Hundreds of thousands of People will vote in individual within the 2024 election on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Verify the instances that polls open and shut, because the hours fluctuate by state, and 15 states have areas falling into two totally different time zones. States will start reporting election outcomes after their polls shut.
If you’re in line earlier than a website closes, you will have the best to stay in line and vote. View an inventory of voter rights from the ACLU right here.
Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia supply some type of early voting, and eight states together with D.C. enable a vote-by-mail system throughout the board. Greater than 78 million voters solid their ballots early this yr.
What time do the primary polls open on Election Day 2024?
The primary ballot opening instances on the East Coast are in Vermont, the place sure places (however not all) open at 5 a.m. ET. Polling locations in all or components of 5 extra states open at 6 a.m. ET. See a full record under.
Here is when polls open in every state on Election Day:
Oregon is a vote-by-mail state, so it has no in-person polling places.
As early as 5 a.m. ET
- Vermont (Polls open between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. relying in your city. Verify right here to see when your polling website opens)
6 a.m. ET
- Connecticut
- Kentucky (Polling websites within the west open at 7 a.m. ET)
- Maine (Polling places open between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. relying on city inhabitants. Verify right here)
- New Jersey
- New York
- Virginia
6:30 a.m. ET
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- West Virginia
7 a.m. ET
- Alabama
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida (8 a.m. ET in components of the Florida Panhandle on Central time)
- Georgia
- New Hampshire (Opening instances fluctuate by county with the earliest beginning at 7 a.m. ET; verify right here)
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas (Varies by county; verify together with your native election workplace for polling hours)
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan (Polling websites in 4 Higher Peninsula counties open at 8 a.m. ET)
- Missouri
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island (Polls in New Shoreham open at 9 a.m. ET)
- South Carolina
- Wyoming
8 a.m. ET
- Arizona
- Iowa
- Minnesota (Counties with a inhabitants of lower than 500 usually are not required to open till 11 a.m. ET)
- Mississippi
- Oklahoma
- North Dakota (Polls begin opening at 8 a.m. ET and fluctuate by county. Verify right here beneath “County Polling Locations” to see polling hours)
- South Dakota (Polling places within the west open at 9 a.m. ET)
- Tennessee
- Texas (Polling websites in three western counties open at 9 a.m. ET)
- Wisconsin
8:30 a.m. ET
9 a.m. ET
- Colorado
- Montana (Polling websites in counties with lower than 400 registered voters can open as late as 2 p.m. ET)
- Nebraska
- Nevada (Polling websites open at 10 a.m. ET apart from Metropolis Corridor in West Wendover)
- New Mexico
- Utah
10 a.m. ET
- California
- Idaho (Polling places within the north open at 11 a.m. ET)
11 a.m. ET
- Washington (Most voting is finished by mail, so instances fluctuate by county; verify right here)
- Alaska (Polling websites open at 11 a.m. ET apart from Adak)
12 p.m. ET
What time do the primary polls shut on Election Day 2024?
The primary polls to shut on the East Coast are in japanese counties of Indiana and Kentucky, at 6 p.m. ET, then the remainder of these states, in addition to Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia, shut at 7 p.m. ET. See a full record of the scheduled ballot closing instances under.
Here is when polls shut in every state on Election Day:
7 p.m. ET
- Georgia
- Indiana (Polls shut at 6 p.m. ET within the 80 counties in Japanese time zone; discover your polling location right here)
- Kentucky (Polls shut at 6 p.m. ET for the 79 counties within the japanese a part of the state)
- South Carolina
- Vermont
- Virginia
7:30 p.m. ET
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- West Virginia
8 p.m. ET
- Alabama
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida (Polls in Japanese time zone shut at 7 p.m. ET; a part of Panhandle are in Central time zone)
- Illinois
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- New Hampshire (Polling hours fluctuate by municipality and are listed by location right here)
- New Jersey
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
8:30 p.m. ET
9 p.m. ET
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Iowa
- Kansas (Polling places shut at 8 p.m. ET in all besides 4 counties within the west)
- Louisiana
- Michigan (Polling places shut at 8 p.m. ET in all besides 4 counties)
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Dakota (Polls shut at 8 p.m. ET in all however eight counties)
- South Dakota (Polls shut at 8 p.m. ET within the east)
- Texas (Polls shut at 8 p.m. ET for a lot of the state besides three counties within the west)
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
10 p.m. ET
- Montana
- Nevada (The polling location at Metropolis Corridor in West Wendover closes at 9 p.m. ET)
- Utah
11 p.m. ET
- California
- Idaho (Polling places within the south shut at 10 p.m. ET)
- Oregon (Polling places in Malheur County shut at 10 p.m. ET)
- Washington
12 a.m. ET
1 a.m. ET
- Alaska (Polling places shut at 12 a.m. apart from Adak)
