Millions of Americans will vote in person in the 2024 elections on Tuesday, November 5. Check the times the polls open and close, as hours vary by state and 15 states have areas that fall into two different time zones. States will begin reporting election results after their polling stations close.

If you are in line before a location closes, you have the right to stay in line and vote. View a list of voter rights from the ACLU here.

Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia offering a form of early votingand eight states, along with DC, allow a vote-by-mail system across the board. More than 78 million voters cast their votes at the beginning of this year.

What time do the first polls open on election day 2024?

The first polling hours on the East Coast will be in Vermont, with select locations (but not all) opening at 5 a.m. ET. Polls in all or parts of five other states open at 6 a.m. ET. See a full list below.

Here’s when polls open in each state on Election Day:

Oregon is a vote-by-mail state, so it does not have in-person polling places.

As early as 5am ET

• Vermont (Polling stations open between 5am and 10am depending on your city. Check here to see when your polling place opens)

6 a.m. ET

• Connecticut
• Kentucky (Western polls open at 7 a.m. ET)
• Maine (polling stations open between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., depending on city population. Check here)
• New Jersey
• New York
• Virginia

6:30 AM ET

• North Carolina
• Ohio
• West Virginia

7am ET

• Alabama
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Florida (8 a.m. ET in parts of the Florida Panhandle on Central Time)
• Georgia
• New Hampshire (hours vary by county, earliest starting at 7 a.m. ET; see here)
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas (varies by county; contact your local election office for polling place hours)
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan (Polling places in four Upper Peninsula counties open at 8 a.m. ET)
• Missouri
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island (New Shoreham polls open at 9 a.m. ET)
• South Carolina
• Wyoming

8 a.m. ET

• Arizona
• Iowa
• Minnesota (Counties with fewer than 500 residents don’t have to open until 11 a.m. ET)
• Mississippi
• Oklahoma
• North Dakota (Polling locations begin at 8:00 a.m. ET and vary by county. Check “County Polling Places” for polling locations)
• South Dakota (Western polls open at 9 a.m. ET)
• Tennessee
• Texas (polling places in three western counties open at 9 a.m. ET)
• Wisconsin

8:30 am ET

9am ET

• Colorado
• Montana (polling places in counties with fewer than 400 registered voters cannot open until 2:00 PM ET)
• Nebraska
• Nevada (polling places open at 10 a.m. ET, excluding City Hall in West Wendover)
• New Mexico
• Utah

10am ET

• California
• Idaho (Northern polls open at 11 a.m. ET)

11am ET

• Washington (Most voting is done by mail, so times vary by county; see here)
• Alaska (polling places open at 11 a.m. ET, excluding Adak)

12:00 PM ET

What time do the first polls close on election day 2024?

The first polls on the East Coast will close at 6:00 PM ET in the eastern counties of Indiana and Kentucky, with the rest of those states, as well as Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia, closing at 7:00 PM ET. View a full list of scheduled polling station closing times below.

Here’s when the polls in each state close on Election Day:

7:00 PM ET

• Georgia
• Indiana (polling places close at 6:00 PM ET in the 80 counties in the Eastern Time Zone; find your polling place here)
• Kentucky (polling places close at 6:00 PM ET for the 79 counties in the eastern part of the state)
• South Carolina
• Vermont
• Virginia

7:30 PM ET

• North Carolina
• Ohio
• West Virginia

8:00 PM ET

• Alabama
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Florida (Eastern time zone polls close at 7:00 PM ET; part of the Panhandle is in the Central time zone)
• Illinois
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• New Hampshire (polling locations vary by county and are listed here by location)
• New Jersey
• Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Tennessee

8:30 PM ET

9:00 PM ET

• Arizona
• Colorado
• Iowa
• Kansas (polling places close at 8:00 PM ET in all counties except four western counties)
• Louisiana
• Michigan (polling places close at 8:00 PM ET in all but four counties)
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Dakota (polling places close at 8:00 PM ET in all but eight counties)
• South Dakota (polling places close at 8:00 PM ET in the East)
• Texas (polling places close at 8:00 PM ET for most of the state except three counties in the west)
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

10pm ET

• Montana
• Nevada (The polling place at West Wendover City Hall closes at 9:00 PM ET)
• Utah

11:00 PM ET

• California
• Idaho (Southern polls close at 10:00 PM ET)
• Oregon (Malheur County polls close at 10:00 PM ET)
• Washington

12:00 PM ET

1am ET

• Alaska (polling stations close at noon with the exception of Adak)