Election Day in New York City: Polls Open 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. After 690,526 Early Votes
The polls are open across the five boroughs until 9 p.m. Brooklyn led the city in early voting with 219,536 check-ins, and every voter today decides the governor's race, two other statewide offices and five charter questions — at an Election Day poll site that may not be the early-voting site.
Election Day is here. Polls opened at 6 a.m. across the five boroughs and stay open until 9 p.m., the Board of Elections says, closing a campaign that New Yorkers have already joined in record midterm numbers: 690,526 voters checked in during the nine days of early voting that ended Sunday, an unofficial Board of Elections count reported as the final tally on Monday.
Brooklyn cast the most early ballots, 219,536, followed by Manhattan with 188,434 and Queens with 162,914. The Bronx checked in 67,630 early voters and Staten Island 52,012. Those voters are the floor under today's turnout, not the ceiling — Election Day itself remains the biggest single voting day of the cycle, and anyone in line at 9 p.m. tonight may still cast a ballot.
What is on the ballot is the whole state ticket and the city's own constitution. Every city voter decides the race for governor between Gov. Kathy Hochul and Republican Bruce Blakeman, plus the races for state comptroller and attorney general, and — on the back of the ballot — five proposed amendments to the City Charter. Voters can view a sample ballot for their address through the Board of Elections before they go.
Two mechanics matter more than any other today. First, your Election Day poll site is assigned to your own election district and may not be where you voted early — the board's instruction, repeated all week, is to check it at FindMyPollsite.Vote.NYC before leaving home. Second, a mail ballot is still good if it is postmarked by today and received by November 10, or if it is dropped off by 9 p.m. tonight at any poll site in your borough or at your borough Board of Elections office. Voters who run into a problem at a poll site can call the state Attorney General's election protection hotline. The first results come after the 9 p.m. close; this desk reports them when the board does, and not before.
