{"id":27097,"date":"2025-11-03T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27097\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:00:08","slug":"nearly-1-2-million-new-yorkers-took-voted-early-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/27097\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1.2 million New Yorkers took voted early in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1.2 million people took part in early voting for the 2025 general elections in New York state, according to state Board of Elections numbers released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,187,545 state residents voted early between Oct. 25 and Nov. 2. The highest turnout day was the last day, on Sunday, Nov. 2 with 222,901 votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>About 735,317 early votes came from New York City voters, who are deciding the next mayor there in a high-profile race watched nationally. Outside of the city, 452,228 early votes were cast.<\/p>\n<p>In upstate&#8217;s more populous counties, 37,170 people voted early in Erie County; 31,174 voted early in Monroe County; 15,766 voted early in Albany County; and 17,218 voted early in Onondaga County.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s total is more than those who voted early in the last off-year election in 2023, when more than 231,000 people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2023\/11\/03\/more-than-231k-vote-early-so-far-in-new-york-2023-elections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted early during the entire window it was available.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early voting first came into practice in New York in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Voters can still cast ballots on Election Day, which is Tuesday. Polls are open across New York from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Spectrum News 1 will have full election coverage beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 1.2 million people took part in early voting for the 2025 general elections in New York state,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,113,256,257,111,199,270,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,115,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-27097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-capital-region","12":"tag-central-ny","13":"tag-decision-2025","14":"tag-hudson-valley","15":"tag-luke-parsnow","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-headlines","19":"tag-new-york-news","20":"tag-new-york-state","21":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","22":"tag-new-york-state-news","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-rochester","27":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}