The Boomer boom fueling early voting turnout in NYC mayor's race
New York City’s mayoral election is shaping up to be a generational battle at the ballot box, with older voters continuing to drive heavy turnout as younger voters show up in increasing numbers.
A total of 297,718 cast their ballots through the end of day Tuesday, according to Board of Elections data. That surpasses the 169,879 people who voted early during the entire nine-day period four years ago, a sign of an unusually competitive general election and an engaged electorate.
Voters 55 and older currently make up slightly more than 51% of the early voting turnout, with the largest single share of the vote coming from voters 65 to 74 years old, according to a Gothamist analysis.
Voters 25 to 34 make up 16% of the total early voting turnout. But on Tuesday, voters in this bracket made up nearly 18% of the daily turnout, the first time this cycle that younger voters made up a larger percentage than voters 55 to 64, who came in at 17%.
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