More than 700,000 cast ballots in early voting as NYC mayoral race on track for historic turnout

More than 735,000 New Yorkers cast ballots during the nine days of early voting in this year’s pivotal mayoral race, a staggering turnout that puts the contest on track to potentially generate some of the highest local election turnout in modern city history.

According to tabulations released by the Board of Elections after polls closed citywide at 5 p.m. Sunday, 735,317 residents cast ballots in the mayoral contest since the Oct. 25 start of early voting. That figure doesn’t include tens of thousands of absentee ballots also cast early.

Polling sites will be closed Monday before they reopen for Tuesday’s Election Day, when hundreds of thousands more New Yorkers are expected to come out for what’s widely seen as one of the most consequential mayoral races in decades.

For years, general mayoral elections in New York City typically aren’t especially competitive and draw around 1 million votes total. This year, though, Jerry Skurnik, a veteran New York election expert, told the Daily News he believes turnout in Tuesday’s election could surpass 2 million votes.



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