Thousands of Iowans took advantage of the first day for in-person early voting yesterday. The latest totals for absentee ballots requested and returned, statewide and in Iowa’s four Congressional districts, are after the jump. I took the numbers from the Iowa Secretary of State’s website. To spot trends in the numbers, you can find tables from earlier this week here.

Both parties have been pushing early voting, and both have generated more absentee ballot requests than at the same point in Iowa’s last midterm elections. For now, Democrats are running ahead in the early vote statewide and in each Congressional district, but the numbers are far from decisive.

Absentee ballots requested by Iowa voters as of September 25, 2014

Congressional district	Democrats	Republicans	no-party voters	Libertarian	Iowa Green	total
IA-01	20,016	9,167	8,543	38	30	37,794
IA-02	23,170	9,273	9,341	29	36	41,849
IA-03	20,344	10,186	6,568	34	23	37,155
IA-04	13,258	10,353	5,450	18	13	29,092
statewide	76,788	38,979	29,902	119	102	145,890

Absentee ballots received by Iowa county auditors as of September 25, 2014

Congressional district	Democrats	Republicans	no-party voters	Libertarian	Iowa Green	total
IA-01	1,725	1,027	451	3	0	3,206
IA-02	1,212	535	219	2	2	1,970
IA-03	982	873	242	4	1	2,102
IA-04	634	709	180	1	0	1,524
statewide	4,553	3,144	1,092	10	3	8,802