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Pennsylvania early vote 2026

State file of Oct 22 · checked Oct 25 · Pennsylvania Department of State, mail ballot file ↗

On the ballot in Pennsylvania: Governor forecast →

Ballots returned720,648through Oct 21 · +43,309 that day
vs 2022−1%same day of voting · 66 of 67 counties
Registered D–R gap, 66 countiesD+43.02022 same point: D+53.2
Day of voting3813 days to Election Day

Ballots by party, day by day, 66 counties

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Each line adds up one party’s ballots, day by day. Solid is 2026; dashed is the year picked, lined up on the same day of voting. A solid line above its dashed one means more of that party’s ballots than at the same point then. Hover, tap or use the arrow keys to read a day.
0200K400K600KDay 9Day 15Day 22Day 29Day 40D 482KR 173K
Day 38 of voting · Oct 2120262022 · Oct 26ChangeDem482,453529,100−9%Rep172,925141,559+22%

Starts at day 9; few ballots were in before then.

Registered Democrats have cast 9% fewer ballots than at this point in 2022, Republicans 22% more and unaffiliated voters 10% more, in the 66 counties compared.

Against whole elections

So far, Pennsylvania’s early ballots equal 13% of all votes cast for U.S. Senate in 2022 and 10% of all votes cast for President in 2024.

  • 2026 so farearly ballots returned720,648
  • 2022 earlyall early ballots, 23% of all votes1,229,449
  • 2022 all votescast for U.S. Senate5,375,885
Early ballots by party registration, and the result
YearEarly ballots, finalResult
2022D+47.8D+4.9 U.S. Senate
2024D+22.3R+1.7 President

Registration is not a vote, and the result also counts every ballot cast on Election Day. Results: Federal Election Commission, Federal Elections 2022; Federal Election Commission, Official 2024 Presidential General Election Results.

Ballots added each day, last 7 days

329K this year against 290K on the same day of voting of 2022 · +14%

  1. 64K60KDay 32
  2. 62K32KDay 33
  3. 7.4K19KDay 34
  4. 7.3K10.0KDay 35
  5. 101K68KDay 36
  6. 43K48KDay 37
  7. 43K52KDay 38

Where the ballots are

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Each bar is a place’s ballots against the largest place’s, split by party registration: Democrats, unaffiliated, Republicans. The figure at the end is the D–R gap. All ballots in this year’s file.

Last column: each county against itself at the same point of 2022 (the 66 counties compared).

  1. Allegheny94,721D+58.1−13%
  2. Montgomery74,189D+49.6+25%
  3. Philadelphia68,279D+81.3−5%
  4. Bucks56,917D+31.3+3%
  5. Chester34,588D+39.8+20%
  6. Delaware28,677D+45.5+19%
  7. Lancaster27,454D+26.2−2%
  8. Northampton21,152D+43.4−14%
  9. Cumberland19,425D+23.1+6%
  10. York18,948D+26.5−16%

Party registration

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The party each voter registered with, not the ballot they cast. Unaffiliated includes minor parties. Earlier years are at the same point of their voting.
  • 2026statewideD+43.0
  • 202666 countiesD+43.0
  • 202266 countiesD+53.2
  • 202466 countiesD+29.9

Dem 483,003 −9%Rep 173,355 +22%Unaff. 64,290 +10%

Changes are against the same point of 2022, in the 66 counties compared.

Mail or in person

Mail 720,664 100%In person 0 0%

Pennsylvania has no in-person early voting; voters can request and cast a mail ballot at their county office.

Known

  • 720,648 ballots returnedthrough Oct 21
  • Each ballot's party registration
  • All by mail so far
  • Day by daysince Aug 31
  • By 67 counties and congressional districts
  • Voters' age
  • Against the same point of 2022in 66 of 67 counties

Not known

  • How anyone votedballots stay sealed until they are counted
  • How unaffiliated voters lean64,290, 9% of ballots
  • Election Day turnout
  • Mail ballots still outrequested or sent and not yet returned; not read from the state's file yet
  • Ballots received but not yet logged

Who has voted

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Shares of the ballots in this year’s file. A tick and the small figure: the same group's share of all 2022 early ballots, where the bands match.

Age

  • 18-294.6%10.5%
  • 30-449.4%14.8%
  • 45-6421.2%26.3%
  • 65+64.8%48.4%
How Pennsylvania is counted and compared

Compared in 66 of 67 counties, with 100% of this year’s ballots. Counties start logging returns on different days each year: Huntingdon has 1,048 ballots now and had 1,191 at this point in 2022. A county is compared once it had logged 5% of its final mail vote by this point in 2022 and 2024, and has logged as much this year. The totals are statewide; the changes, the gap and the chart are for these counties.

Pennsylvania is 1% behind 2022 at this point in the counties compared. A ballot here is dated by the day the county logged it, so earlier days do not fill in later.

  • 2022 is read on the same day of voting as this year. Voting opened 50 days before the election in 2022 (September 19) and 50 days before it this year (September 14), so each year is read on the same day of its own voting.
  • 2024 is read on the same day of voting as this year. Voting opened 50 days before the election in 2024 (September 16) and 50 days before it this year (September 14), so each year is read on the same day of its own voting.
  • Mail and absentee ballots only: Pennsylvania has no in-person early voting; ballots marked at a county office in one visit count as mail.
  • Counts ballots recorded as votes; returned ballots pending a cure or cancelled are not counted.
  • A ballot is dated when the county logged it as returned, not when the voter sent it. Counties log in batches (Philadelphia especially), so daily counts are lumpy and the latest day is usually partial.
  • Because the date is the logging date, earlier days do not fill in later: a copy of the 2022 file archived the day before that election held 1% more ballots for earlier dates than the final file, not fewer.
  • Counties begin logging on different days each year, so the comparison with 2022 and 2024 is made county by county, in the counties under way in every year compared.
  • 2024: Mail and absentee ballots only: Pennsylvania has no in-person early voting.
  • 2024: Counts ballots recorded as votes; returned ballots pending a cure or cancelled are not counted.
  • 2024: A ballot is dated when the county logged it as returned, not when the voter sent it. Counties log in batches (Philadelphia especially), so daily counts are lumpy.
  • 2024: 1,568 ballots with an impossible return date are left out.
  • 2022: Mail and absentee ballots only: Pennsylvania has no in-person early voting.
  • 2022: Counts every ballot with a returned date. The 2022 file has no status column, so ballots a county later set aside (missing signature, date or secrecy envelope) are included; 2024 and 2026 count only ballots recorded as votes.
  • 2022: A ballot is dated when the county logged it as returned, not when the voter sent it. Counties log in batches (Philadelphia especially), so daily counts are lumpy.
  • 2022: Party is the applicant's designation: D and R, with every other entry as U.

Last checked Counts change only when a state has posted a new file.

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