Nearly 80,000 Vote Day 1 in NYC Early Voting

Early in-person voting opened Oct. 25 and runs through Nov. 2 across New York and New Jersey; nearly 80,000 New Yorkers (79,409 check‑ins) cast ballots on the first day of the 2025 NYC mayoral contest, more than quadruple the first day in 2021, with Manhattan (24,046), Brooklyn (22,105), Queens (19,045), the Bronx (7,793) and Staten Island (6,420) leading the surge. The turnout spike has been seen as a sign of potentially much higher overall participation as former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (running as an independent), Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani and Republican Curtis Sliwa vie to replace incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who withdrew and endorsed Cuomo. Voters at sites across the five boroughs cited affordability and housing, public safety and crime, homelessness, schools, immigration and transit as top concerns. All three major campaigns made public appearances on Day 1. Early voting in NYC continues through Nov. 2 ahead of Nov. 4 Election Day, when polls will be open 6 a.m.–9 p.m. Elsewhere in New York, Erie County reported 4,253 first‑day ballots (1,003 in Buffalo), and other jurisdictions including Richmond and San Diego expanded weekend or early vote centers to ease Election Day crowds.