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Early & absentee voting
Who has already voted
A daily count of the ballots cast before Election Day 2026, state by state, measured against each state’s own pace in 2022 and 2024 — at the same number of days out, never the same calendar date.
Early voting has not opened yet — this page will fill in as states begin reporting.
About this page
How to read early vote numbers
Early and absentee ballots are counted here the day each state publishes them. Every comparison on this page is drawn against the same number of days before Election Day, because Election Day itself moves — November 8 in 2022, November 5 in 2024, November 3 in 2026. Comparing calendar dates across cycles quietly compares the tenth day of one election with the seventh day of another, and the early-vote curve is steep enough near the end that a three-day slip swamps everything the comparison was meant to show.
A party split is not a vote count. Where a state registers voters by party, we can say how many ballots came back from registered Democrats and registered Republicans — but not who they voted for. Roughly one voter in five casts a ballot against their own registration, and unaffiliated voters, who decide most competitive races, are invisible in that split entirely. Several of the states we track register no party at all, so they show no party breakdown here rather than a made-up one — and Arizona, which does register by party, publishes a table that omits the split, which is a different thing again and is labelled “not reported” rather than treated as if no such thing existed.
Turnout that arrives early is not extra turnout. A surge in mail ballots often means the same voters voting sooner, not more of them voting — which is why every state is also shown as a share of its own final early vote in 2022. That ratio is the useful number: it says how far through its early period a state is, not how excited it is.
We badge every state with where its number came from — the state election authority itself, one of two national fallbacks, or a roll compiled by hand from county reports — and with how long ago it was read. A blank cell means the state does not report that figure. It never means zero.
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