Overview
- Board of Elections data show 297,718 early ballots cast through Tuesday, compared with 55,106 at the same point in 2021.
- Voters 55 and older make up slightly more than 51% of early turnout, with ages 65–74 the largest share, while voters 25–34 rose to nearly 18% of Tuesday’s check-ins.
- Brooklyn leads with 92,035 early votes, with Staten Island at 22,417 and the Bronx at 24,919, a pattern an expert said is unfavorable for Andrew Cuomo’s path.
- Zohran Mamdani remains the polling front-runner after winning the Democratic primary, as Cuomo runs as an independent with relative strength among older voters and Curtis Sliwa holds the GOP lane.
- Campaigns cite the numbers to rally supporters—Mamdani touting 95,000 volunteers, Cuomo and Sliwa calling the surge encouraging—while analysts note limited early-vote history and say overall turnout could be the highest since 1993 if the pace continues.