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NYC General Election Turnout, 1953–2025: Ballots Cast, Registered Voters and Ballots per Adult Citizen, with Boroughs and Early Voting from 2022

Aggregate statistics from the article “New York City's mayoral turnout nearly doubled in 2025, to 39 in every hundred adult citizens, the most for a mayor since 1993”

No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.

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Aggregate statistics
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New York City
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1.0,
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CC BY 4.0; code MIT
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New York City's mayoral turnout nearly doubled in 2025, to 39 in every hundred adult citizens, the most for a mayor since 1993 (version 1.0)

Two million ballots in the 2025 mayoral election, the most for a mayor since 1969: 39 per hundred adult citizens, nearly double 2021's and above any mayoral race since 1993.

What it shows

The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: NYC Board of Elections annual reports: the General Elections Turnout table, 1953-2022 (2022 report, checked against the 2006 report), the November summaries by borough, 2022-2025, and the 2019 report on early voting; the Board's early-voting check-ins for the 2026 general election to date and for the 2020-2025 general elections (Internet Archive copies); the State's enrollment by county, party and status, 20 February 2025 and 20 February 2026; census 1990 and 2000 PUMS and ACS one-year PUMS 2006-2024 (adult citizens; 2005 left out); the Census Bureau's population estimates for the boroughs, revised to the 2020 census; ACS 2024 Table B29001; the Board's 2026 calendar, registration deadlines and voter qualifications; the Commission on Government Efficiency's release of 13 October 2026; the Census Bureau's 2026 ACS update.

Files

Each file's columns are under Columns below and in data_dictionary.csv.

FileRowsSizeWhat it holds
data.csv 411 30 KB The data
analysis.py 34 KB The analysis script

Columns

data.csv: The data (14 columns)

The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.

table, year, area, kind, citywide, ballots, registered_or_active, pct_printed, adult_citizens, adult_citizens_basis, per_100_adult_citizens, early_voting_day, date, checkins_cumulative_unofficial. The article and its script define each one.

Licence and credit

Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.

Credit it as:

SparkyData (2026). NYC General Election Turnout, 1953–2025: Ballots Cast, Registered Voters and Ballots per Adult Citizen, with Boroughs and Early Voting from 2022 (version 1.0). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-general-election-turnout-per-adult-citizen
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The article gives the charts, the uncertainty of each comparison and its own changelog. Corrections and questions: sparkytech.dev@gmail.com, or see corrections.