DMV early voting numbers | Seniors dominate mail, in-person ballots in Virginia

VIRGINIA, USA — With less than one week from Election Day, 57 million Americans have already cast their ballots for president either by in-person early voting or by mail. Here are how numbers stack up in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. 

Note these numbers do not indicate which candidates voters selected, election officials are only allowed to begin counting ballots on Election Day, Tues., Nov. 5.

1,692,388 Virginians voted as of Tuesday. 1,314,720 early votes were cast in person and 377,668 were cast by mail. 

Election officials in Virginia provide a more detailed breakdown of the makeup of the early voters, breaking down numbers by age and gender. 

According to the election officials, seniors make up the majority of the commonwealth's early in-person and early mail ballots. 52.3% of the in-person early votes were from those 65 and older. 

Voters 40 and under only made up 17.2% of the vote in Virginia. With 18 to 25-year-olds only representing 5.7% of the in-person early vote. 

The numbers were similar among mail ballots, where voters 65 and older made up 50.3% already casting their votes by mail. Here, voters under 40, made up 26% of accepted mail ballots and 18 to 25, was 10.6% of those votes. 

Women were more represented than men in Virginia's early voting numbers. 54.8% of in-person early voters in Virginia were women and 54.8% of the ballots accepted by mail were 57.4% women. 

In-person early voting started on Sept. 20 in Virginia; the last day to vote early is Sat., Nov. 2. 

1,211,723 Marylanders, voted as of Tues., Oct. 29. With 695,664 in-person early votes and 516,059 mail ballots returned. 

Early voting began in Maryland on Thurs., Oct. 24. 

Registered Democrats dominated these in-person early voting numbers with 51.9% casting in-person early ballot as of Tuesday, compared to 32% from registered Republicans and 16.1% from people with no party or third party registration.

Registered Democrats also outnumbered registered Republicans among mail ballots accepted as of Tuesday. 66.1% of the accepted mail ballots were from Democrats, 18.1% were from Republicans and 15.8% were from Marylanders with no party registration or third party registration. 

Thurs., Oct. 31 is the last day of early voting for Marylanders.

In Washington, D.C. 92,893 people voted in the 2024 presidential election as of Mon., Oct. 28. The District does not break down numbers by party affiliation or by age or gender. 

In-person early voting started in D.C. on Mon. Oct. 28 and ends on Sun. Nov. 3; polling places are open from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The University of Florida has compiled statistics from the 48 states and D.C. that have early voting. In case you were curious, the two U.S. states that do not offer early voting are Alabama and New Hampshire, where the only options are voting in-person on election day or qualifying to vote absentee.