With an intensely contentious presidential race, voters across the tri-town had a variety of feelings after casting their ballots.

“I’m just relieved it’s over,” Mike Deverix of Rochester said on Tuesday afternoon.

Relief was a common feeling among voters, many of whom expressed surprise at the way the campaigns played out.

“It was chaos,” Rochester voter Maria O’Martin said. “I can’t wait for this night to be over.”

And while Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were the candidates nominated by the two major parties, for some, neither candidate was an ideal choice.

“I voted for Jill Stein,” Rochester voter Benjamin Fairclough said. “If she gets five percent of votes, the Green Party gets $10 million of the federal budget for the next election.”

Fairclough wasn’t the only voter in Rochester to vote third party. Jamie Morse filled in the bubble for Gary Johnson.

“I didn’t want to vote for either [Trump or Clinton],” she said. “It’s been more stressful than in the past. It’s still stressful.”

Marion voter Sonia Rocha shared a similar sentiment, declining to say who she voted for but that she was unhappy with her choices.

“Either way, we aren’t getting what we deserve,” she said.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, it was an easy choice for some voters.

“I voted for Hillary,” Marion voter Jonathan Howland said. “Donald Trump is nuts. He’s a madman. He’s a sick puppy.”

Both parties were well represented in the tri-town with residents doing some last minute campaigning outside of polling precincts.

“It seems like Hillary was on an uptick, so we’re hopeful if not confident…,” said Bill Cantor of the Mattapoisett Democratic Town Committee.

Gary Bowman, also of Mattapoisett, held up a Trump-Pence sign on a nearby sidewalk and said he was doing his part to support his candidate.

“I think it’s going to be really close,” he said of the presidential election. “Either way it’s going to be a surprise.

Of his decision to vote for Trump Bowman said, “A lot of people I know feel the same way I do. I think they need an outsider, someone who isn’t a politician.”

Tuesday was also a momentous election for first time voters.

Chad Lavoie of Mattapoisett just made the cut for this year’s election, turning 18 on Oct. 28. After voting, he said, “It was exciting.”

Lavoie, a senior at Tabor Academy, said he always follows elections, but he paid more attention this time and he knew of other first time voters who did the same.

Some were still too young to vote, but they were able to witness the democratic process.

Jack and Courtney Higgins brought their four kids to the polls with them, “so they can see what it’s like,” said Jack.

He said the election was a source of conversation in their household, especially since the older kids participated in a mock election at Center School.

The kids and their parents got “I voted” stickers.

When asked what he thought of the voting process, the Higgins’ oldest son, also named Jack, had a simple response. “Cool,” he said.

Hopefully after the results are finalized, voters will still share that sentiment.

See the results from the tri-town here.