Despite all of the chaos, damage and power outages created by Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast, voter turnout for the 2012 election was impressive.

As of 10 p.m. Pacific, more than 104 million Americans had voted for the top three presidential candidates.

In 2008, a record 131.3 million votes were cast, which was up from 122.3 million in 2004.

A look at the popular vote as of 10:20 p.m., according to Google’s General Election stats:

Candidate
Popular Vote
Electoral
Barack
Obama
49.4%
52,000,354
303
Mitt
Romney
49.1%
51,655,370
203
Gary
Johnson
0.9%
998,650
0

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