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Nearly 40 Percent of Orange County Has Already Voted — 324,987 Ballots In Before Election Day

At least 324,987 Orange County voters have already cast ballots for the 2026 midterms, according to Supervisor of Elections data reported by Florida Politics — a share that surpasses the county's 2022 early turnout before a single Election Day vote is cast.

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Nearly 40 Percent of Orange County Has Already Voted — 324,987 Ballots In Before Election Day (Orlando Watch News)

Orange County goes into Election Day with nearly four in ten of its voters already counted as having voted. At least 324,987 registered voters in the county have already cast their ballots for the 2026 midterm election, according to Orange County Supervisor of Elections data reported by Florida Politics — nearly 40 percent of registered voters, and a total that surpasses the county's 2022 early turnout. Early voting ran through Sunday, Nov. 1, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 27 locations across the county, and mail ballots returned before the deadline sit in the same already-voted column.

What remains on Tuesday is the Election Day electorate itself: polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m., and under Florida law anyone in line by 7 p.m. may vote. Unlike early voting, when any county voter could use any of the 27 sites, Election Day voters must vote at their assigned precinct's polling place — the Supervisor of Elections' lookup at voteorangefl.gov, or the office at 119 West Kaley Street, can confirm it, and the office lists 407-836-2070 for polling-place assistance.

Three precincts vote at different locations on Tuesday than in past elections — precincts 109, 726 and 729 — a change this station detailed in full in its earlier Election Day polling-places file, and one more reason to confirm an assigned location before leaving home rather than driving to a familiar building out of habit. With turnout already past the last midterm's early mark, Tuesday's lines will decide how far past it Orange County finishes.

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