Nearly 72 percent of Hawai'i voters chose Barack Obama for president, according to the second printout of election results released tonight.

His Republican challenger, U.S. Sen. John McCain, had already conceded the race for the White House by the time Hawai'i's first election results were released.

In the second printout, McCain received just 27 percent of the Hawai'i vote.

Those results were based on all of the early, walk-in votes and many of the mailed-in ballots — nearly 120,000 votes in all.

McCain received 23 percent of the votes in that first release of the Hawai'i results.

Initial results were delayed until all of the state's 339 polling stations reported that they were closed, elections office spokesman Rex Quidilla said.

"This is a great day for Hawai'i, a great day for the country," said U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka. "The world really needs the spirit of aloha."

U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawai'i, said now that he is elected, Obama must begin the work of reaching out to Republicans to focus on a host of issues facing the country. "We have a lot to do," she said.