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When do voting locations close across the U.S. on Election Day?
How late can you cast your vote in the U.S.?
Here’s a state-by-state breakdown of when various polling places will close, but you should also contact your state or local election office for the most up-to-date information and site-specific hours.
6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST): Parts of Indiana and Kentucky.
7 p.m. EST: Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, and Vermont, as well as western parts of Indiana and Kentucky. Parts of Alabama, Florida, and New Hampshire also close at this hour.
7:30 p.m. EST: North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. Parts of New Hampshire.
8 p.m. EST: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C.
Partial closures in Florida, Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, North and South Dakota, and Texas.
8:30 p.m. EST: Arkansas.
9 p.m. EST: Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Partial closures in Kansas, North and South Dakota, and Texas.
10 p.m. EST: Montana, Nevada, Utah. Partial closures in Idaho and Oregon.
11 p.m. EST:
California and Washington. Partial closures in Idaho and Oregon.
12 a.m. EST: Hawaii. Partial closures in Alaska.
1 a.m. EST: Partial closures in Alaska.
*The states split between multiple time zones include Idaho and Oregon, divided between Mountain and Pacific Time; Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee, split between Eastern time and Central time; and Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Texas, divided between Central and Mountain times. Alaska, for its part, is split between the Hawaii-Aleutian time zone and the Alaska time zone.
