New York’s Republican and Conservative Parties saw the highest voter turnout of party members in this month’s state election, according to data compiled by the Times Union. In contrast, unenrolled voters and those affiliated with the state’s Working Families Party had the lowest turnout rates.
“Although Democrats hold a clear enrollment advantage with more than twice the number of registered Republicans in the state, the Republican Party successfully mobilized a larger share of its base, closely followed by the Conservative Party,” the Times Union noted in its analysis this week. “In contrast, voters with no party affiliation, the second-largest enrollment group, had one of the lowest turnout rates relative to their enrollment size.”
Based on party-specific data, 74% of the Republican Party of New York’s 2,826,281 registered voters participated in the 2024 election, closely followed by 73% of the Conservative Party of New York State’s 159,028 voters. The New York State Democratic Party saw a 65% turnout among its 5,952,581 registered voters, while the Working Families Party of New York had the lowest turnout rate of the four recognized parties, with 56% of its 55,388 registered voters casting ballots.
Meanwhile, 62% of the 383,939 registered voters affiliated with parties other than what was listed voted, while 56% of the state’s 3,064,575 unenrolled voters participated in the election. It is unclear which parties are included in the “other” category, as the Times Union did not specify. However, the term appears to be consistent with a similar classification used by the New York State Board of Elections in its pre-election summary of registered voters by county.
Additionally, the Times Union analyzed similar voting data across New York’s 62 counties. It found that Republicans were the most engaged electorate in a majority of the state’s counties. Democrats led turnout in Ulster, Kings, Columbia, and New York counties. In Cortland, Warren, Saratoga, Yates, and Tompkins counties, Democratic and Republican turnout rates were tied. Unenrolled voters were not the majority in any county.
Notably, the analysis also looked at demographic breakdowns by age, gender, and across legislative districts. However, this information, as well as the data on county turnout, only takes into consideration Republican, Democratic, and unenrolled voters.
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To everyone @IPR happy-holidays.
New York went full Lieutenant Frank Drebin: “I want to be known as the environmental police Lieutenant. I want a world where Frank Junior and all the Frank Juniors can sit under a shade tree, breathe the air, swim in the ocean, and go into a 7-Eleven without an interpreter. I want a world where I can eat a sea-otter without getting sick! I want a world where the Democrats will put somebody up there worth voting for!”
Perhaps if any of the “ultra-left” – to use “Liberation” “News”‘s bankrupt vocabulary – parties had put up a candidate or even a platform that wasn’t so woefully out of touch with actual working families, more New Yorkers would have gone to the polls… You have to wonder whether more or fewer would have voted (and for which candidate), if the Democrats hadn’t swapped out Biden for Harris without a vote.