NC Early Voting Update - November 7

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Early voting in NC began on October 20 and ended on November 5.

I thought it might be interesting to compare the Early Voting numbers with 2018, the last midterm election. A day-to-day comparison wouldn't tell us much, since the days are different due to how Election Day changes, and there are usually fewer votes on weekends. So I thought a total-vote comparison and an average-votes-per-day comparison would be better:

In 2018, after Early Voting, 1,972,296 votes had been cast.

In 2022, after Early Voting, 2,008,671 votes have been cast. Therefore, this year we have had 36,375 more votes cast during the Early Voting Period.

In 2018, the average number of votes per day during Early Voting was 109,572.

In 2022, the average number of voters per day during Early Voting is 118,157, a difference of 8,585 votes per day.

Things look good for Early Voting. The totals this year may change a little, as the count gets updated.

The biggest change is in mail-in ballots that have been received. In 2018 (in the Before Times), at this point there had been 69,781 ballots received by mail. This year, the total so far is 143,701. That's a difference of 73,920. As more votes come in, that total will change as well.

Overall, there have been 110,295 more votes cast this year so far than in 2018. Also, in 2018 there were 18 days of Early Voting, whereas this year there were only 17. With one fewer day, we had that many more votes.

This year, about 90,000 more Dems than Republicans used Early Voting, and about 38,000 more Dems than Repubs have used Vote By Mail.

NC has more Unaffiliated voters than it has Dems or Republicans. Dems have outpaced Unaffiliated voters by 156,000 in Early Voting and by about 13,000 in mail-in votes.

Source: https://carolinaelections.com/votetracker/