Nearly 24 percent of Montgomery County’s registered voters, about 157,000, cast ballots during early voting, according to state and county figures.
Broken down by party, nearly 109,000 of more than 384,000 registered Democrats, or about 28 percent, voted early, according to state figures.
In comparison, more than 21,500 of the county’s 122,000 registered Republicans, or nearly 18 percent, voted early. Among unaffiliated voters, 25,625 of about 142,000, or 18 percent, voted early Early voting ran from Oct. 27 to Nov. 3 at 10 locations in the county.
The state’s breakdown of ballots by early voting site showed more people voted at the Silver Spring Civic Building than anywhere else:
— Silver Spring Civic Building, 20,853
— Germantown Community Recreation Center, 18,968
— Potomac Community Recreation Center, 18,659
— Activity Center at Bohrer Park, Gaithersburg, 18,535
— Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center, Burtonsville, 16,237
— Jane E. Lawton Community Recreation Center, Chevy Chase, 15,938
— Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad, 15,879
— Executive Office Building, 13,805
— Mid-County Community Recreation Center, Silver Spring, 10,988
— Damascus Community Recreation Center, 7,534
Marjorie Roher, the spokeswoman for the county Board of Elections, said 61,000 people have voted with an absentee ballot.
Montgomery has 656,674 registered voters, state board statistics say.
For people who are voting on Election Day on Tuesday, Roher suggested they not vote first thing in the morning if possible because of the likely long lines.
“Those voters who can vote from 10 and 4 have easiest time,” she said.
Lines haven’t been long in the evenings of recent elections, Roher said. And a voter who is in line at 8 p.m. will get to vote, she said.
