A record number of Texans have registered to vote in this year's midterm elections.

There were so many last-minute voter registration applications, county voter registrars took until more than a week after the Oct. 9 deadline to process them all. The total of 15,793,257 registered Texans is a 4 percent increase over the 15.2 million who were registered for this year’s March primaries.

Slightly more than 51,000 Dallas County residents have registered since March to nudge the county's total over 1.3 million.

However, Texas typically has a low voter turnout. In March's primaries, only about 10 percent of Republicans and 7 percent of Democrats who registered to vote actually voted, according to data from the Texas secretary of state.

Voter turnout was about 59 percent in the 2016 presidential election and 33 percent in the 2014 November election.