The voter turnout on Election Day was a measly 24 percent, the lowest in more than half a century.

With paper ballots still to be counted, the Board of Elections reported 1,026,169 ballots cast in a city with 4.3 million registered voters.

That compares with a turnout of 93 percent in 1953.

Before Tuesday, the lowest turnout since 1950 had been in 2009, when 1.137 million ballots were cast in Mayor Bloomberg’s widely expected victory over Bill Thompson.