Below the fold is a list of key House, Senate, and gubernatorial races taking place on Nov. 6, 2012, arranged by poll closing times. States with multiple closing times are listed in order of their earliest closing, with the exception of Oregon (where most of the state is in the Pacific time zone).
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Incumbents' names are noted in parentheses. Blue and red seats are held by Democrats and Republicans respectively. Purple seats feature matchups between a Democratic incumbent and a Republican incumbent. Green seats are new seats created by decennial reapportionment pursuant to the census and are controlled by neither party, except for CT-Sen, which is green to denote it is currently held by an independent.
Time |
State |
Key Races |
6:00 PM
7:00 PM |
Indiana (E.)
Indiana (W.) |
IN-Sen (OPEN), IN-Gov (OPEN), IN-02 (OPEN), IN-08 (Bucshon) |
6:00 PM
7:00 PM |
Kentucky (E.)
Kentucky (W.) |
KY-06 (Chandler) |
7:00 PM
8:00 PM |
Florida (E.)
Florida (W.) |
FL-Sen (Nelson), FL-02 (Southerland), FL-09 (OPEN), FL-10 (Webster), FL-16 (Buchanan), FL-18 (West), FL-22 (OPEN), FL-26 (Rivera) |
7:00 PM |
Georgia |
GA-12 (Barrow) |
7:00 PM
8:00 PM |
N.H. (Most of state)
N.H. (Some towns) |
NH-Gov (OPEN), NH-01 (Guinta), NH-02 (Bass) |
7:00 PM |
South Carolina |
|
7:00 PM |
Vermont |
|
7:00 PM |
Virginia |
VA-Sen (OPEN), VA-02 (Rigell) |
7:30 PM |
North Carolina |
NC-Gov (OPEN), NC-07 (McIntyre), NC-08 (Kissell), NC-11 (OPEN) |
7:30 PM |
Ohio |
OH-Sen (Brown), OH-06 (Johnson), OH-07 (Gibbs), OH-16 (Sutton/Renacci) |
7:30 PM |
West Virginia |
WV-Sen (Manchin), WV-Gov (Tomblin), WV-03 (Rahall) |
8:00 PM |
Alabama |
|
8:00 PM |
Connecticut |
CT-Sen (OPEN), CT-05 (OPEN) |
8:00 PM |
Delaware |
|
8:00 PM |
Illinois |
IL-08 (Walsh), IL-10 (Dold), IL-11 (Biggert), IL-12 (OPEN), IL-13 (OPEN), IL-17 (Schilling) |
8:00 PM
9:00 PM |
Kansas (E.)
Kansas (W.) |
|
8:00 PM |
Maine |
ME-Sen (OPEN) |
8:00 PM |
Maryland |
MD-06 (Bartlett) |
8:00 PM |
Massachusetts |
MA-Sen (Brown), MA-06 (Tierney) |
8:00 PM
9:00 PM |
Michigan (E.)
Michigan (W.) |
MI-01 (Benishek), MI-03 (Amash), MI-11 (VACANT) |
8:00 PM |
Mississippi |
|
8:00 PM |
Missouri |
MO-Sen (McCaskill), MO-Gov (Nixon) |
8:00 PM |
New Jersey |
NJ-Sen (Menendez), NJ-03 (Runyan) |
8:00 PM
9:00 PM |
N.D. (Most of E.)
N.D. (W.+Cass Co.) |
ND-Sen (OPEN), ND-AL (OPEN) |
8:00 PM |
Oklahoma |
OK-02 (OPEN) |
8:00 PM |
Pennsylvania |
PA-Sen (Casey), PA-06 (Gerlach), PA-08 (Fitzpatrick), PA-12 (Critz) |
8:00 PM
9:00 PM |
South Dakota (E.)
South Dakota (W.) |
SD-AL (Noem) |
8:00 PM |
Tennessee |
TN-04 (DesJarlais) |
8:00 PM
9:00 PM |
Texas (E.)
Texas (W.) |
TX-14 (OPEN), TX-23 (Canseco) |
8:30 PM |
Arkansas |
|
9:00 PM |
Arizona |
AZ-Sen (OPEN), AZ-01 (OPEN), AZ-02 (Barber), AZ-09 (OPEN) |
9:00 PM |
Colorado |
CO-03 (Tipton), CO-06 (Coffman), CO-07 (Perlmutter) |
9:00 PM |
Louisiana |
LA-03 (Boustany/Landry) |
9:00 PM |
Minnesota |
MN-02 (Kline), MN-06 (Bachmann), MN-08 (Cravaack) |
9:00 PM |
Nebraska |
NE-Sen (OPEN), NE-02 (Terry) |
9:00 PM |
New Mexico |
NM-Sen (OPEN), NM-01 (OPEN) |
9:00 PM |
New York |
NY-01 (Bishop), NY-11 (Grimm), NY-18 (Hayworth), NY-19 (Gibson), NY-21 (Owens), NY-24 (Buerkle), NY-25 (Slaughter), NY-27 (Hochul) |
9:00 PM |
Rhode Island |
RI-01 (Cicilline) |
9:00 PM |
Wisconsin |
WI-Sen (OPEN), WI-07 (Duffy), WI-08 (Ribble) |
9:00 PM |
Wyoming |
|
10:00 PM
11:00 PM |
Idaho (S.)
Idaho (N.) |
|
10:00 PM |
Iowa |
IA-01 (Braley), IA-02 (Loebsack), IA-03 (Boswell/Latham), IA-04 (King) |
10:00 PM |
Montana |
MT-Sen (Tester), MT-Gov (OPEN), MT-AL (OPEN) |
10:00 PM |
Nevada |
NV-Sen (Heller), NV-03 (Heck), NV-04 (OPEN) |
10:00 PM |
Utah |
UT-04 (Matheson), |
11:00 PM |
California |
CA-03 (Garamendi), CA-07 (Lungren), CA-08 (OPEN), CA-09 (McNerney), CA-10 (Denham), CA-15 (Stark), CA-16 (Costa), CA-21 (OPEN), CA-24 (Capps), CA-26 (OPEN), CA-30 (Berman/Sherman), CA-31 (Miller), CA-35 (Baca), CA-36 (Bono Mack), CA-41 (OPEN), CA-44 (Hahn/Richardson), CA-47 (OPEN), CA-52 (Bilbray) |
10:00 PM
11:00 PM |
Oregon (E.)
Oregon (W.) |
|
11:00 PM |
Washington |
WA-Gov (OPEN), WA-01 (VACANT), WA-10 (OPEN) |
12:00 AM
1:00 AM |
Alaska (E.)
Alaska (W.) |
|
11:00 PM |
Hawaii |
HI-Sen (OPEN) |