Early Voting in New York City: Final Weekend Hours, Poll Sites and the November 3 Ballot
Early voting ends Sunday, November 1, and New Yorkers are turning out at a pace far ahead of the last gubernatorial election. Here are the weekend hours, how to find your assigned site, and what Election Day looks like on Tuesday.
New York City voters have two days left to vote early. The city Board of Elections lists early voting hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1, the final day of the early voting period that opened October 24. Election Day follows on Tuesday, November 3, when polls across the city are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Turnout so far is running well ahead of the last gubernatorial cycle. Board of Elections figures reported this week put 294,604 city residents at early voting sites in the first four days, Saturday through Wednesday — an increase of nearly 72 percent over the same point in that election. The Bronx more than held its share of the surge, logging more than 30,000 early votes through Tuesday against about 16,000 in 2022, while Manhattan recorded about 82,000 and Brooklyn about 86,000 in the first four days.
The Board assigns every voter a specific early voting site, and it may not be the place that voter normally uses on Election Day. The Board's poll site locator shows a voter's early voting site, Election Day site and sample ballot in one place, and the Board also publishes a live wait-time map for early voting sites. Voters who miss the early window keep the standard Election Day protection: anyone in line by 9 p.m. on Tuesday gets to vote.
Tuesday's ballot carries the statewide races for governor and lieutenant governor, attorney general and comptroller, along with each voter's picks for Congress, the State Legislature and judgeships, and five yes-or-no charter questions on the back of the ballot. Poll workers staff the early sites through 5 p.m. Sunday; after that, the next chance to cast a ballot in person is Election Day itself.
