Ken Wilson and Carla Drummond forged their ballots for Cuomo.
Photograph by Shea Vance
The primary weekend of early voting within the 2025 NYC mayoral normal election noticed greater than 160,000 individuals forged their ballots over two days, based on town’s Board of Elections.
The BOE reported on Sunday night 164,190 voter check-ins throughout the 5 boroughs by way of the primary two days of early voting that wrapped up at 5 p.m. on Oct. 26. Brooklyn and Manhattan dominated the turnout numbers, with Brooklyn having 49,432 check-ins and Manhattan barely behind with 49,191.
Queens got here in third with 38,791 check-ins, adopted by the Bronx at 14,225 and Staten Island with 12,551.
The robust numbers proceed a document turnout for early voting in a mayoral election. First-day participation in 2025 was greater than quadruple that of 2021 (31,176 by way of the primary two days), the final time New Yorkers elected a mayor.
With 9 days to go till Election Day in New York Metropolis, voters continued to prove in pressure Sunday on day two of early voting.
Based on information from the NYC Board of Elections, the beginning of early voting marked a document turnout, with first-day participation greater than quadrupling in comparison with early voting in 2021 — the final time New Yorkers voted for mayor. Manhattan noticed about 5 instances as many citizens on Saturday because the borough noticed on day one in 2021.
Individuals wait to forged their vote within the normal election in Brooklyn on Oct. 25, 2025.Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
Many citizens who spoke to New York News on Sunday in Morningside Heights and Harlem expressed help for frontrunner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani whereas others expressed robust help for unbiased candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Help for Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa appeared skinny on the bottom.
Within the Democratic main, each Morningside Heights and Harlem swung for Mamdani, and the 2 neighborhoods have historically favored Democrats on the whole elections.
Sliwa, although not anticipated to search out a lot help in Democratic areas like higher Manhattan, has ratcheted up help in comparison with the final time he ran in 2021 and is seeing help elsewhere within the metropolis, polling constantly between 10% and 20% — Mamdani leads the sector in most polls by double digits whereas Cuomo is coming in second.
One voter whom New York News spoke to on Saturday within the Decrease East Aspect, additionally a Democratic stronghold, stated they opted for Sliwa within the race after a lifetime of voting for Democrats.
At P.S. 175 in Harlem, Sara Serpa and Andre Matos forged their ballots for Mamdani.
“I think he has a vision, there’s hope in him, and he’s fighting for the right causes,” Serpa stated. “First time we have a candidate that speaks well, elaborates thoughts, and again, has a vision for the city, which the other candidates don’t have.”
Andre Matos and Sara Serpa forged their ballots for Mamdani.
Serpa was significantly excited by Mamdani’s plans for “affordable housing, justice and social rights, and making the city affordable for everyone who lives here.”
Carla Drummond and Ken Wilson forged their ballots for Cuomo, citing his political expertise in comparison with the opposite candidates.
“I just believe that he’s going to be able to give Trump the most pushback,” Wilson stated. Drummond echoed the sentiment.
Within the main, Cuomo made opposition to President Donald Trump a cornerstone of his marketing campaign, arguing that his expertise working with the president throughout his days as governor — when Trump was serving his first time period in workplace — make him the appropriate selection for a metropolis being more and more focused by the federal authorities.
All through the overall election, Cuomo has in contrast his relationship to Trump to that of a “dysfunctional marriage.” Although Trump has not endorsed a candidate, he strongly opposes Mamdani.
Cori Harris voted for Democrats down the poll — save for Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg. Although Harris forged her poll for Mamdani, she stated she was intrigued by Sliwa’s candidacy and would have thought-about voting for him if he weren’t a Republican.
Early voting stays open each day in New York Metropolis’s 5 boroughs till Nov. 2, two days earlier than the overall election on Nov. 4. Along with casting their ballots for mayor, voters are contemplating numerous candidates for different elected workplaces and a menu of poll propositions. Discover your early voting website on the NYC Board of Elections web site, findmypollsite.vote.nyc.
