Early voters chose Deputy Mayor Sharon Owens, a Democrat, with 76% of the vote over three opponents, according to unofficial results posted Tuesday after the polls closed.

Republican Tom Babilon won about 17% of early votes. Independents Alfonso Davis and Tim Rudd each won about 3.3%.

The early vote includes 3,658 early in-person and absentee ballots.

In Syracuse, 3,592 people voted early. About 66% of the early voters in Syracuse were Democrats compared to 17% independent and 15% Republicans.

The early vote total also includes absentee ballots received so far at the elections board. About 1,114 absentee ballots have been requested, but not yet received.

Onondaga County broke the record for early voting in a local election this year with 17,218 votes in person at polling sites ope

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