{"id":391514,"date":"2026-11-03T01:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391514\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T01:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:10:30","slug":"early-voting-surges-nearly-70-in-ny-more-than-doubles-in-district-to-replace-rep-stefanik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391514\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting surges nearly 70% in NY, more than doubles in district to replace Rep. Stefanik"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early voting in New York skyrocketed nearly 70% compared to four years ago \u2014 and more than doubled in some crucial upstate counties, data released Monday shows.<\/p>\n

Overall, the nine days of early voting totals increased from 1,178,676 in 2022 to 1,965,043 between Oct. 24-Nov. 1, according to the unofficial tally from the State Board of Elections.<\/p>\n

The number of early votes in New York City<\/a> jumped from 432,634 in 2022 to 690,526 this year, a 60% increase.<\/p>\n

\"U.S.The race to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik in the red-leaning 21st House District in North Country has become a competitive contest. Hans Pennink for NY Post<\/p>\n

In the suburbs and rural upstate counties, early voting increased 70%, from 746,042 votes to 1,274,717.<\/p>\n

The most competitive races for Congress<\/a> are in swing suburban and upstate districts, while statewide ballots will include elections for governor, attorney general and comptroller.<\/p>\n

The race to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik in the red-leaning 21st House District in North Country has become such a competitive contest that Vice President JD Vance was stumping there<\/a> Monday with Republican pro-Trump candidate Anthony Constantino to rally the base.<\/p>\n

Constantino, who owns a sticker and decal printing company, faces Democrat Blake Gendebien, a dairy farmer.<\/p>\n

Early voting turnout more than doubled in four counties in the 21st District compared to 2022: Clinton (from 3,930 to 7,323),\u00a0Essex (from 1,457 to 3,460), Oneida (from 8,682 to 17,363), and St. Lawrence (from 2,681 to 6,375).<\/p>\n

Early voting is also up substantially in the heated race for the 17th House District<\/a> in the lower Hudson Valley, where two-term Republican Rep. Mike Lawler faces a tough challenge from Democrat Cait Conley, an Army vet.<\/p>\n

In Rockland County, for example, early voting increased 81% from four years ago \u2014 up 24,355 votes to 44,184.<\/p>\n

Early voting was relatively new in 2022 and those statewide races followed the COVID-19 outbreak, likely discouraging in-person early voting. Still, the size of the increase was noteworthy.<\/p>\n

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs was bullish based on the early returns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks promising for the Democrats. I\u2019d rather be us than them,\u201d Jacobs said, referring to Republicans.<\/p>\n

But state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox said not so fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been urging early voting. Republicans have been coming out in great numbers,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n

At the top of the ticket, Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul faces Republican Bruce Blakeman<\/a>, the current Nassau County executive, in the race for governor.<\/p>\n

In the race for attorney general<\/a>, Republican Saritha Komatireddy is challenging two-term Democratic incumbent Letitia James.<\/p>\n

In the race for comptroller, Republican Joseph Hernandez is running against four-term Democratic incumbent Tom DiNapoli.<\/p>\n

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Election Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting in New York skyrocketed nearly 70% compared to four years ago \u2014 and more than doubled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[424,57,46937,9,24,55,54,56,87,58,4727],"class_list":["post-391514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-elise-stefanik","tag-metro","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-politics","tag-us-news","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391514","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=391514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}