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Raleigh now estimates 180,000 people flooded downtown for the Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup victory parade on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday afternoon, following a parade and rally, Raleigh Police announced an estimated crowd of 150,000 people. That\u2019s a record for an event in Raleigh, according to the city.<\/p>\n

Comparatively, when the Canes won their last Stanley Cup in 2006, the downtown parade attracted 8,000 people. A larger parade at the Lenovo Center, then called the RBC Center, attracted 30,000 people, The News & Observer previously reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

The police department did not respond to questions from The News & Observer asking how they estimated the crowd\u2019s size.<\/p>\n

The Downtown Raleigh Alliance is still making its own estimate of the crowd\u2019s size, using phone signals and other measures to get a grasp on people inside buildings in downtown Raleigh as well as along the parade route, said Ileana Rodriguez, the organization\u2019s spokesperson, in an interview Monday.<\/p>\n

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When the Florida Panthers won the cup in 2025, an estimated 400,000 fans attended their victory parade in Fort Lauderdale, Florida<\/a>, more than double the size of Raleigh\u2019s parade, according to CBS.<\/p>\n

Fort Lauderdale has a population of 180,000, according to the U.S. Census \u2014 less than the number of people who attended the parade. But the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metropolitan area has more than 6 million people.<\/p>\n

For comparison, Raleigh\u2019s population is estimated at about 506,000, with a metropolitan area of 1.4 million people.<\/p>\n

That means Raleigh\u2019s parade, which stretched from Hillsborough Street down Fayetteville Street, exiting on Davie Street, drew an equivalent of more than a third of the city\u2019s population and more than 12% of the metro\u2019s population. However, not everyone who attended the parade was from Raleigh or the Triangle.<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published June 22, 2026 at 5:09 PM.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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