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# Early Voting by the Numbers: 467,707 Ballots Cast Through October 31
- URL: https://www.brookfieldcurrent.com/early-voting-by-the-numbers-october-31/
- Published: 2026-11-02T13:16:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-02T13:16:59.000Z
- Description: The Secretary of the State's October 31 release counts 417,230 early votes and 50,477 returned absentee ballots statewide, with one more early-voting day still to be added.
- Author: The Brookfield Current
- Tags: News

Connecticut voters had cast 467,707 ballots through all methods as of October 31, according to the Secretary of the State's release of that date. Of those, 417,230 were cast in person during early voting, and 50,477 were absentee ballots returned out of 71,620 issued.

October 31 alone brought 28,850 early voters to the polls, one of the busiest single days of the early-voting period. By party registration, early voters through October 31 numbered 199,880 Democrats, 81,642 Republicans, 130,130 unaffiliated voters, and 5,578 voters registered with other parties. Absentee ballots returned by October 31 broke down as 25,977 Democrats, 9,187 Republicans, 14,631 unaffiliated voters, and 682 others. Another 5,534 early voters registered on the same day they voted.

Two cautions travel with these numbers, and both matter for reading them straight. First, the figures are preliminary: towns report on different schedules, and the Secretary of the State revises the totals as reports come in, so the latest release's cumulative column is the number to use. Second, party registration describes who voted, not how anyone voted. Ballots are secret, and a registration breakdown says nothing about which candidates those voters chose.

The release lists only the ten towns with the most early votes, led by West Hartford with 9,340, followed by Norwalk with 8,796, Fairfield with 8,185, Milford with 8,066, and Stamford with 8,008\. There is no Brookfield-specific figure in the release, and none should be inferred from the statewide total.

One more point on timing: this release is dated October 31, and early voting ran for one more day, through Sunday, November 1\. The final early-voting total, once the Secretary of the State publishes it, will be higher than 467,707\. As of Monday morning, no later release had been published. The voters who waited until Election Day itself, Tuesday, November 3, are not in these numbers at all. The full picture of turnout in this midterm will only come into focus once Tuesday's votes are counted.