ALEXANDRIA, Va. — With three hours of voting left Tuesday, Alexandria had already passed the total number of ballots cast in the city in the 2022 midterm election, according to figures from the city's Office of Voter Registration and Elections.

By 4 p.m., 24,197 people had voted at their polling places. Added to the 34,417 who had voted early or returned a mail ballot as of Sunday, that's 58,614 ballots, or 57.2% of the city's 102,451 active voters.

In 2022, 53,465 ballots were cast in Alexandria, according to official results from the Virginia Department of Elections. That total included mail ballots that arrived after Election Day.