to find where you vote.
Each choice opens the state's own page. The National Association of Secretaries of State also keeps a guide: NASS: Can I Vote.
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What is read live, and how
25 states and the District of Columbia publish a live count this site reads as it comes in, and seven more can be read with care. Minnesota's figures come from the Secretary of State's results files, saved through the night, and Oklahoma's from the files its election office posts for export, saved by hand. For the other 16, the page links to the state's own results and adds the official totals when the state certifies them. The pages look for new figures every few minutes, and a figure usually appears here 10 to 20 minutes after the state posts it.
Some states share their count as it comes in, and this site reads it. For the rest, we link to the state's own page. New numbers show up here within about 20 minutes.
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The rules this space keeps
Every page of Election Night keeps these rules, on the night and after it.
Every page here keeps these rules.
Every result comes from the state's own election office, with the time the state gave it, and says it is not final until the state certifies it.
Every number comes from the state. Each one shows when it was posted.
A candidate is ahead in the count so far until the result is certified. The site never says projected, called or won before then.
We never say who won until the state says so.
A forecast is a model's estimate with a range, its inputs and its track record, and it is labelled Analysis everywhere it appears.
A forecast is a guess. It is always marked as one.
The feed shows a headline, the outlet, the time and a link. It never copies a story.
We show news headlines with links. We do not copy stories.
Posts are shown only from news organizations, election offices and candidates' official accounts. Everyone else is counted, never shown or named.
We never show or name regular people. We only count their posts.
Red and blue are used for party data and for nothing else. Everything else is brass and green.
Red and blue only ever mean a party.
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On the way in
The first time each visit that you head into Election Night, you sit for ten seconds on the deck of a cabin in the Rockies under the night sky. To stay out there as long as you like, choose Stay and watch the sky, beside Skip, or come back any time with Sit on the deck, near the top of this page: you can look all around, and the sky turns as the real one does. The stars, the planets and the Milky Way are where they stand over you, worked out on your device from its clock and from the place this site keeps there, or else your time zone, and nothing is sent anywhere. By day it is tonight's sky, after dark. The moon is placed for the scene: tonight's crescent when there is one, otherwise a young crescent, always in view and drawn about two and a half times its true size so the crescent shows on a screen. The meteors come from the shower active on your date, or the nearest major one; a real shower shows a meteor or two a minute at best, so these ten seconds hold far more. Any key, click or tap skips it, and with Motion off it is one still picture.
The first time you come here on a visit, you sit under the night sky for ten seconds. To stay as long as you like, choose Stay and watch the sky. Or use Sit on the deck, near the top of this page. The stars are where they are over you. Your device works that out, and nothing is sent. The moon is put in the picture so you can see it. Real meteors are rarer than this. Any key or tap skips it.
Only from each state's own election office, as it posts them, each with its time. Minnesota's come from the Secretary of State's results files. Where a state publishes no live count this site may read, the page links to the state's own results and adds the official totals when the state certifies them.
No. A candidate is “ahead in the count so far” until the state certifies the result. Forecasts are a computer model's estimate, labelled Analysis, with a range and a track record. The official count decides.
The pages look for new figures every few minutes. A figure usually reaches this site 10 to 20 minutes after the state posts it, and every number carries the time the state gave it.
No page here counts visits. Times are shown in your own time zone, worked out on your device. Where a page offers “Use my location”, your place is worked out on your device and is not sent anywhere.
It is here to open this guide, which changes with the page you are on. Every companion gives the same help. It never speaks on its own, and screen readers pass over it. Help stays in the top bar either way.
Kept on this device only. Nothing is sent anywhere. Turn on as many as help: they combine. Where two differ, the larger text, the more space, the less motion and the quieter companion win. Otherwise the one you chose last wins.