Rapid response · Erie County, New York · November 3, 2026
Election Night
Every district in Erie County, as the votes are counted.
Every contest on the ballot in all 652 election districts, read from the County's own count as it posts, beside who lives in each district and how it voted before.
Results · unofficial
Every contest, district by district
Pick a contest, then what the map shows. Point at a district, or tap it, for its numbers.
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By area
Towns, wards, and districts
The contest on the map, added up by town or city, Common Council district, or legislative district. Select one to map it.
Turnout
Who's voting
Turnout in each district beside who lives there, and beside an earlier election. These are patterns among places, not how any person or group voted.
Tonight
Before
Down the ballot
Party lines and split tickets
New York's fusion voting lets a candidate run on more than one party line, and every vote is counted by the line it was cast on. That shows how many voters chose a Democrat on the Working Families line, and how the rest of the ticket ran beside the race at the top.
The Working Families line
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Running ahead of the top of the ticket
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Each row compares a Democrat and a Republican with the top race's, in the districts where both races were on the ballot and have votes. A Democrat who gains votes while the Republican beside them loses about as many is consistent with voters splitting their tickets; more votes in a race than in the top race means some voters skipped the top. Third-party candidates in either race blur these readings, and they describe districts, not voters: the same totals can come from different mixes of people.
City of Buffalo · eleven ballot questions
Buffalo's charter questions
Buffalo voters decide eleven amendments to the City Charter on November 3. Here is what each would do, how each fares across the City, and who gets a say.
In December 2020, High Road Policy's memo Chartering an Inclusive, Sustainable, Democratic City read Buffalo's charter, last overhauled by a commission in 1999, against the community rights movement. It found little room in the charter for communities to control the decisions that affect them, and found that it leaves racial, social, and economic justice to advisory boards whose members the Mayor and the Common Council mostly appoint. It proposed a rights-based charter, written through a charter commission whose members communities would choose and could recall.
Three of this year's questions, prompted by the 2024 vacancy in the mayor's office, settle who steps in when an office falls vacant and what powers they hold. Most of the rest reach toward the memo's concerns: regular charter review, open doors to City boards, a civilian police advisory commission, a stronger human rights commission, and a study of ranked choice voting. Read against the memo, most add voice by advice rather than by power: the new bodies would recommend, not decide, and the abstracts don't say who would choose most of their members.
Results fill in here as Buffalo's districts report.
Who answers a question is itself a measure of voice. Voters skip questions at the bottom of the ballot more often than races at the top, and the table under the questions shows where in the city that happens most.
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No. 1 · Filling a vacancy
Acting public officials
A yes vote makes clear that anyone acting as Mayor, Comptroller, Council Member, Council President, or Council President pro tempore has all the powers of the office.
Against the 2020 memo: Housekeeping after the 2024 vacancy in the mayor's office.
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No. 2 · Charter review
A Charter Revision Commission every ten years
A yes vote requires the Common Council to set up a commission to review the charter at least once every ten years. The charter has been reviewed by such a commission only twice since 1999.
Against the 2020 memo: The 2020 memo favored a charter commission as the route to a rights-based charter: unlike an advisory board, its work goes straight to voters. It urged that communities, not elected officials, choose and recall its members. This makes review regular. The abstract says the Council sets up each commission; it doesn't say how members are chosen.
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No. 3 · Filling a vacancy
Filling the Council President's seat during an acting mayoralty
A yes vote lets the Common Council temporarily fill the district seat of a Council President who becomes Acting Mayor.
Against the 2020 memo: Representation: after Mayor Brown resigned in 2024, the South District had no Council Member for over a year.
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No. 4 · City boards
Holdover terms and inactive boards
A yes vote limits board members to sixty days past the end of their terms, and suspends boards that have stopped meeting until the Common Council reviews them.
Against the 2020 memo: The memo found the charter leaves racial, social, and economic justice to advisory boards whose members the Mayor and Council mostly appoint. This keeps those boards current; who appoints them doesn't change.
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No. 5 · Filling a vacancy
Mayoral succession
A yes vote makes clear that the Common Council President becomes Acting Mayor when the office of Mayor is vacant, and that the President's district seat is temporarily vacant and can be filled by the Council.
Against the 2020 memo: Housekeeping after the 2024 vacancy.
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No. 6 · City boards
A public website for city boards, and training for members
A yes vote requires a city website about city boards, with an application to fill vacancies, and orientation and training for new members.
Against the 2020 memo: The memo called the boards inaccessible to most people. A public application is an open door, though the Mayor and Council still make the appointments.
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No. 7 · City boards
Temporary task forces
A yes vote lets the Mayor and the Common Council appoint task forces of up to two years to advise them on the city's administration, safety, or welfare.
Against the 2020 memo: Another advisory body, appointed by elected officials.
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No. 8 · The budget
Budget adoption
A yes vote has the Mayor send the proposed budget to the Comptroller first. If the Comptroller recommends changing its revenue or spending estimates, the Council can lower them by a two-thirds vote, or raise a spending estimate by a majority.
Against the 2020 memo: A check among elected offices, not a new role for residents.
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No. 9 · Voice and rights
An Election Reforms Task Force
A yes vote creates a task force to study election changes discussed by the 2025 Charter Revision Commission, including ranked choice voting and open primaries, and to recommend proposals for the November 2028 ballot.
Against the 2020 memo: The community rights movement the memo drew on counts free and fair elections among democratic rights. This studies them; the task force would recommend changes for voters to weigh in November 2028.
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No. 10 · Voice and rights
A Civilian Police Advisory Commission
A yes vote creates a commission of city residents, starting February 1, 2027, to advise city departments on policing policy, with the aim of more transparency and reporting and better relations between residents and police.
Against the 2020 memo: The template the memo cited lists a police force managed by and accountable to residents. This commission advises.
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No. 11 · Voice and rights
A Commission on Human Rights
A yes vote replaces the Commission on Citizens' Rights and Community Relations with a Commission on Human Rights, which can recommend laws and other steps to the Mayor, the Council, city departments, and the community.
Against the 2020 memo: The commission it replaces holds the charter's one mention of social justice, the memo found. The abstract promises it expanded powers, and the one it names is the power to recommend.
The question summaries follow the City of Buffalo's ballot abstracts. The notes marked “Against the 2020 memo” are this page's reading of each.
Recent trends
Four general elections on today's districts
How Erie County voted in the last four Novembers, with each year's votes moved onto today's 652 districts.
| Year | Ballots | Per 100 | Early | Election Day | By mail |
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| 2025 | 187,217 | 25.5 | 20% | 75% | 5% |
| 2024 | 450,219 | 61.4 | 34% | 59% | 7% |
| 2023 | 202,764 | 27.6 | 18% | 78% | 4% |
| 2022 | 343,299 | 46.8 | 20% | 74% | 6% |
| Most residents are | Districts | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
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| White | 517 | 27.4 | 66.3 | 30.7 | 51.5 |
| Black | 71 | 18.3 | 43.6 | 15.4 | 27.7 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 3 | 8.7 | 25.0 | 5.6 | 13.0 |
| Asian | 2 | 10.6 | 27.6 | 7.4 | 18.0 |
| No group a majority | 59 | 15.4 | 34.1 | 12.0 | 22.9 |
Ballots here are counted district by district from each district's most-voted single-seat race, which catches about 99 percent of them. 2022 and 2023 used the county's older map of about 850 districts; their votes were moved onto today's districts block by block, in proportion to adults.
How this works
Where the numbers come from
On Election Night the Erie County Board of Elections posts its count to a public results feed as each upload comes in: early votes first, then Election Day districts as they report, then absentee ballots, which keep arriving for days. This page checks that feed every 30 seconds while it is open and redraws when anything changes. It calls no races.
- Results are the county's unofficial count, contest by contest and district by district, split by early voting, Election Day, and absentee. The county certifies its results within 25 days, and the page keeps reading the feed until then.
- Turnout is ballots over the 662,636 voters on the rolls, active and inactive, in the state Board of Elections' count by district of February 20, 2026. The feed counts ballots only for each contest's whole area, so a district's ballots are the votes in its most-voted single-seat race.
- Who lives here comes from the 2020 census, block by block, placed in the district that holds each block, and from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024, split among blocks by people or households. Citizens of voting age are the Census Bureau's special count for voting rights work.
- Recent trends means the general elections of 2022 to 2025 from the same feed, moved onto today's districts. The shift compares the Democrat's margin over the Republican, as a share of their two votes, with the same race or the one chosen.
- Party lines come from the feed, which counts each candidate's votes by the line they were cast on. The Working Families share is the votes on that line as a share of all of the candidate's votes. Past races are moved onto today's districts the same way as their ballots.
- The top of the ticket is the countywide race with a Democrat and a Republican that drew the most votes, unless you pick another. A race beside it is compared only in the districts where both were on the ballot.
- Comparisons with turnout by group or by place describe districts, not voters. A district with many renters and low turnout does not show that its renters stayed home.
Until every district is in, tonight's numbers are partial, and the districts that report first are not a sample of the county. The district files were last built October 24, 2026.
- Official
- Erie County Board of Elections
- Voters
- New York State Board of Elections, enrollment by election district, February 20, 2026
- Data
- Every district tonight as CSV from the By Area table
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- Russell Weaver (formerly @RustBeltGeo) has been mapping Buffalo and Erie County elections since 2011