Early Voting by the Numbers: October 26

Connecticut's early-voting totals kept climbing on Monday, October 26, according to the latest daily release from the Secretary of the State. Statewide, 270,114 votes have now been cast through all methods — early voting plus returned absentee ballots — during the early-voting period.

Early voting itself accounts for 231,577 of those ballots. Monday alone brought 31,717 early voters to the polls across the state, one of the stronger single days of the period so far. Absentee ballots returned now stand at 38,537, out of 66,876 issued.

By party registration, Democrats account for 120,301 early votes to date, Republicans 41,291, unaffiliated voters 67,033, and voters registered with other parties 2,952. Same-day-registration early voters now total 2,058. Party registration describes who voted, not how anyone voted — ballots are secret, and these figures say nothing about which candidates are ahead.

The release lists only the ten towns with the most early votes, led by West Hartford at 5,191, followed by Norwalk, Milford, Fairfield, and Stratford. Brookfield does not appear in that top-ten list, so there is no Brookfield-specific figure in this release.

The figures are preliminary. Towns report on different schedules and the Secretary of the State revises totals as verification continues, so the cumulative column in the latest release is the figure to watch rather than any sum of daily numbers.

In Brookfield, early voting continues at Town Hall, Meeting Room 133, 100 Pocono Road. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, with extended hours Thursday, October 29, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., then 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Sunday, November 1, is the last day of early voting, also 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.