Voting in the U.S. Presidential Election closed at 1 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday (11:30 a.m. Wednesday Sri Lanka time), as the final voters on the remote island of Adak in the state of Alaska cast their ballots, U.S. media reported.

The U.S. is split into six time zones with Alaska being the farthest state westward, hence the different times that polls close.
Early results show no surprises with both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump winning states that they were expected to win. Trump takes the 2nd and 3rd largest states of Texas and Florida.

The U.S. is the world’s second-largest democracy in terms of number of voters, with its 240 million registered voters being second to India’s 968 million. In the last presidential election in 2020, 65.9% of registered voters cast their ballots.

The latest polls prior to the election showed a close battle between the Democratic Party candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and the Republican Party candidate former President Donald Trump.