Politics & Government

Record-Breaking Voter Turnout In DuPage County: County Clerk

The DuPage County Clerk's Office said the voter turnout shattered the record for the 2016 election.

DUPAGE COUNTY, IL — As of 6:15 p.m. on Election Day, a record number of DuPage County voters had cast their ballots. Of the county's 652,895 registered voters, 468,316 had voted.

These numbers include 190,688 early voters, 163,251 verified mail-in voters and 114,333 Election Day voters.

The total numbers shattered the 2016 record of 434,050 voters.

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As of Saturday, more than half of DuPage County voters had cast their ballots, according to the DuPage County Clerk's Office. The numbers included 171,539 early voting site voters and 156,271 mail-in voters, Kaczmarek said in a news release.

Kaczmarek added that as of Saturday there were still 39,000 outstanding mail-in ballots.

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