{"id":222189,"date":"2026-06-18T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222189\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:24:15","slug":"early-voting-erie-county-announces-day-5-numbers-for-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222189\/","title":{"rendered":"Early voting: Erie County announces Day 5 numbers for primary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early voting is underway in Erie County, and election officials just released the latest numbers.<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 The Erie County Board of Elections on Wednesday released the Day 5 total for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">primary election<\/a> early voting.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 932 ballots were cast on the fifth day of early voting for the June 23 primary elections, according to the Erie County Board of Elections commissioners, Ralph Mohr and Howard Johnson Jr.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of the five-day vote total came from Democrats. According to election officials, 4,411 ballots have been cast by Democrats, compared to only 22 by Republicans and 16 from Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Elections also provided a running breakdown of participation in several races, including:<\/p>\n<p>1,163 in the 23rd Congressional District Democratic primary;2,226 in the 61st Senate District Democratic primary;1,035 in the 149th Assembly District Democratic primary;19 in the Republican primary for Collins town justice.                    <\/p>\n<p>Election officials said the &#8220;total ballot styles&#8221; cast in these races is 4,443, explaining that the number exceeds the total ballots counted because some voters are eligible to participate in multiple contests due to overlapping district boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Reported totals also include ballots cast in the statewide Democratic primary for New York State Comptroller, plus various county committee contests involving Democratic, Republican, and Conservative parties in Buffalo, Amherst, and Grand Island.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting runs through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>All 38 early voting sites will be open from noon to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Eligible voters may cast their ballot at any early voting location, regardless of where they live in the county.<\/p>\n<p>For additional details, including polling locations and information about the June 23 primary elections, voters can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.erie.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">elections.erie.gov<\/a> or call 716-858-8891, according to the Board of Elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting is underway in Erie County, and election officials just released the latest numbers. BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-222189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}