Ohio -- While midterm elections typically have very low voter turnout, this cycle proved different, revealing a very motivated voting public in Ohio.

Ahead of Election Day, experts continued to say it was all going to come down to voter turnout and Ohioans did not disappoint.

Even just early voting numbers proved this election was going to be busy one.

From early voting through to Election Day, there were reports across the state of people finding themselves in long lines.

When it comes to presidential elections, about 60-percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. 

That number typically drops to about 40-percent for midterm elections. 

On Tuesday, the vast majority of Ohio counties reported a voter turnout above 50-percent.

Delaware County gets the participation prize with nearly 66-percent of registered voters casting their ballots.   

Even on the low end, there were just a handful of counties reporting around 47-percent, which is still above average.

Secretary of State Jon Husted said more than 1.3 million absentee votes have been cast as of Tuesday.  That is up more than 27-percent from the 2014 midterm election.

Turnout wasn’t the only interesting element in this election.

We took an in-depth look at the so-called swing counties in our state.

There were 17 counties that voted for Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown in 2012, but then turned red for President Donald Trump in 2016.

This year, the vast majority of those counties stayed pretty red, voting for almost every Republican candidate.

That was especially true in the gubernatorial race with Mike DeWine winning all but three of those swing counties.

The U.S. Senate race, however, was a different story.

Brown found a way to appeal to the conservative vote, swaying nine of those counties to cast their ballots to keep him in the Senate for his third term.