In New York City, Early Voting Saw Major Changes From 2025
A year after a record surge of young voters helped drive Mayor Zohran Mamdani to victory, turnout appears to be snapping back into a more typical pattern, as New York City voters decide a series of combative Democratic primaries.
About 172,000 people cast their ballots during this year’s early in-person voting period, which ended on Sunday. That was a sharp but expected drop from the nearly 400,000 voters who turned out during the same period in 2025 when Mr. Mamdani was on the ballot in a high-profile mayoral race against Andrew Cuomo.
In a more notable shift, the early voters were markedly older, with the average age of voters rising by a full decade — to 57 from 47 — compared with early voting last year.
Those trends may not carry over to the overall electorate as Primary Day votes pour in on Tuesday. For now, though, the turnout and average age are a cause for concern for Mr. Mamdani and some of the leftist candidates he has campaigned for in competitive races for congressional and state legislative seats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/nyregion/nyc-early-voting.html