Nearly a quarter of NYC's early voters were new Democratic primary participants

More than double the number of New Yorkers cast ballots during the nine days of early voting compared to four years ago, including a substantial number of first-time voters, according to a new analysis of turnout data.

A total of 385,184 New Yorkers voted early in this primary election, compared to 191,197 in 2021.

Nearly 25% of early voters had not voted in a Democratic primary at any point between 2012 and 2024, according to an analysis of voter history by John Mollenkopf, director of the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center. That makes them new participants in this type of election, even if they may have voted in other races before.

Those figures represent a significant change from the 2021 Democratic mayoral primary, when 3% of early voters had never voted in a Democratic primary.




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