CHICAGO – About two-thirds of eligible voters in the City of Chicago turned out for the 2024 general election, the final results show.
A little over 1 million ballots were cast in the election, according to the official results from the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. The citywide turnout was 67.9% among active registered voters, a decrease from recent election cycles.
Of those votes, about 45% of them were cast on Election Day, Nov. 5, about 32.5% were cast via early in-person voting, and nearly 22.5% were cast via mail-in ballots.
The turnout rate was below what the city saw in the three most recent presidential election cycles.
During the 2020 election, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the state allowed for easier mail-in voting, about 73.2% of voters turned out. About 40% voted by mail.
In the 2016 election, a little over 71% of eligible voters cast a ballot.
For the 2012 election, about 75.4% of voters turned out.
The city’s election board said it will release a further breakdown of vote totals by age and gender “in the near future.”
