Latest Early Voting Numbers Show Drop in GOP Vote Compared to 2022

NC early voting tops 2.8M as Democrats match 2018's 12% turnout edge

Democrats cast more than a million, or 38.37%, early ballots; unaffiliated voters held the second-largest bloc with 991,939, or 35.18%; and registered Republicans cast 737,349 ballots, or 26.15%.

Unaffiliated voters drive early turnout gains across Albemarle

Nearly 36% of North Carolina voters—roughly 2.8 million people—cast a ballot before early voting ended Saturday, a state record driven largely by unaffiliated voters and Democrats. That figure includes mail-in ballots.

Election 2026: Early in-person voting ends; Democrats’ registrations up

(The Center Square) – Nearly 9 in 10 voter registrations went to Democrats in North Carolina for the most recent seven-day update by the State Board of Elections, according to analysis by The Center Square.

Early voting up, mail voting down ahead of Election Day

With the early voting totals are some interesting trends. Four years ago, registered Republicans accounted for 56% of ballots cast at this stage of early in-person voting. This year they’re 48%.

'Oh my word': GOP 'fretting' as swing state early voting shows 'quite the shift' to Dems

North Carolina’s early in-person voting closed with Democrats far ahead of where they were two years ago, according to an elections data analyst, and observers on both sides of the aisle took notice.Zachary Donnini, head of data science at the election data outlet VoteHub, posted the final numbers on Sunday morning, two days before Election Day. By the end of early in-person voting in 2024, Republicans had an edge of 41,457, he wrote. This year,…

Gruters: GOP Has Early Voter Turnout Problem