Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are pouring out to the polls Tuesday to vote in a series of local elections — including the most consequential mayoral race in decades.

Just shy of 460,000 residents cast ballots in the first six hours of polling sites being open starting at 6 a.m., according to tabulations released by the Board of Elections. That’s on top of the more than 735,000 people who voted early before Tuesday.

Taken together, that means the city had as of noon Tuesday already exceeded the 1.15 million turnout level set in the 2021 local elections. Polls remain open through 9 p.m.

Longtime New York election observers have said the early voting numbers alone indicated the 2025 elections could bring in more than 2 million votes overall . The most recent turnout high water

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