Nearly 120,000 people in Nassau County cast ballots on Election Day

Nearly 120,000 voters have already cast their ballots throughout Nassau County as of around 4 p.m. on Election Day, according to the county Board of Elections. As with early voting, Republican voters outpaced Democrats at the ballot box Tuesday. In addition to nearly 48,000 Republicans and around 43,500 Democrats, 1,650 conservatives and nearly 2,900 independents registered in Nassau voted.

Nassau’s 19th District, where residents are choosing between incumbent Republican Legis. James Kennedy and Democrat challenger Lynn M. Russo drew the most voters thus far, according to the Nassau County Board of Elections. These 8,530 district voters were among the 28,628 Town of Oyster Bay residents who made their voices heard at the ballot box Tuesday. More than 68,000 residents of the Town of Hempstead, along with more than 17,000 Town of North Hempstead voters, nearly 3,400 City of Long Beach residents and nearly 2,400 residents of City of Glen Cove, cast their ballots.