Welcome back to the #weeklywonk. This is my weekly column reporting on electoral and registration data for Onondaga County and New York State. This column was on a bit of a break in late 2024 and 2025 with only occasional postings but is now back with vengeance. We are in the middle of my fourContinue reading “The Weekly Wonk: Onondaga County Suburbs 2026”
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The Weekly Wonk: Who Won and Where in 2025
Welcome back to the #weeklywonk. This is my weekly statistical column on electoral and registration data in Onondaga County and New York. This column is back after a semi-hiatus since late 2024 and I intended to bring this back weekly on Wednesdays going into 2026. This week’s column is launching a little late due toContinue reading “The Weekly Wonk: Who Won and Where in 2025”
The Weekly Wonk: 2025 General Election Turnout
Welcome back to the #WeeklyWonk. This is my weekly look at election related stats and demographic information that is important to Syracuse, Onondaga County, and New York State. I took a brief hiatus from this blog in 2025 but now that 2025 election is officially certified, along with manual recounts and write-ins, we can nowContinue reading “The Weekly Wonk: 2025 General Election Turnout”
What Voter History tells us about Voting Method in 2025 General Election
One last mini blog on the November election. Today we will look at how people voted in 2025, and by that, I mean which method they chose to vote. This breaks down into three main categories: Early, Mail, Election Day. Total Voters: 93,421 Early Voters: 17,326 (18.55%) Mail Voters: 4,909 (5.25%) Election Day: 71,186 (76.20%)Continue reading “What Voter History tells us about Voting Method in 2025 General Election”
2025 General Election Turnout
Turnout History Comparisons We are in the middle of certification of the 2025 General Election, but we have finished our voter history. I thought I would do a mini blog with some surprising findings. Here are some surprising and not so surprising stats based on our turnout statistics. For this blog, I am going toContinue reading “2025 General Election Turnout”
The story of Turnout in the 2025 Election
Another story in this election is about turnout. I will do more about this after certification, but going into the last scan we have some numbers on voter stats, specially voter turnout. Best estimate of voter turnout 93,628 voters out of 313,859: 29.83% However that is not the whole story. Right now this is typicalContinue reading “The story of Turnout in the 2025 Election”
The Time to Get Involved is Now
While the CNY and National GOP want to only blame Trump for their losses (while they run to embrace Stefanik for Governor) they overlook the hard work of the candidates that put themselves in position to win. Many of these candidates in Onondaga County were first time candidates who were motivated by the state ofContinue reading “The Time to Get Involved is Now”
Changes Coming to Onondaga County
Let’s talk more about what Blue Onondaga means. As a result of Tuesday’s elections Democrats now control a significant portion of Onondaga County governmental units. here is where we stand: Onondaga County Legislature Democrats now control 10-7. This is in addition to holding county wide offices County Clerk, County Sheriff, and County Comptroller. City ofContinue reading “Changes Coming to Onondaga County”
Liverpool Mayor Residency Controversy
Over the past two months the Onondaga County Board of Elections has been grappling with the residency of Thomas Valerino the Republican and Conservative candidate for the office of Mayor for the Village of Liverpool. There was a voter registration challenge to his registration at 300 Tulip St. and a challenge to his nomination byContinue reading “Liverpool Mayor Residency Controversy”
Brief thoughts on primary turnout for Syracuse Democrats. Its actually good.
There has been a good deal of discourse around voter turnout in the City of Syracuse mayoral primary. So lets look at the facts as they stand according to data from the Onondaga County Board of Elections: Number of Democrats eligible 39051 Number of Democrats who have voted 7792 Estimated turnout 19.95% This will growContinue reading “Brief thoughts on primary turnout for Syracuse Democrats. Its actually good.”
Dustin M. Czarny 