More New Yorkers have already voted in Tuesday’s election than in all of 2021 — with the Big Apple on track to break even more historic records in the widely watched race.
By afternoon Tuesday, some 1.19 million voters had already checked in to cast their ballots in the widely-watched mayoral race, Board of Elections figures show.
Voter turnout had already surpassed the 2021 mayoral election by early afternoon Tuesday. REUTERS
Voters wait in line to fill out their ballots in Brooklyn on Election Day. REUTERS
Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani voting with his wife Rama Duwaji at Frank Sinatra School of Arts High School in Astoria. James Keivom
A total of 1.15 million people voted in the last mayoral election — including just over 250,000 early and mail-in ballots.
Some 462,000 people had voted by midday Tuesday while just under 900,000 New Yorkers turned up on Election Day in 2021 when Mayor Eric Adams eventually secured the win.
Andrew Cuomo went to vote along with his daughters in Brooklyn Tuesday morning. AP
Polling locations across all five boroughs weren’t set to shut until 9 p.m.
As of midday, just over 395,000 had cast votes in Brooklyn and 328,000 in Manhattan, according to the Board of Elections. Queens trailed behind with 276,000, the Bronx with 111,000 and Staten Island with 82,000.
Democratic socialist nominee Zohran Mamdani, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, all voted first thing Tuesday.
“I voted for Cuomo. I like him. He’s trying to follow in his father’s footsteps, keeping the legacy going,” Omar Edwards, a 46 year-old engineer, told The Post at a Brooklyn polling location.
“My mother voted for Zohran. I know nothing about the man. You want to defund the police, tax the rich – that’s the Z-man. That’s all I know about him.”
Meanwhile, Adrian Buckmaster, 70, and his 56-year-old partner, Irene Delgado, both backed Mamdani.
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“Zohran is a breath of fresh air,” Buckmaster said. “I think he’s straight and honest. He walks the walk. I hope it works.”
“If he gets in by a good margin, I think it’ll change how people see politics. It’ll give the right a big jolt. It’s telling how they are rallying against him,” he added.
In a last ditch effort to sway New Yorkers, Cuomo trashed Mamdani’s rhetoric and argued a ballot for Sliwa was a wasted vote – soon after President Trump threw his support behind the former governor on the eve of the election.
COP candidate Curtis Sliwa joined his wife Nancy when she voted Tuesday morning on W 72st. Robert Miller
A New York City voter casts a vote alongside her two patient dogs in Manhattan Tuesday. REUTERS
“President Trump saying to the Republicans, ‘Don’t vote for Sliwa, you are wasting your vote,’ that could be very helpful,” Cuomo told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
“President Trump is pragmatic. He is telling them the reality of the situation, which is if you do not vote, Mamdani is going to win. Republicans, you have to get up and come out and vote. Even if you are not voting Republican, you are voting to save New York City.
“It’s all B.S. It’s all campaign rhetoric,” Cuomo added of Mamdani’s promises.
Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts