Election Day 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Tuesday, 7 November 2028, 802 days after 28 August 2026. This page is kept whichever side of today the date falls on: the date and the rule behind it are worth looking up either way. For the year after this one see Next Election Day, and for the always-current countdown see the next Election Day.
Election Day 2028 is Tuesday, 7 November 2028
There are 802 days between 28 August 2026 and Election Day 2028, which falls on Tuesday, 7 November 2028. That is 114 weeks and 4 days, or 548 working days once Saturdays, Sundays and the US federal holidays in between are taken out — the figure that matters if you are counting delivery lead time or a work schedule rather than sleeps. The date is 2028-11-07 in ISO form and 11/7/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 45 of 2028, and it is day 312 of 366.
How the date of Election Day is decided
The Tuesday after the first Monday in November, so it falls between 2 and 8 November. It occurs in even-numbered years for federal elections; odd years have state and local elections on the same rule.
That makes it a floating date: it is pinned to a weekday rather than to a day number, so it is always a Tuesday but the date moves. In 2028 that is 7 November.
Election Day is an observance rather than a federal holiday. Offices, banks and schools stay open unless an individual employer chooses otherwise, and it counts as an ordinary business day in every calculator here. Only the eleven federal holidays are treated as non-working days — the list and the reasoning are on the holiday sources page.
Election Day in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 6 November 2029 | Tuesday | Next Election Day |
| 2030 | 5 November 2030 | Tuesday | Next Election Day |
| 2031 | 4 November 2031 | Tuesday | Next Election Day |
The weekday never changes; only the date does, inside the November window the rule allows.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the methodology page, including how we count the 548 working days above.