DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Brooklyn was a juggernaut on election day, with 478,909 recorded votes by 3 p.m., according to the Board of Elections. Manhattan had logged roughly 95,000 fewer votes than Brooklyn at that time, and Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island even less.

The total vote count by 3 p.m. was a hefty 1,451,942, including early voting check-ins, BOE said. More than 102,000 mail-in ballots would also be counted.

Poll worker Maria Cardenas; Dr. Sandra Chase, District Leader of Assembly District 52; and Inspector Mary Lark said voter turnout was solid at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle

The hard-fought contest between the Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa seemed to electrify voters.

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