NYC Voting by Method, 1996–2024 (Election Day, Early, Mail), with Early-Voting Check-Ins by Day and Borough, 2020–2026, and Ballots by Kind, 2022–2025
Aggregate statistics from the article “New York City's in-person Election Day share fell from 96 in 100 before 2019 to about half in 2024”
No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.
- Records
- Aggregate statistics
- Place
- New York City
- Version
- 1.0,
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0; code MIT
In the Board's count, a third of 2025's ballots were cast early; the survey's long view puts in-person Election Day voting at 96% before 2019 and 47% in 2024.
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: CPS November Voting and Registration Supplements, every even-year November election 1996-2024 (public-use files; 1996-2008 as mirrored by NBER): how each voter said they voted; the Census Bureau's Table 4b for New York State, 2018 and 2024, and Table 14, the nation's voters by method, 2024; the NYC Board of Elections' early-voting check-ins for every general election 2020-2025 (Internet Archive copies) and 2026 to date, its yearly borough summaries of ballots by kind 2022-2025, its turnout records and its 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025 annual reports; the Board's 2026 election calendar.
Files
Each file's columns are under Columns below and in data_dictionary.csv.
| File | Rows | Size | What it holds |
|---|---|---|---|
data.csv |
497 | 44 KB | The data |
analysis.py |
30 KB | The analysis script |
Columns
data.csv: The data (8 columns)
The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from.
table, period, area, group, value, unit, moe90, records. 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 Voting by Method, 1996–2024 (Election Day, Early, Mail), with Early-Voting Check-Ins by Day and Borough, 2020–2026, and Ballots by Kind, 2022–2025 (version 1.0). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-voting-by-method-and-early-voting-check-insSources (6)
- U.S. Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics — Current Population Survey, November Voting and Registration Supplements, November 1996 to November 2024, every even year
- U.S. Census Bureau — Table 4b, Reported Voting and Registration, for States (November 2018 and 2024), and Table 14, Method of Voting (November 2024), The November 2018 and November 2024 tables
- National Bureau of Economic Research — CPS November supplement files and the 1996 data dictionary, Retrieved 18 October 2026
- NYC Board of Elections — Early Voting Check-Ins, The 2026 general election to date; the 2020-2025 general elections from the Internet Archive's copies of the page, retrieved 24 October 2026
- Board of Elections in the City of New York — Annual Reports 2019, 2020 and 2022-2025, Calendar years 2019 to 2025; retrieved 18 and 24 October 2026
- NYC Board of Elections — All Important Dates (General Election, 3 November 2026), Read 18 October 2026
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