When will we know? · Massachusetts
When will we know Massachusetts’s 2026 election results?
In 2024, about 5% of Massachusetts’s vote was counted by 9 PM ET, 47% by 11 PM and 81% by 1 AM.
It had not passed 95% by 2:37 AM ET, the last overnight copy in the archive (89%); the archive has no later copy for Massachusetts.
Essex, Norfolk and Plymouth were still under 90% at 2:37 AM ET and came in last. Middlesex and Worcester came in first.
Polls in Massachusetts close at 8 PM ET.
- These are 2024 counts. 2024 was a presidential year, and 2026 timing can differ. Nothing on this page predicts when any 2026 race will be known.
- Percentages are of each unit’s final 2024 count, not of the votes cast in 2026. A county’s share is of that county’s own final count.
- This page shows no results and no live data. Call the Map does not run an election-night results page.
The count by the hour, election night 2024
The biggest counties, and when each was in
| County | Of the state’s vote | By 9 PM | By 11 PM | By 1 AM | Past 90% by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesex | 23% | 6% | 52% | 79% | 2 AM |
| Worcester | 12% | 8% | 54% | 86% | 2 AM |
| Essex | 12% | 6% | 54% | 78% | not by 2:37 AM |
| Norfolk | 11% | 7% | 46% | 77% | not by 2:37 AM |
| Plymouth | 9% | none | 44% | 81% | not by 2:37 AM |
Each percentage is of that county’s own final count, not of the state’s. “none” means the feed showed no votes yet; “not measured” means the feed did not carry the county’s count at that time, which is not the same as zero. A time after 2:37 AM is the first archived copy at that level; the archive has no copy between 2:37 AM and 2:37 PM on Nov. 6, so the count may have passed it earlier.
What comes late, and why
Medium pace. AP: first votes come in quickly but it often takes until after 11 p.m. ET for most of the count, and a small share remains to be counted the day after Election Day. About 72% of the 2020 vote was reported by midnight ET; MIT names Massachusetts among slower states in 2024.
Sources: AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Massachusetts on Election Day (AP, syndicated by iNFOnews); MIT Election Data + Science Lab: How long did it take to count the vote in 2024? (Baltz). These describe the 2020, 2022 and 2024 elections and the rules in force when they were read; they are not a statement about 2026.
The 2026 races here
No race in Massachusetts is rated Toss-up, Tilt or Lean in our current forecast.
See every race in Massachusetts, print the Election Night Guide to follow the count, or make your calls in the prediction game.
Sources and method
- Counts
- The New York Times presidential county results feed (Associated Press data), President only, as the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine kept it. Copies used: 7:59 PM ET Nov. 5 to 2:37 AM ET Nov. 6. The archive has no capture of this feed between 2:37 AM and 2:37 PM ET on Nov 6 2024; a state still counting at 2:37 AM is not measured again until the afternoon (and only the 16 states with an 'after' point carry later captures).
- Final count
- NYT total_expected_vote per unit in the last archived capture of Nov 8 2024 (statewide 3,415,977), or the largest count seen where that was lower. It is the feed’s last archived value, not a certified canvass.
The 8 archived copies behind this page
- 8 PM · 0% of the state’s final count in · taken 19:59 ET 11/05
- 9 PM · 5% of the state’s final count in · taken 21:00 ET 11/05
- 10 PM · 23% of the state’s final count in · taken 22:00 ET 11/05
- 11 PM · 47% of the state’s final count in · taken 22:59 ET 11/05
- midnight · 64% of the state’s final count in · taken 23:51 ET 11/05
- 1 AM · 81% of the state’s final count in · taken 01:00 ET 11/06
- 2 AM · 88% of the state’s final count in · taken 01:57 ET 11/06
- 2:37 AM · 89% of the state’s final count in · taken 02:37 ET 11/06