diff --git a/src/cogs/election.py b/src/cogs/election.py
index b490787..9a71cc4 100644
--- a/src/cogs/election.py
+++ b/src/cogs/election.py
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ This module is only meant to be loaded during election times.
 import asyncio
 import datetime
 import logging
+import random
 import re
 
 import discord
 import httpx
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
-from discord.ext import commands
+from discord.ext import commands, tasks
 
 
 SPAN_REGEX = re.compile(
@@ -39,10 +40,66 @@ class ElectionCog(commands.Cog):
         "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 "
                       "Safari/537.36",
     }
+    ETA = datetime.datetime(
+        2024,
+        7,
+        4,
+        23,
+        30,
+        tzinfo=datetime.datetime.now().astimezone().tzinfo
+    )
 
     def __init__(self, bot):
-        self.bot = bot
+        self.bot: commands.Bot = bot
         self.log = logging.getLogger("jimmy.cogs.election")
+        self.countdown_message = None
+        self.check_election.start()
+
+    def cog_unload(self) -> None:
+        self.check_election.cancel()
+
+    @tasks.loop(minutes=1)
+    async def check_election(self):
+        if not self.bot.is_ready():
+            await self.bot.wait_until_ready()
+
+        guild = self.bot.get_guild(994710566612500550)
+        if not guild:
+            return self.log.error("Nonsense guild not found. Can't do countdown.")
+        channel = discord.utils.get(guild.text_channels, name="countdown")
+        if not channel:
+            return self.log.error("Countdown channel not found.")
+
+        await asyncio.sleep(random.randint(0, 10))
+        now = discord.utils.utcnow()
+        diff = (self.ETA - now).total_seconds()
+        if diff < -86400:
+            return self.log.debug("Countdown long expired.")
+
+        if diff > 3600:
+            hours, remainder = map(round, divmod(diff, 3600))
+            minutes, seconds = map(round, divmod(remainder, 60))
+            message = f"+ {hours} hours, {minutes} minutes, and {seconds} seconds."
+        elif diff > 60:
+            minutes, seconds = map(round, divmod(diff, 60))
+            message = f"+ {minutes} minutes and {seconds} seconds."
+        elif diff >= 0:
+            message = f"+ {round(diff)} seconds."
+        else:
+            message = "Results time!"
+
+        if self.countdown_message:
+            try:
+                return await self.countdown_message.edit(
+                    content=f"```diff\n{message}```"
+                )
+            except discord.HTTPException:
+                self.log.exception("Failed to edit countdown message.")
+        self.countdown_message = await channel.send(
+            f"```diff\n{message}```"
+        )
+        self.log.debug("Sent countdown message")
+
 
     def process_soup(self, soup: BeautifulSoup) -> dict[str, list[int]] | None:
         good_soup = soup.find(attrs={"data-testid": "election-banner-results-bar"})