Staten Island leads early vote by turnout percentage. Map after the link.
The high turnout comes amid a hotly contested three-way race for mayor between Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. The candidates could feel the sense of urgency on Monday, as each said they were not close to being done campaigning yet in the final eight days of the race.
"I will not allow myself to become complacent," said Mamdani, the Democratic nominee whose campaign sent out an email blast earlier in the day stressing that the "highest number of early voters so far are in age brackets where Cuomo either ties or leads."
Cuomo, running as an independent, stressed they "need New Yorkers to turn out."
It comes as a new poll showed the race tightening even more, with Cuomo seemingly cutting into Mamdani's lead: Mamdani had 44% of the vote, while Cuomo had 34% and Sliwa, the Republican, had 11%.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/nyc-early-voting-monday-strong-turnout-mayor-election/6410519/