What if you held an election and less than 200,000 registered voters showed up? Based on preliminary ballot counts by the New York City Board of Elections, that’s what happened in Tuesday’s primary election

Because of state redistricting in 2022, NYC Council elections were held two years earlier than usual with no hotly contested citywide, state or federal races on the ballot to draw voters to the polls, political analysts said.

Of all five boroughs, Bronx voters, in particular, couldn’t be bothered.

Only about 5.3% of registered Democrats cast ballots in the primary race for Bronx District attorney between incumbent Darcel Clark and challenger Tess Cohen. Clark won handily.

There are 535,955 active registered Democratic voters in Bronx County, but only 28,472 voted, according to the unofficial machine count.

In the primary for Council District 14 in The Bronx, only 2,985 voters out of 57,848 actively registered Democrats cast ballots — just 5% — according to the voter profile compiled for the district by Jerry Skurnik and his firm Engage Voters U.S.

That was the lowest number of the 17 competitive Council primary races.

Incumbent Councilwoman Pierina Sanchez, who faced a challenge from Rachel Miller-Bradshaw, won re-election in a landslide of the few.

The turnout in Queens — the only other borough with a countywide race for district attorney — was only slightly less abysmal.

Victorious Democrat incumbent DA Melinda Katz faced off against rivals George Grasso and Devian Daniels. About 8% of Dems cast votes — 59,937 out of 756,091 active Dem voters.

Only a few of most competitive Council primary races broke a 10% turnout.

In Harlem’s District 9 had what appears to have the highest draw, where exonerated Central Park 5 member Yusef Salaam bested two sitting Assembly members — Inez Dickens and Al Taylor.

In central Harlem, 11,049 of 81,511 active Democrats cast ballots — or 13.5% voted.

In the hotly contested race for the new majority Asian District 43 Council District in southern Brooklyn, 3,437 out of 31,835 Democrats voted — about 12%.

Susan Zhuang prevailed in that contest over Wai Lee Chan and Stanley Ng.

Still, even those rates were dwarfed by the voter turnout rate in the fiercely contested 2021 Democratic primary for mayor, won by Eric Adams.

In that contest, 801,829 Democrats voted or more than 25% of the 3.1 million active registered Democrats in the Big Apple.

Former Brooklyn Councilman and mayoral candidate Sal Albanese said holding primary elections in June suppresses turnout and favors incumbents.

“I noticed that I garnered more votes while running for school board decades ago. School Board elections were rightly criticized for dismal voter participation and one of reasons for their elimination,” he said.