Early Voting Final Numbers: 690,526 New Yorkers Checked In, and Brooklyn Led Every Borough
The Board of Elections' official count is final: 690,526 early check-ins across the five boroughs in nine days, 117,740 of them on the last day alone. Brooklyn cast the most, with 219,536.
Early voting in New York City now has its official shape. The Board of Elections' check-in page closed Sunday night with an unofficial cumulative total of 690,526 voters across the five boroughs over the nine days from October 24 to November 1 — and the final day was the biggest of the nine, adding 117,740 check-ins between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Sunday alone.
Brooklyn led the city from start to finish and was never caught: 219,536 check-ins, ahead of Manhattan's 188,434 and Queens' 162,914. The Bronx recorded 67,630 and Staten Island 52,012. The shape of the week is in the board's own daily table — a slow build through the middle of the week, 400,137 by Thursday night, and then the weekend surge that carried the total past half a million on Saturday and to its final number on Sunday.
Two cautions belong on the record, and the board's own label supplies the first: the figures are unofficial check-ins as of the close of polls, a count of people who voted early, not of votes for anyone. New York counts no ballots before Tuesday night. The second is the calendar: there is no early voting on Monday. For the New Yorkers who have not yet voted, the election now has exactly one day left in it — Tuesday, November 3, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., at each voter's assigned Election Day poll site, which may not be the site where they would have voted early.
