More than 20,000 households in Maine were without power Tuesday evening as high winds swept the state on Election Day.

Central Maine Power reported just over 20,000 customers without power as of 5 p.m. Over 7,600 of those customers are in York County, with an additional 6,400 in Cumberland County, 2,200 in Oxford County, over 1,700 in Androscoggin County and more than 1,100 in Franklin County.

Over 500 Versant Power customers were without power as of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, but that dropped to about 300 customers as of 4:45 p.m.

Outages fluctuated wildly throughout the day. Early Tuesday afternoon, CMP reported as many as 5,100 outages in Cumberland County, but that had dropped to about 4,800 by 2:30 p.m. Less than an hour later, though, it increased to nearly 8,000.

Meanwhile, more than 25,000 CMP customers who had lost power previously had it restored as of about 3:30 p.m., according to spokesperson Dustin Wlodkowski.

Many fire departments across the state announced they were responding to reports of downed trees and wires Tuesday. The Kennebunk Fire Department was assisting Sanford with a brush fire caused by fallen power lines, the department said in a social media post. The post noted that multiple brush fires have been reported throughout York County.

CMP also has crews staged near polling locations, Wlodkowski said, to ensure swift restoration in the event of an outage while voting is taking place.

If outages occur at polling locations, voting should be able to continue uninterrupted, according to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.

“Maine uses paper ballots, and even in larger locations that use tabulators, any ballots that might not be able to be immediately fed into a tabulator will be held in a secure auxiliary box to be counted,” Bellows said in an written statement Tuesday afternoon. “The Elections Division is working closely with Versant and CMP to monitor outages impacting polling locations.”

Wlodkowski said 7,600 people in the Lisbon Falls area had power knocked out due to a fallen tree, but it was restored in less than five minutes thanks to new technology that detects an outage and reroutes power throughout the CMP system.

Wind gusts of up to 54 mph were recorded in Portland, as well as 51 mph in Sanford, 49 mph in Fryeburg and 48 mph in Rockland, according to the National Weather Service office in Gray.

CMP posted an alert at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, announcing that high winds would likely cause outages and that extra crews have been deployed across the state. It also notes that crews cannot go up in bucket trucks to repair lines when winds exceed 30 mph.