Just under 3 million people took part in early voting for the 2024 general elections in New York state, according to state Board of Elections numbers released Monday.

A total of 2,985,181 state residents voted early between Oct. 26 and Nov. 3. The highest turnout day was the first day on Saturday, Oct. 26, with 379,426 votes cast, followed closely by the last day on Sunday, with 374,843 votes cast.

New York City residents cast 1.1 million votes early this year, which was fewer than those who live outside of New York City, who cast 1.9 million early votes.

In upstate's more populous counties, 151,106 people voted early in Erie County, 133,128 voted early in Monroe County, 67,526 voted early in Albany County and 77,936 voted early in Onondaga County.

Unlike some other states, New York does not release the party affiliation data with its early voting numbers, but the state did release new voter enrollment numbers as of Nov. 1 showing that there are 13.6 million total voters in the state — 12.4 million of them active. There are 5.9 million registered active Democrats, 2.8 million registered active Republicans and 3 million nonaffiliated with any party.

About half a million more New Yorkers voted early in 2024 than they did in the last presidential election in 2020. That year there were also 1.7 million absentee ballots cast.

Early voting first came into practice in New York in 2019.