section_path: Background/Early voting
section_name: Early voting
paragraph_text: Early voting
  
  Voters were also able to vote early, which happened on 11 May, one week before election day. Voters had to register between 4 and 8 May to be eligible to cast an early ballot. By the 8 May deadline, 333,347 voters had requested to vote early, a number well above the 2024 figures and the highest since the option of early voting was extended to all voters. On 11 May, 314,859 voters (94.5% of voters that requested) cast an early ballot, also adding 3,993 early ballots from voters who were hospitalized, imprisoned or outside their usual residence.