2026 general election

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. This page explains how election night works and links to the official source for every state. VoterIQ does not call races: every count on this desk links to the state that runs it.

Official results sites When polls close

Polling places

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Based on each state's posted closing times.

Source: Election Day date: 2 U.S.C. § 7Federal statute

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Results board

Unofficial counts for the 2026 general election, read from state election offices, with Wikipedia where no state feed could be read. Reporting text is shown as each source publishes it.

Unofficial count, not calls

Count differs from projection

Gap is the points between the top two candidates in the count. Reporting means different things by state and is not the share of the vote counted. A winner appears only when a named source calls the race or the state certifies it.

Past presidential elections

Certified results stay in the archive, by state and, for recent cycles, by county.

How election night works

01Polls do not close at the same time. The first polls close at 6:00 p.m. Eastern and the last close after midnight Eastern, because states span several time zones and a few states have two. See when polls close.
02Anyone in line when polls close is allowed to vote in most states, so counting can start later than the posted closing time in busy places.
03States count in person ballots, early ballots and mail ballots on different schedules. Some report early and mail ballots first, others report them last, so early totals can shift as more ballots are counted.
04Results reported on election night are unofficial. They are totals that counties have sent to the state so far, not final counts.
05Each state sets its own timeline for counting remaining ballots, checking the count and certifying the final result. The deadline comes from that state, not from the media or from VoterIQ.

Source: State election offices, listed on the official results sites pageGeneral description of state practice

What VoterIQ does and does not do

VoterIQ does not call races and does not show projections. The authority on results is each state and county election office, and VoterIQ links to those official sources. Live results live at the official source and are not copied here.

Looking for your own ballot first? Open your ballot. For federal election rules, see USAGov: election results.

Elsewhere on the desk

Maps and tools for before and after the count.