Connecticut's Early Vote, by the Numbers

The Secretary of the State's latest turnout release — covering votes cast through Wednesday, Oct. 21 — shows Connecticut voters turning out early at a pace that keeps climbing. Total ballots cast through all methods now stand at 140,830, with 112,977 of those coming from in-person early voting and 27,853 absentee ballots returned.

The party-registration breakdown of the early vote: 62,555 registered Democrats, 30,217 unaffiliated voters, 18,766 Republicans, and 1,439 registered with other parties. Another 60,198 absentee ballots have been issued and not yet returned — a pool of voters that could still grow both columns. And 695 people registered to vote on the spot before casting an early ballot.

A few important caveats come with these numbers. They are preliminary: towns report on their own schedules and the state revises the figures, so the totals above come straight from the latest release's cumulative column rather than anyone's arithmetic. Party registration describes who voted, not how they voted — the ballots themselves are secret. And the release names only the top ten towns, so there is no Brookfield-specific figure in it: West Hartford leads the early vote statewide with 2,406, followed by Milford at 2,185 and Stratford at 2,138.

For Brookfield voters still planning to vote early: the early-voting window at Town Hall runs through Nov. 1, with extended 8 a.m.–8 p.m. hours on Tuesday, Oct. 27 and Thursday, Oct. 29. The last day to apply for an absentee ballot is Nov. 2, and Election Day itself is Nov. 3.