We don’t have a crystal ball. But here’s what we know about timing for election night.
Election Day is finally here in the United States. So naturally many of you are wondering: When will the world know the outcome? Unfortunately, no one knows for sure. We know, we know, you’ve waited this long, and you’re just trying to decide whether to stay up all night or go to bed and hope there’s an answer in the morning. Or on Thursday. Or Friday at the latest. We can’t make that choice for you, but we can give you some tools to help think through the night. The first polls close on the East Coast at 7 p.m. local time, and the last don’t close until after 12 a.m. Eastern time. Here’s a list of when every state’s polls close, which generally means if someone hasn’t voted, or isn’t in line to vote by then, they’ve run out of time. States start reporting some of their results as soon as their polls close.
