Election Day 2026: Photos from around the country
An NPR gallery by Meredith Nierman captures voting and other election scenes in communities across the United States, including polling places, ballot lines and drop-off activity.
By StoryBreak
Published November 4, 2026 at 11:01 AM EST
A photo gallery published Nov. 3, 2026, offers a visual look at the 2026 midterm elections in communities across the United States. Meredith Nierman is credited with the work, and NPR is identified as the originating organization.
The images show voters filling out ballots at Chicago’s McKinley Park Library and people waiting to vote at University Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. In Herndon, Virginia, Tyler Prehn is pictured placing his father’s ballot into a tabulator at Lutie Lewis Coates Elementary School.
Other scenes include a ballot drop box in Portland’s Multnomah County and voters waiting inside Barre Municipal Auditorium in Vermont. In Denver, miniature voting booths were set up for students at Clayton Early Learning.
The gallery also identifies election-related scenes in Fairfax County, St. Louis, Des Moines, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Hartford, Manchester, Hastings, Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the photographs show the range of settings where voting activity took place on Election Day.
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