Nevada 2026 general · in-person early voting
Early voting opened on 17 October, and for the first time the state publishes the count while it is happening: a small file of votes cast in person, by county and party, rewritten every few minutes. This page keeps every version of it that has been served — so far — and draws the day as it fills. people have now voted in person, against mail ballots already back.
Every clock on this page runs 8am to 9pm. Early voting opens at eight in a few counties and nine in most, and closes at seven — eight on the last day. Drawn midnight to midnight, eleven hours of every day are a flat line, and the closed hours were taking 38 per cent of the width. So the hours the polls are shut are not drawn at all, and the heavier rule between days is the seam where one day's hours give out and the next begin rather than midnight. The window can hide nothing: any day on which something was recorded outside those hours is widened to take it in, which is why Tuesday starts at 7.48am — four votes landed there. Across the whole record nothing has ever been recorded after nine at night. The 187 readings now left undrawn carry no votes between them, and the running totals are the state's own cumulative figures, so they account for every ballot whatever the clock shows.
And every multi-day chart is drawn a week to a plot, one week above the other. They used to give each day the width of the hours it had actually filled. That works for three days and breaks at seven: on the seventh morning of early voting the day being voted was eight minutes of width against six finished days — a sliver at the right-hand edge with its own name clipped off the axis. The day in progress is the one worth watching, so it cannot be the one the chart squeezes out. Now every day gets the same slot, seven of them to a week, whether a day is finished, half over or still to come.
Early voting here runs a fortnight, so there are two of those plots and both are drawn, the second week under the first on exactly the same clock. That is what the stacking is for: the second Saturday sits directly beneath the first, Tuesday beneath Tuesday, and the question this page exists to ask — is this week running ahead of last week, and at which hour of which day — is answered by reading straight down. Laid end to end instead, the fortnight would give a day a fourteenth of the width and put the two Saturdays a screen apart. The weeks share a vertical scale as well as a clock, because two plots stacked to be compared and then scaled apart would be a trick rather than a comparison. Lining up is a promise about geometry, so the slots are shared rather than merely alike: a day that widened itself past the poll hours — Tuesday the 20th, where four votes landed at 7.48 — widens that slot in both weeks, and the columns still answer to one another. The one-day charts below each pair are unaffected: any day of the record can be picked there. The county sparklines keep a single frame across the whole fortnight with a rule where the week turns, because a panel a quarter of a chart's width has no room to be two.
One point per version of the file, each party drawn on its own rather than stacked — stacking hides which line is moving. This opens of the day so far, which restarts the count at every midnight and draws each day as its own curve: a line that only ever goes up says nothing about whether today is bigger than yesterday, and a curve a day from the same origin says it at a glance. The first day's slot opens at eight with the polls, but the watching began an hour and a half later, so its curve starts part-way along the slot and part-way up the scale: the state's first file of the cycle already carried the morning. Of everything so far is the other button: the feed is cumulative, so that is the state's own count as it stood at each reading, one line climbing each week's plot — and entering from the left at whatever the count had already reached, in any week but the first. Everyone can be turned off, and it is worth doing: the total is about two and a half times the biggest party, so while it is drawn the three party lines are pressed into the bottom of the plot. Without it the scale is of what is left, and the gap between the parties — the thing worth watching — has the whole height to open up in.
The last control picks whose count this is — all of Nevada, any one of the seventeen counties, or CD2, the one district Nevada's counties add up to. A count is not a share: Clark is two thirds of the state and Esmeralda is fifteen votes, so a county picked here is drawn against its own scale and the shape of its filling is the thing to read, not the height. The same picker sits under the share chart below, and the two are independent — a count of one county against a share of the whole state is often the comparison worth having.
One day on its own. The same chart over one day, on that day's own clock, with the two buttons above still in force — so of the day so far here is the day's own curve from nothing, drawn across the width instead of into a fifth of it. It is the same arithmetic and the same points; what changes is how much of the page each hour gets.
The same series differenced: how fast votes were being recorded between one reading and the next, in votes a minute. The readings are not evenly spaced — the state republishes when it republishes — so this is a rate rather than a count, and a tall bar is a busy five minutes rather than a long one. It measures the counties' recording, not the queue at the door: a county that uploads in batches shows up as a spike and a lull.
One day on its own. One day of recording, scaled to that day's own busiest minute rather than to the fortnight's — the opening Saturday ran to nearly two hundred a minute and flattens every day after it when they share an axis. This is where the shape of a day shows: the morning rush, the middle, and whether the county kept uploading after the doors shut. A span is dated by where it ends, so the first reading of a morning carries the night behind it.
Each party's share of the in-person vote, four ways, and it opens on the day's own. Of the day so far is the running share a day is building, started again at midnight, which is where you see a day turning out differently from the one before it while it is still happening. Of everything so far is the share of every vote recorded up to that reading, the whole cycle in one line. Between readings is the share of what arrived since the reading before — which is really the share of whichever counties uploaded in that window. Minute by minute takes those batches apart: each county's increase is spread evenly over the minutes since that county last moved, and the counties are then added back together, so one county's hourly upload no longer stands for the whole state for five minutes. A window with less than half a vote a minute in it is left blank — in the first minutes of a morning a single stray ballot would otherwise be drawn as the whole electorate.
The dashed lines are the share of the active roll — what each party would get if everyone turned out alike. A line above its own dash is a party voting in person at more than its weight. Note where the third line sits: of Nevada's active voters are neither Democrat nor Republican, most of them non-partisan, so that bucket starts from a long way up. Smoothing widens the window to an hour centred on each point. An hour is set by the counties, not by the look of the line: Clark and Washoe move every five minutes, but the smaller counties go twenty minutes or half an hour between uploads, and a window narrower than their gap can open and close without them, so it reports the parties of whoever happened to be mid-upload. Nine county uploads in ten follow the one before by under twenty minutes and ninety-eight in a hundred by under an hour, so an hour is the width that nearly always holds one from everybody. Smoothing is off for the two running shares, which are already an average over everything behind them.
The last control picks what the share is of. All of Nevada, any one of the seventeen counties, or CD2 — which is available here because Nevada's second congressional district is made of whole counties. Twelve counties hold 528,858 of their 529,119 active voters in CD2, everything bar 258 in a sliver of Lyon and three in Washoe, and between them they hold all but one of the district's active voters. So adding those twelve up is a read of CD2 to within a few hundred people, which is as close as a county-level feed can get to a district. CD1, CD3 and CD4 cut Clark into three and cannot be done this way at all. Each scope is drawn against its own roll, so the dashes move with the selection. Away from the statewide view the blank rule changes with it: a window holding fewer than thirty votes is left blank, the same count the county panels below use, because half a vote a minute is a rule about Nevada and means nothing in Eureka.
One day on its own. One day's share, on the same vertical scale as the chart above rather than its own. That is deliberate: a share is already comparable between days, and a day stretched to its own ceiling would be the one chart here that made a quiet day look like a swing. All four windows, the smoothing and the scope apply to it unchanged.
The same readings again, one panel a county, on the same clock and with the same choices as the charts above — of everything so far, of the day so far, between readings, or minute by minute, each county's own batches spread over its own minutes rather than the state's. The by-day window earns its place here more than anywhere, which is why the panels open on it: seventeen small panels, each a curve a day from the same midnight, is how you see at a glance which counties held their Saturday on the Sunday and which went dark. Counts draws each panel against its own peak, not against Clark's: on a shared scale fifteen of the seventeen would be flat on the axis. So the heights are not comparable between panels and the shapes are: when a county records, in what size of batch, and which party is moving while it does. The figure in the top corner is that panel's own ceiling, and the one beside the name is the county's running total.
Share by party puts all seventeen on one scale instead, because a share is comparable where a count is not — a county of twelve thousand can be read against Clark, and each against its own roll, the dashes in its panel. The top of that scale is set by the rural counties, which run to seventy and eighty per cent one way where the state runs to fifty, so Clark sits low in its box. A window holding fewer than thirty votes is left blank, because one vote in ten is ten points of share and noise drawn as a line is worse than a gap. That is why the small counties empty out minute by minute — they do not record thirty votes in a minute — and why the smoothing button fills them back in. The hour it widens to is set by how often the counties upload rather than by how the line looks, and it is not enough for all of them: minute by minute it brings nine panels back, where a quarter of an hour brought six, and the eight smallest counties do not record thirty votes in an hour either. Those are read between readings or by the day.
One day on its own. Seventeen panels of one day. Counts are against each panel's own peak for that day, so a county that recorded four hundred on the Saturday and forty on the Monday fills its box both times and the shape stays readable; shares stay on the scale all seventeen share. The figure in the corner of each panel is what that county added on the day, not its running total, and a county that recorded nothing says so rather than drawing a flat line.
A county missing from the feed has not reported, which is not the same as nobody having voted there. of the seventeen are in the latest file.
| Voted in person | Active roll | |||||
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| County | DEM | REP | Other | Total | Voters | Turnout |