Turn local data into community action.
Explore historical turnout, election results, polling places, and estimated registration opportunity across Buffalo, Erie County, and Niagara County.
A project of Citizen Collab
2026 General Election
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Recommended precincts: Darker precincts are recommended starting points because more registered residents did not vote and/or turnout was below the local average.
Recommended precincts have more registered voters who did not vote and/or lower turnout than nearby precincts.
City of Buffalo
Recommended precincts
View the visible election districts as an accessible table
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Methodology
Local election data, responsibly explained.
Why precincts are recommended
Recommended precincts have more registered voters who did not vote and/or lower turnout than nearby precincts. These voters are already registered, so community partners can focus on helping them get to the polls.
Recommendations are made within each Council district or municipality; Fillmore is split into East and West.
Historical turnout and election results, 2016–present
Historical candidate totals come from OpenElections’ standardized versions of official Erie and Niagara County election returns. For each November general election, the map joins those results to the New York State Board of Elections’ November 1 election-district active-voter enrollment snapshot for the same year. Certified turnout is shown only when actual precinct ballots cast are available. Otherwise, votes in the highest available single-winner contest—typically president or governor—are divided by election-year active registration and clearly labeled as a lower-bound participation estimate; voters who left that contest blank are not included. The 2025 layer uses verified ballots cast. Primary or special-election rates are withheld without an appropriately dated, party-eligible registration denominator, and PDF-only historic rolls are not automatically treated as verified data.
The archive discovers verified general, primary, and special election precinct files; elections available only as county PDFs or separate reports are clearly marked as archive-only. Votes for candidates appearing on multiple ballot lines are combined in general elections, while primary contests are separated by party. Results are joined to present-day map outlines by normalized election-district labels; because boundaries, district identifiers, and reporting units may have changed—particularly after the 2020 Census—unmatched areas stay gray and the map does not estimate missing precinct results.
Registration opportunity estimate
The map allocates the Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 ACS citizen voting-age population estimates from block groups to election districts using 2020 Census blocks, then subtracts 2025 total registration. Because the source years and boundaries differ and ACS values carry margins of error, the result is a broad planning estimate—not an exact count of eligible or unregistered voters.
Demographic planning profile
Population, age, race, ethnicity, education, housing, internet, nativity, language, disability, and poverty counts come from the 2020 Census and 2020–2024 ACS. Block-group and tract counts are allocated to election districts using Census block population or housing-unit weights. Precinct percentages are therefore modeled estimates and are shown beside an aggregated Council-district or municipality comparison. These characteristics help community partners design accessible outreach but do not determine which precincts are recommended.
Polling-place assignments
Erie County polling places come from the Board of Elections’ primary and general election poll-site workbook dated August 11, 2026; sites flagged as awaiting Attorney General preclearance are labeled. Niagara County locations come from its published November 2026 election-district assignments. Polling places can change, and the New York State voter lookup remains the authoritative final check.