Voters in four states have been casting their ballots in midterm primaries on Tuesday. There are open U.S. House seats in Maryland, New York and Utah, as well as a crowded slate of Republican candidates for governor in Maryland, running against a Democratic incumbent. In South Carolina’s runoffs, Republican voters are casting ballots in races for governor and the U.S. House, and Democrats will vote in two U.S. House races.
Here’s what to know about the night’s results.
Maryland
Polls close at 8 p.m. Eastern time. Election officials will begin counting votes shortly after, and results are expected to be in by late evening. Every county in the state uses the same tabulation method — ballot-scanning machines — so all unofficial results are expected to be available around the same time.
You can keep tabs on the unofficial tally on The New York Times’s vote tracker. The results will be unofficial until the state board of canvassers meets to certify the election on July 23.
New York
Polls close at 9 p.m. Eastern, at which point county election boards will begin tabulating the early votes that they processed ahead of Election Day, as well as the ballots that were cast on Tuesday. Counties upload their unofficial results to their own websites, election officials say, so timing will vary by county.
Curious voters can check our unofficial results tracker once polls close. By July 13, the state’s county election boards will begin the process of certifying the results.
South Carolina
South Carolina has just a few races on its ballot, with much of the attention on the Republican runoff for governor and the Democratic and Republican runoffs in the state’s First Congressional District, after no candidates gathered enough votes to win the nomination outright earlier this month. Results will most likely come in soon after polls close at 7 p.m. Eastern time, officials expect.
The Times’s tracker will have the unofficial results as they arrive.
Utah
Polls close at 8 p.m. local time (10 p.m. Eastern). Counties have their own processes for tabulating ballots, election officials say, so more populous counties may take longer to release their counts.
That said, Utah is a mail-in voting state, meaning that the bulk of votes will already be in by election night. (Last week, President Trump suggested that Utah should end its policy of sending ballots to registered voters.) Election officials expect to have a good idea of the unofficial tally by Wednesday morning, if not late on Tuesday. Keep tabs on unofficial results with The Times’s vote tracker.
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