Google has compiled the national totals for various presidential candidates who were on the ballot, but they are very faulty. Google figures for Virgil Goode, for example, show less than 10,000, when the preliminary returns from the 26 states in which he was on the ballot yield a total of 108,195 votes. Google calculates 1,139,562 for Gary Johnson as of several hours ago, but of course all these numbers are constantly increasing as more votes are counted. Probably at least 8% of all votes nationwide still haven’t been counted, perhaps more. Google, several hours ago, showed Jill Stein at 396,684. It seems likely that Roseanne Barr (whose google total is 48,797) polled more votes than Rocky Anderson, whose google total several hours ago was 34,521.

Jill Stein received 1.3% of the Maine vote, making Maine the first state that has certainly cast as much as 1% of its presidential vote for the Green Party nominee since 2000, when Ralph Nader polled over 1% in most states. Stein’s next best states are Alaska and Oregon, where final tallies may also show her just over the 1% mark.

At the 2012 election, independent U.S. Senators were elected from Maine and Vermont. Also in the 2012 election, no New England state elected any Republican to the U.S. Senate. This is the first time in the history of direct elections for U.S. Senate that the Republican Party did not win a single U.S. Senate election in any New England state. No Republican nominee for U.S. Senate was elected in any eastern state this year.

In the entire nation, out of 33 U.S. Senate seats, the Republican Party only won eight U.S. Senate seats. This is the lowest number of U.S. Senate seats either major party has won since 1964, when Republicans only won seven seats.