What time do the polls close
The gist
On Nov 3, 2026, US midterm polls close state by state, first at 6 p.m.
Control of the Senate may take days to call, not hours.
How it unfolded
- Nov 3, 2026Polls first open in Vermont at 5 a.m. ET, with voting starting at 6 a.m. in New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and Kentucky.
- Nov 3, 2026First polls close at 6 p.m. ET in eastern Indiana and Kentucky; western Kentucky and two small western corners of Indiana stay open an extra hour.
- Nov 3, 2026At 7 p.m. ET polls close in Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, the rest of Indiana and Kentucky, and most of Florida.