Poll Closing Times
My guess is that we will know shortly after 9 pm Eastern whether or not the House stays Republican. With two key contests in the West, we may have to wait for the Senate news until midnight if things are close.
Here’s a table showing the seats, as they will come up by poll closing.
| POLLS CLOSE [EST] |
HOUSE RACES |
SENATE RACES |
| 6:00 pm | 15 | 1 |
| 7:00 pm | 33 | 2 |
| 7:30 pm | 34 | 2 |
| 8:00 pm | 189 | 14 |
| 8:30 pm | 4 | 0 |
| 6 pm local (PST & MST) |
14 | 1 |
| 9:00 pm | 76 | 8 |
| 10:00 pm | 14 | 3 |
| 11:00 pm | 55 | 2 |
| Midnight | 1 | 0 |
| 435 | 33 |
Here are the poll closing times. I’ve added the number of House races in parens.
6 p.m. Eastern/ 5 p.m. Central / 4 p.m. Mountain/ 3 p.m. Pacific
Indiana [9]
Kentucky [6]
7 p.m. Eastern/ 6 p.m. Central / 5 p.m. Mountain/ 4 p.m. Pacific
Georgia [13]
New Hampshire [2]
South Carolina [6]
Vermont [1]
Virginia [11]
7:30 p.m. Eastern/ 6:30 p.m. Central / 5:30 p.m. Mountain/ 4:30 p.m. Pacific
North Carolina [13]
Ohio [18]
West Virginia [3]
8 p.m. Eastern/ 7 p.m. Central/ 6 p.m. Mountain/ 5 p.m. Pacific
Alabama [7]
Connecticut [5]
Delaware [1]
Florida [25]
Illinois [19]
Kansas [4]
Maine [2]
Maryland [8]
Massachusetts [10]
Michigan [15]
Mississippi [4]
Missouri [9]
New Jersey [13]
North Dakota [1]
Oklahoma [5]
Pennsylvania [19]
South Dakota [1]
Tennessee [9]
Texas [32]
8:30 p.m. Eastern/ 7:30 p.m. Central/ 6:30 p.m. Mountain/ 5:30 p.m. Pacific
Arkansas [4]
9 p.m. Eastern/ 8 p.m. Central/ 7 p.m. Mountain/ 6 p.m. Pacific
Arizona [8]
Colorado [7]
Louisiana [7]
Minnesota [8]
Nebraska [3]
New Mexico [3]
New York [29]
Rhode Island [2]
Wisconsin [8]
Wyoming [1]
10 p.m. Eastern/ 9 p.m. Central/ 8 p.m. Mountain/ 7 p.m. Pacific
Idaho [2]
Iowa [5]
Montana [1]
Nevada [3]
Utah [3]
11 p.m. Eastern/ 10 p.m. Central/ 9 p.m. Mountain/ 8 p.m. Pacific
California [53]
Hawaii [2]
(6 p.m. local time)
Oregon [5]
Washington [9]
Midnight Eastern/ 11 p.m. Central/ 10 p.m. Mountain/ 9 p.m. Pacific
Alaska (8 p.m. local time) [1]
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Pre-Election Roundup
Bruce at GayPatriot has an “on the ground” report from the Charlotte/Mecklenburg Co. NC area. Chuck Simmins at America’s North Shore Journal has a really cool chart showing the times the polls in the different races close tomorrow. Will “Generation…
[...] Chuck Simmins has the full list of poll closing times. The first Senate bellwether is Virginia at 7, then a raft of others at 8. In the meantime, Bryan, Ian, and I will have no fewer than eight recorders whirring throughout the day and into the night. The point of this post is to ask you guys to please e-mail us at the tips address in the upper right-hand corner of this page if you see something — on television or online — that you think deserves a wider audience. We’ll be focusing on the cable news networks but we’re bound to miss stuff. If you’re watching tonight and you’re near a keyboard when something happens, we’d be very grateful if you gave us a holler. [...]