New York City had more than 735,000 early-voting ballots cast as of November 2, 2025.
November 02, 2025
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Early-voting total reported by city election officials ahead of the 2025 general election.
New York City recorded 1,089,328 early, in-person votes in the 2024 general election (November 5, 2024).
November 05, 2024
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Total early, in-person votes reported for New York City in the 2024 U.S. general election.
The 2021 New York City mayoral general election had 169,879 in-person early voting ballots cast (November 2, 2021).
November 02, 2021
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Early, in-person voting total reported for the 2021 New York City mayoral general election.
Scheduling local elections to coincide with presidential election years is a policy measure intended to increase voter turnout.
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Rationale for consolidating election dates to boost participation
Early voting allows voters to cast ballots before Election Day and is used to reduce problems on Election Day and to increase voter participation.
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Early voting as an electoral mechanism to improve access and resiliency of voting
Fusion voting is a practice that allows a single candidate to appear on an election ballot under multiple political party labels.
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Explains why a candidate's name can appear more than once on a ballot.
Under fusion voting, a voter may cast at most one vote for a given candidate even if that candidate appears multiple times on the ballot under different party lines.
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Clarifies how votes are counted when a candidate is listed on multiple party lines.