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Voters at the polls (photograph: Michael Appleton/Mayor'due south Office)

UPDATE equally of November 15: Voter Turnout in New York City Jumped vii.5% from 2016 to 2020

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Original article from November iii:

While concluding results and tallies are however unknown, it appears that the 2020 ballot has seen an increment in voter turnout in New York, as it has across the country.

As of November 1, the New York State Board of Elections reported there were 5.57 million registered voters in New York Metropolis, among 13.56 1000000 across the state. It appears there will be more than than two.eight million votes cast in the metropolis this general election, but the concluding tally volition be heavily dependent upon how many absentee votes are cast and counted. Roughly six,495,194 were cast in the presidential race across the country as of election night, according to the Land Board of Elections.

In the 2016 presidential ballot, 2.76 million voters bandage ballots in New York City -- roughly 56% of registered voters at the fourth dimension -- out of a full 7.eight one thousand thousand votes cast statewide, a 62% turnout charge per unit.

In the 2012 presidential election 2.47 million votes were bandage in New York City, for a 53% turnout rate, out of 7.thirteen meg votes across the state, practiced for 59% turnout. In 2008, when Barack Obama was get-go elected president, there were 2.6 million votes bandage in New York Urban center, a 57% turnout, out of 7.7 one thousand thousand votes cast across the country, or 64% turnout.

This yr, it appears the urban center will likely surpass its 2016 vote total, though not necessarily its turnout rate. Vote counting is ongoing, specially amid an unprecedented expansion of absentee voting, where eligibility was fabricated universal due to the coronavirus.

After polls closed on Election Twenty-four hours, Nov iii, the city Board of Elections reported a total of 2,346,302 votes cast between the nine-twenty-four hours early on voting period and Ballot Day in-person votes. That number includes more than than 1.1 meg New York Urban center voters who cast ballots during the country's get-go early on voting period to occur during a general election for president.

Meanwhile, more than 1 million absentee ballots were requested in the city, and more than 550,000 had been returned by voters and received by the Board of Elections as of numbers released on Election Day, with another day for such ballots to be received in the mail. If almost of those ballots are valid, the city could hit and surpass ii.8 million votes. Turnout of 2.8 million would exist about fifty% of the 5.57 million registered voters in the urban center (well-nigh 600,000 of whom have been accounted inactive due to a lack of recent participation in elections).

In-person voting totals across New York State striking 6,495,194 on election night, per the Country Board of Elections, with hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots still to be counted. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris received 55.xvi% of the vote, with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence receiving 42.viii%. In New York City, Biden and Harris received roughly 73% of the presidential/vice presidential race votes, with Donald Trump and Mike Pence getting near 26%.

More than than 287,338 of the votes across the country (170,000 in New York City alone) for Biden and Harris came on the Working Families Party ballot line, which means the party hit the new state threshold and volition continue to accept an automatic ballot line moving frontwards, for at least two more years. Trump and Pence received 249,078 of their votes across the state on the Conservative Party line, helping it to as well hit the threshold to go on its line. The fate of other small-scale political parties' election lines looks doomed.

New York City's general election early on voting numbers dwarfed early on voting turnout in the June primaries -- when simply 52,000 people took advantage of the pick citywide -- and the roughly 60,000 people who bandage early on ballots terminal autumn, when in that location was fiddling on the ballot and early voting was get-go offered in New York.

Only non all boroughs saw the same enthusiasm for early on voting this twelvemonth. Brooklyn saw a relatively high early turnout rate of almost 22% of registered voters, while the Bronx and Queens showed the lowest participation with roughly 18%, each (Manhattan vicious in between with nineteen% turnout). Staten Island was an early voting outlier with 30% of its registered voters participating. The disparity may take something to practise with the availability of early voting poll sites. Staten Isle had the fewest number of early on polling locations just the lowest ratio of sites to registered voters: about 35,000 voters per location on boilerplate. That ratio was more than doubled in Manhattan and Queens, and the Bronx and Brooklyn each had ratios to a higher place one site per l,000 voters.

Just Staten Island'due south participation rates are often college than other boroughs and this year's gap may also have had to do with hosting the only competitive congressional race in the city. In New York's 11th Congressional Commune, spanning all of Staten Island and some of Southern Brooklyn, incumbent Rep. Max Rose, a first-term Democrat, is facing off in a biting battle with Republican Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis. The challenger holds a large pb as of election nighttime and declared victory, while Rose pointed to potentially fifty,000 absentee votes even so to be counted and did not concede.

Without any absentee ballots counted in the race, 236,008 votes had been tallied on ballot night, with Malliotakis taking 136,382 of them, adept for nigh 58% to Rose's 42% and 99,224 votes.

Roughly 192,000 voters in the district went to the polls when Rose was elected in 2018, defeating incumbent GOP Rep. Dan Donovan, while 232,000 voters bandage ballots in the race that gave Donovan the seat in the last presidential election.

A similar dynamic is playing out in Land Senate District 22, where first-term incumbent Democrat Andrew Gounardes is being challenged by Republican Vito Bruno. In that district, which covers parts of southern Brooklyn, Gounardes beat then-long-fourth dimension incumbent Marty Golden, a Republican, in a 2018 race with 66,000 total votes -- just three-quarters of the turnout in 2016, when Golden ran unopposed.

Without absentee ballots counted in that race, 75,293 votes had been tallied as of election night, and Bruno led with xl,621 votes, skilful for almost 54%, to Gounardes' 34,586 votes, or near 46%.

There are many more than numbers to crisis in the coming days and weeks, specially as the absentee ballots are counted.

"There are going to be people who haven't voted earlier," said Jerry Skurnik, a veteran political consultant who runs the Prime number New York firm, in an interview with Gotham Gazette. "I think at that place are ii reasons for it. One is the interest in elections and politics because of Trump. And the fact that information technology'due south easier to vote this yr...Beingness able to vote absentee without having to really be out of boondocks, or being able to early vote without having to wait online today is a lot more user-friendly."

According to an analysis of voter history information from Prime number New York, about a quarter of the roughly 850,000 primary voters in New York City had not voted in a previous primary over the last 10 years. Prime New York will somewhen carry the same assay of the general election.

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by Ben Max and Ethan Geringer-Sameth
@GothamGazette