Early voting in the mayoral election began on Saturday, and the figures so far show it has smashed numbers from the last race and even the June Democratic primary when high voter turnout elevated Zohran Mamdani to victory.

According to preliminary numbers released by the city board of elections on Tuesday night, 297,718 New Yorkers have already cast their ballot, a staggering figure for the first four days of the early voting. Brooklyn is currently leading the other four boroughs with 92,035, followed by Manhattan with 89,474 votes cast, then Queens with 68,873. Staten Island has the lowest number of early voters at 22,417; the Bronx is just above that at 24,919. By comparison, the June primary logged 131,882 early voters by the end of the fourth day. And this year’s general-elect

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