2026 Election Results and Certification Dates by State, With Sample Ballot Lookup

Voting has ended. Election Day was Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, and Texas early voting ran Oct. 19 to Oct. 30. This guide now covers where each state posts official results, when counties and states certify the count, which states hold a runoff, and how to look up your sample ballot for your records or a runoff.

Now that voting is over, the next steps are the official count and its certification. Each state election office posts returns on its own results page, then county and state boards canvass and certify the totals over the following weeks, and a few states hold a runoff when no candidate wins outright. The table below links the official results page for six states and gives the certification or canvass deadline and any runoff date, each taken from that state’s own election office. Further down, the sample ballot lookup stays available so you can still pull your ballot by ZIP code or address, for your records or for a runoff.

Where to see official results and what comes next

Each state election office runs its own results page. After Election Day, county boards canvass the returns and then the state certifies them, which is when the totals become official; a few states hold a runoff if no candidate reaches the required share of the vote. The table below covers six of the states in the lookup further down. Each entry comes from that state’s own election office, read on Nov. 5, 2026. Where a state’s official page does not give a date, the table says “not yet announced”; where a state holds no runoff for the general election, it says “none listed.”

State	Official results page	Certification or canvass deadline	Runoff date
Texas	Texas Election Night Returns	Local canvass by Tuesday, Nov. 17; the Governor may begin the state canvass Saturday, Nov. 21	Saturday, Dec. 12, 2026 (runoff elections)
Florida	Florida election results	Not yet announced	None listed
Louisiana	Louisiana Voter Portal results	Not yet announced	Not yet announced
Minnesota	Minnesota election results	State Canvassing Board certifies Thursday, Nov. 19	None listed
North Carolina	North Carolina election results	Not yet announced	None listed
Washington	Washington election results	Not yet announced	None listed

Early numbers on these pages are unofficial until the canvass is complete. For the full rules and the exact dates where you live, open your state’s official results page above or its election office in the lookup table further down.

Find your sample ballot by ZIP code

Voting for the general election is done, but you can still look up your sample ballot for your records or for a runoff. Enter your ZIP code to reach your state’s official lookup, then search by street address.

Enter your five-digit ZIP code Find my ballot site

The finder matches the first three digits of your ZIP code to a state using Postal Service prefixes and points you to that state’s official lookup in the table below. It does not store or send your ZIP code anywhere. A handful of ZIP codes near state lines cross into a neighboring state; if the result looks wrong, pick your state in the table.

Why a ZIP code is not enough

ZIP codes are drawn by the Postal Service for delivering mail, and election districts are drawn separately, so one ZIP code can cross two congressional districts, several state legislative districts, different school boards and city limits. Two neighbors with the same ZIP code can have different ballots. That is why official lookups ask for your street address, or for your name and date of birth, to match you to your precinct; if a site asks only for a ZIP code, treat its ballot as a rough preview.

How to read your sample ballot

A sample ballot shows the same contests, in the same order, as the ballot you will vote on. Each race tells you how many choices you can make, such as one candidate for governor or more than one for a school board. Ballot measures, called propositions, amendments or questions depending on the state, are a yes-or-no choice, so read the measure’s own wording, not just its number.

A touch-screen ballot-marking device of the kind many counties use; voters touch their choices, review them and print the record. Your sample ballot lists the same races in the same order. Photo: Douglas W. Jones, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

In Texas there is no straight-ticket option. The Legislature ended straight-party voting starting Sept. 1, 2020, so the Secretary of State tells voters who want to back one party’s candidates to select each one at a time. Plan every race on your sample ballot, from the top of the ticket to the local offices at the end.

Research the candidates

Start with the candidate list on your official sample ballot, then read what the candidates and measures say for themselves. VOTE411, run by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, collects candidates’ answers to the same questions, and Ballotpedia lists the candidates and measures for an address. Both are nonpartisan. For measures, your county or city usually publishes the full text with the sample ballot; read it before you vote, because the summary on the ballot is short.

Official sample ballot lookup in every state

Each state’s election office runs a voter lookup. In 18 states and Washington, D.C., that portal shows a personalized sample ballot; elsewhere it shows your registration and polling place, and your county, city or town elections office posts the ballot. Nevada does both. Links were checked on Oct. 20, 2026, against each state election office and Vote.gov; some portals block automated checks but open normally in a browser.

Teal states show a personalized sample ballot on the state portal; in the rest, search your county, city or town elections office. Chart: Fresh Calendars, from the table below.

State	Official lookup	Sample ballots from
Alabama	Alabama Votes VoterView	County or local office
Alaska	Alaska Voter Information	State portal
Arizona	My.Arizona.Vote	County or local office
Arkansas	Arkansas Voter View	County or local office
California	My Voter Status	County or local office
Colorado	GoVoteColorado: Find My Registration	State portal
Connecticut	Connecticut Voter Registration Lookup	County or local office
Delaware	Delaware iVote VoterView	State portal
District of Columbia	D.C. Board of Elections: Check Registration	State portal
Florida	Florida Voter Information Lookup	County or local office
Georgia	Georgia My Voter Page	State portal
Hawaii	Hawaii Online Voter Services	County or local office
Idaho	IdahoVotes	County or local office
Illinois	Illinois Voter Registration Lookup	County or local office
Indiana	Indiana Voter Portal	State portal
Iowa	Iowa Voter Information	County or local office
Kansas	Kansas VoterView	County or local office
Kentucky	GoVoteKY	County or local office
Louisiana	Louisiana Voter Portal (GeauxVote); races in our Louisiana sample ballot guide	State portal
Maine	Maine Elections: Information About Voting	County or local office
Maryland	Maryland Voter Lookup	State portal
Massachusetts	Massachusetts Voter Registration Status	County or local office
Michigan	Michigan Voter Information Center	State portal
Minnesota	What’s On My Ballot	State portal
Mississippi	Y’all Vote	County or local office
Missouri	Missouri Voter Lookup	County or local office
Montana	Montana My Voter Page	County or local office
Nebraska	Nebraska VoterCheck	County or local office
Nevada	Nevada Voter Search	State portal and counties
New Hampshire	New Hampshire Voter Information Lookup	County or local office
New Jersey	New Jersey Voter Registration Check; races in our New Jersey sample ballot guide	County or local office
New Mexico	New Mexico Voter Portal	State portal
New York	New York Voter Lookup; races in our New York ballot guide	County or local office
North Carolina	North Carolina Voter Search; races in our North Carolina sample ballot guide	State portal
North Dakota	North Dakota Where to Vote	County or local office
Ohio	Ohio Voter Lookup; races in our Ohio sample ballot guide	County or local office
Oklahoma	Oklahoma Voter Portal	State portal
Oregon	Oregon My Vote	County or local office
Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania Voter Registration Status	County or local office
Rhode Island	Rhode Island Voter Information Center	State portal
South Carolina	MyscVOTES at scVOTES.gov	State portal
South Dakota	South Dakota Voter Information Portal	County or local office
Tennessee	GoVoteTN Voter Lookup	State portal
Texas	Texas My Voter Portal	County or local office
Utah	Vote.Utah.gov	State portal
Vermont	Vermont My Voter Page	County or local office
Virginia	Virginia Department of Elections: View Your Info	County or local office
Washington	VoteWA	State portal
West Virginia	West Virginia Voter Registration Lookup	County or local office
Wisconsin	Wisconsin MyVote	State portal
Wyoming	Wyoming Secretary of State: Elections	County or local office

If your state portal shows only your registration, search for your county name plus “elections.” Nonpartisan guides such as VOTE411, run by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, and Ballotpedia’s sample ballot lookup also build a ballot from your address. If an official sample ballot and a third-party guide disagree, the official version is the one that counts.

Polling place lookups and the Can I Vote tool

Most state portals in the table above also show your polling place next to your registration. Four states run a separate official polling-place page, confirmed Oct. 28, 2026, and you can use them again for a runoff or a later election:

State	Official polling-place lookup	What the page says
California	My Voter Status, California Secretary of State	Lists “Find your polling place.”
Pennsylvania	Polling Place Information, Pennsylvania Department of State	“The Polling Place Search tool will help you locate a polling place for Election day.”
North Carolina	Election Day Polling Place Search, North Carolina State Board of Elections	Search by address or precinct.
Virginia	Virginia Voter Information Citizen Portal, Virginia Department of Elections	Lets you view your polling place.

For any other state, the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) runs the Can I Vote page; canivote.org redirects there. NASS says the tool “links directly to state election websites and trusted resources” and “does not capture any information.” On its polling place page, you “select your place of residence in the drop down menu.” Many states offer an online lookup for your voting site there, and others list contact details for local election officials. Early voting sites can differ from Election Day sites, so check which kind your lookup shows.

Texas: results, certification and vote centers

Texas sample ballots are posted by counties, and the state’s My Voter Portal shows your registration and polling places once you enter your name, county, date of birth and ZIP code. For the 12 most populous counties, the official elections offices are:

Texas went into Nov. 3 with a record 19,041,684 registered voters, the Secretary of State said on Oct. 16, 2026. More than 4.2 million Texans voted in the first six days of early voting, through Saturday, Oct. 24, about 22 percent of registered voters, according to an Oct. 26 release. For the Nov. 3 election, 103 counties were approved to run the Countywide Polling Place Program, which let voters cast a ballot at any vote center in the county; in counties that were not in the program, voters went to an assigned polling place. Polls were open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. statewide, the Secretary of State confirmed on Oct. 27. Under the state’s November 3, 2026 Election Law Calendar, each political subdivision had until Tuesday, Nov. 17 to finish its official canvass, and the Governor may begin the state canvass of state and county races on Saturday, Nov. 21; the Secretary of State set Saturday, Dec. 12 as the date for runoff elections. The table below lists each county’s year in the program (the first year it was approved) from the state’s list.

County	Elections office	Vote at any vote center on Nov. 3?
Harris	HarrisVotes.com sample ballots	Yes (since 2019)
Dallas	Dallas County Elections	Yes (2019)
Tarrant	Tarrant County Elections	Yes (2019)
Bexar	Bexar County Elections Department	Yes (2019)
Travis	VoteTravis.gov	Yes (2012)
Collin	Collin County Elections	Yes (2013)
Denton	Denton County Elections	Not on the state’s Nov. 3 list; check the county
Fort Bend	Fort Bend County Elections and Voter Registration	Yes (2016)
El Paso	El Paso County Elections	Yes (2021)
Hidalgo	Hidalgo County Elections Department	Yes (2018)
Williamson	Williamson County Elections	Yes (2014)
Montgomery	Montgomery County Elections	Not on the state’s Nov. 3 list; check your assigned polling place

Your precinct. Your precinct number is printed next to your year of birth on your voter registration certificate, according to VoteTexas.gov, and My Voter Portal lists your early voting and Election Day polling places. Your county’s sample ballot is matched to that precinct.

Dates. Early voting ran Oct. 19 to Oct. 30; during it, voters could use any early voting location in their county of registration. The deadline for a mail ballot application to arrive was Friday, Oct. 23. A mailed ballot counted if it arrived by 7 p.m. on Nov. 3, or if it was postmarked by 7 p.m. that day and arrived by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4. On Election Day, polls were open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Counties in the state’s Countywide Polling Place Program let voters use any vote center in the county; in other counties voters went to their assigned precinct.

A Harris County “I Voted” sticker after early voting in July 2020 (file photo). Harris County posts its sample ballots at HarrisVotes.com. Photo: Patrick Feller, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

What is on the ballot. Texas voted this year for governor and other statewide executive offices, a U.S. Senate seat, all 38 U.S. House seats, the Texas Legislature, judges and local offices. Every certified statewide candidate is in our Texas ballot 2026 guide. Your county sample ballot adds any city, county or school district measures for your address.

ID. You need one of seven photo IDs: a Texas driver license, Texas Election Identification Certificate, Texas personal ID card or Texas handgun license (all from the Department of Public Safety), a U.S. military ID with a photo, a U.S. citizenship certificate with a photo, or a U.S. passport. For voters 18 to 69, the ID may be expired by up to four years; for voters 70 and older, any expired but otherwise valid ID is accepted. If you do not have one and cannot reasonably get one, you can sign a Reasonable Impediment Declaration and show a supporting document such as a utility bill or bank statement.

Your notes and phone. “Voters may bring printed notes or a paper sample ballot to help them make their selections,” the Secretary of State said in an Oct. 16 release. Texas law does not allow wireless devices such as phones, tablets or laptops to be used in the room where voting takes place, the Secretary of State says. Phones can be used outside that room as long as they are not recording. So if you plan your choices on a sample ballot app, write or print them first.

Early voting used the same ballot

The ballot at an early voting site was the same ballot style as your precinct’s on Election Day, so the sample ballot you look up matches what was on the Nov. 3 ballot. Early voting dates differed by state: Texas ran through Oct. 30, while Michigan’s statewide minimum period was Oct. 24 to Nov. 1. Our mail ballot deadline list covers the states that vote mostly by mail.

Bring your choices on paper

Our free ballot worksheet has a line for each common office and five lines for ballot measures. Copy your picks from the official sample ballot and take the sheet with you; that works in Texas and in states that are just as strict about phones. The one-page state lookup sheet puts every official portal on paper, and the voting plan covers the rest: when and where you will vote, the ID you will bring and how you will get there.

Our voter registration deadline report lists the deadlines that have passed and the states that still allow same-day registration. Clocks fell back on Sunday, Nov. 1, two days before the election; the daylight saving time story has the details.

State ballot guides

For Texas candidates, see our Texas ballot guide. For what is on the ballot in other large states, with free printable checklists, see our guides to California’s 14 propositions, Florida’s amendments and Senate special, Georgia, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Arizona’s eight propositions. For every state, check poll closing times and mail ballot deadlines, see whether Election Day is a holiday where you work, and follow the results with our 2026 midterm tracker.

Key dates

Date	What happens
Friday, Oct. 23	Texas: last day for a mail ballot application to arrive (passed)
Saturday, Oct. 24	Early voting opens statewide in Michigan (passed)
Friday, Oct. 30	Last day of early voting in Texas (passed)
Sunday, Nov. 1	Clocks fell back one hour at 2 a.m. (passed)
Tuesday, Nov. 3	Election Day (passed); Texas polls were open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 5 p.m.	Texas: last arrival for a mailed ballot postmarked by Nov. 3 (passed)
Tuesday, Nov. 17	Texas: last day for the county canvass of returns
Thursday, Nov. 19	Minnesota: State Canvassing Board certifies results
Saturday, Nov. 21	Texas: Governor may begin the state canvass
Saturday, Dec. 12	Texas: date set for runoff elections

Keep the canvass and any runoff circled on the November 2026 calendar, and map the weeks ahead on a weekly planner; the October 2026 calendar shows the early voting weeks that have ended. If you are ever in line when polls close, stay in line: you can still vote.