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The 2024 General Election is less than one week away, but yet over 35 percent of North Carolina’s registered voters have already cast a ballot.

As of Monday (Oct. 28), 2,820,665 votes have been cast statewide. This represents 36.11 percent of the state’s 7,810,764 registered voters.

In-person early voting so far this year continues to exceed previous elections. As of Monday, 2,665,806 ballots have been cast via the early voting method. That is higher than the 2020 (2,404,763) and 2016 (1,546,765) General Elections at the same stage of the voting process.

Meanwhile, an additional 154,859 absentee by mail ballots have been received, bringing the overall total of 2,820,665 votes tabulated thus far.

Of the total votes cast statewide through Oct. 27, 961,871 were by those registered as Republicans, 938,167 by Democrats, and 904,669 by Unaffiliated voters. The remainder were by Libertarian, Green, No Labels, Constitution, We The People, and Justice For All political party voters.

Locally, the number of citizens casting a ballot by the early voting method has nearly doubled since Oct. 21. A combined 15,021 early votes have been recorded at designated locations in Bertie (4,461), Gates (2,250), Hertford (4,328), and Northampton (3,982) counties. As of last week at this time, a combined 7,881 early votes had been cast in the four local counties.

Adding in the absentee by mail ballots counted through Oct. 27, a total of 15,312 votes have been cast locally.

In-person early voting continues through Saturday, November 2 at sites statewide.

Locally those sites are at:

Bertie County Board of Elections Office (210 W. Watson Street, Windsor)

Lewiston Fire Department (103 W. Church Street, Lewiston-Woodville)

Powellsville Town Hall (106 E. Main Street, Powellsville)

Gates County Board of Elections Office (25 Medical Center Road, Gates)

Hertford County Board of Elections Office (418 Everett Street, Ahoskie)

Murfree Center (201 E. Broad Street, Murfreesboro)

Northampton County Cultural and Wellness Center (9536 NC Hwy 305, Jackson)

Bishop W.I. Welch Community Center (101 Cherry Street, Gaston)

Creecy Gymnasium (210 Roberts Road, Rich Square)

All of those sites are open weekdays from 8 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.

The sites in all four local counties will also be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 2.

Photo identification is required to vote.