Early Voting in New York City Tops 572,786 Heading Into the Final Day, and Saturday Was the Busiest Day Yet

Early voting in New York City goes into its final day with a number the last midterm never approached. Unofficial Board of Elections counts tallied through Saturday, the eighth day of the nine-day period, put check-ins at 572,786 — about 226,000 more than the city had recorded at the same point in 2022, the last governor's race. Sunday is the last chance to vote early: sites are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at each voter's assigned early-voting site only.

Saturday was the period's busiest day by a wide margin. Some 104,683 New Yorkers checked in during its eight hours — about 13,085 an hour, up from 8,496 an hour on Friday and above even the 10,777-an-hour pace of the first Saturday. Brooklyn leads the boroughs with 177,271 check-ins, followed by Manhattan with 160,045 and Queens with 135,095; the Bronx has recorded 57,167 and Staten Island 43,208.

Queens is the borough that changed most. Its 135,095 early voters are nearly double the 70,531 it had posted at this point in 2022, and Queens now accounts for 23.6 percent of the city's check-ins. Citywide, the early vote so far equals 11.5 percent of active registered voters — about 11,000 voters behind last year's mayoral race at this point, and well short of the 940,009 who had voted early by now in the 2024 presidential election, the comparison that shows how much room Election Day still has.

What remains is a two-step finish. Early voting ends at 5 p.m. today, there is no early voting on Monday, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, with polls open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. at each voter's assigned Election Day site — which may be a different building from the early-voting site. A voter in line by 9 p.m. on Tuesday stays in line and votes.