More than one million Georgians had already cast ballots by the early hours of Tuesday, October 20, ahead of the state’s November 3 election, with voters aged 65 and over accounting for the largest share of those who took part.
GeorgiaVotes.com recorded 1,027,037 ballots by 6.22am, including 980,408 votes cast in person during early voting and 46,629 mail ballots. The figure was about 3% higher than the 998,971 ballots recorded at the same stage of the 2022 general election.
Figures from the Georgia Secretary of State’s turnout dashboard were broadly similar, showing 1,027,099 ballots by 5.31am. Officials said the slight discrepancy reflected different update times, and warned that the totals remained unofficial while counties continued uploading voter records.
Older voters lead Georgia early voting
Voters aged 65 and over represented 46.8% of those recorded as having voted, according to the GeorgiaVotes.com breakdown. Those aged between 50 and 64 made up a further 28.8%.
Women accounted for 55% of voters and men for 44.8%, while 0.2% were listed with no recorded gender. The voter file showed 52.1% of ballots had been cast by White voters, 34.8% by Black voters, 2.8% by Hispanic voters and 2.4% by Asian voters.
The figures describe the characteristics of people who have voted, rather than their political preferences. Georgia does not register voters by party, and the turnout data do not reveal which candidates they supported.
Early voting for the general election began on October 13 and is scheduled to continue until October 30. The election itself will take place on November 3.
Voters are choosing candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state and the US Senate, among other offices. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has previously said the number of major statewide contests is helping to drive interest.
Election officials have urged voters to use the state’s official information services for polling locations and voting arrangements, while GeorgiaVotes.com has cautioned that early turnout patterns should not be treated as a reliable prediction of the final result.
