{"id":391312,"date":"2026-11-02T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391312\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:46:08","slug":"nyc-early-voting-numbers-surge-for-2026-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391312\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC early voting numbers surge for 2026 Midterm Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early voting numbers in New York City surged for the 2026 Midterm Elections this year, jumping 60% compared to the last midterm race four years ago.<\/p>\n

In 2022, more than 432,000 people cast their votes during the early voting period.<\/a>, This year, over 690,000 did so, according to numbers from the city\u2019s Board of Elections.<\/p>\n

Election Day is Tuesday, with the governor\u2019s race<\/a> showdown between incumbent Kathy Hochul and GOP challenger Bruce Blakeman at the top of the ballot for those in New York City. Nationally, the question of whether the Democrats can gain control of the House or Senate is the main focus of voters\u2019 attention.<\/p>\n

Early voting closed in NYC on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great. Keep voting, 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. And if you see a poll worker say thank you because they\u2019ve been working so hard,\u201d Mayor Mamdani, who has pounded the pavement with Hochul in the final days of her re-election race, said of the early voting numbers on Monday.<\/p>\n

The surge could reflect voter enthusiasm and an uptick of registered voters amid broad concern over Donald Trump\u2019s second term as president. It also may be attributed to New Yorkers getting increasingly comfortable with early voting, which was first introduced in 2019.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s numbers are still below last year\u2019s, when New Yorkers headed to the polls for the high-stakes mayoral election between Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. More than 735,000 people cast their ballots<\/a> early in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting numbers in New York City surged for the 2026 Midterm Elections this year, jumping 60% compared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2659,85,9,692,12,56,63,65,64,87],"class_list":["post-391312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-election","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-politics","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391312","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=391312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}