More women voted in the Nov. 8 general election in Colorado than men, and Republicans outnumbered Democrats and unaffiliated voters, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office.

In its last daily ballot return update until the results are finalized on Dec. 8, the office explained that although ballots were due to county clerks’ offices by 7 p.m. Election Day, tallying has continued. Military and overseas voters had until eight days after the election to return their ballots. Likewise, voters who failed to sign their ballot or their signature didn’t match those on record in county clerk and recorders offices also had eight days to rectify, or “cure,” their ballot. Those deadlines ended at midnight, Wednesday, Nov. 16.

A tally by the secretary’s office shows nearly 1.5 million women cast ballots in Colorado, compared to 1.3 million men. That further broke down to almost 559,000 Democratic women and 372,000 Democratic men, while 472,000 Republican women voted, as did 483,000 Republican men. Unaffiliated women cast 445,000 ballots, while nearly 464,000 unaffiliated men voted.

Republicans cast the most ballots, 962,029, followed by Democrats at 942,729 and unaffiliated at 925,779. All told, just under 2.9 million Colorado voters participated in the election.

Denver Elections Division final numbers were also released, which showed Initiative 300, the public consumption of marijuana measure, won by a 54-46 percent margin, 167,858 to 145,820. The measure will allow a four-year pilot program for Denver businesses willing to allow customers to consume marijuana, provided they get backing from a neighborhood association or business improvement district.

The elections division also released an explanation of why it took this long to count all of Denver’s ballots. The main reason was nearly a third of all ballots were turned in Monday, Nov. 7, and Election Day. More than 100,000 ballots were returned on Election Day alone, said Elections Director Amber McReynolds in the explanation. Along with 200,000 other ballots returned by mail or dropped off before, each had to go through several steps.

McReynolds said the sheer number of ballots turned in at the last minute added to the time it takes to complete each step in the process, leading to the delay involved in counting all 339,281 returned ballots.

The last day for clerks to count provisional ballots is Nov. 22. Clerks are required by Nov. 25 to turn in their official results to the secretary of state, which then spends several days compiling that data before Dec. 8.