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CNN released its Election Day statistics for CNN.com via Omniture and for CNN Mobile via Bango.

CNN.com tallied nearly 80 million page views Tuesday, its highest-trafficked day since July 7, 2009, the day of the memorial service for Michael Jackson. Traffic was up 61 percent compared with the prior-four-week average and 10 percent over the day of the rescue of the Chilean miners.

Unique visitors to CNN.com were up 26 percent versus the prior-four-week average and 10 percent versus numbers for the 2006 midterm Election Day, totaling more than 11.2 million. Nearly 250,000 live videos were viewed, up fourfold from the prior-four-week average.

CNN Politics nearly doubled its prior-four-week average, with more than 25 million page views, and blog CNN Political Ticker saw a 62 percent gain, collecting more than 2 million views.

CNN Mobile welcomed more than 2.2 million unique visitors Tuesday, up 30 percent compared with the prior-four-week average, and mobile page views were up 42 percent to 7.3 million.

CNN.com updated its usage statistics for its coverage of the rescue of the formerly trapped miners from the northern Atacama desert in Chile, citing data from Omniture SiteCatalyst for its Web site and Bango for CNN Mobile.

From 3 p.m. ET Tuesday-midnight Wednesday, CNN.com delivered 5.5 million live video streams and tallied109.4 million page views, and breaking news blog This Just In drew 5.9 million page views.

On Wednesday alone, the Web site delivered 4.6 million live video streams, its largest total to date in 2010 and a whopping 8,000 percent above its daily average over the past four weeks. CNN.com totaled 82.5 million page views globally, topping its daily four-week average by 52 percent and marking its highest single day since the site relaunched in October 2009. And This Just In totaled 4.6 million page views, setting a traffic mark and topping its daily four-week average by 540 percent.

As for CNN Mobile Wednesday, it drew more than 2.2 million visitors, up 32 percent versus its daily four-week average, and video streams were up 278 percent compared with the same average.

The ongoing rescue of the trapped miners from the northern Atacama desert in Chile is also resulting in a feel-good story at CNN.com, as data from Omniture SiteCatalyst and Bango showed strong results.

CNN.com said it served more than 3 million live video streams related to the miners’ rescue, boosting it to a 2,700 percent increase over its daily average from the prior four weeks. Traffic Wednesday through 3 p.m. ET was nearly double that of a typical day, at 4 million page views. And breaking news blog This Just In totaled 1.3 million page views Tuesday, up 123 percent compared with its daily average for the prior four weeks, and 2.6 million through 3 p.m. Wednesday, up 345 percent.

Switching gears to mobile, CNN app downloads in the United States were up 250 percent versus the daily average Tuesday, and on-demand video starts on CNN’s mobile site were up more than 50 percent compared with the same-day average for the past four weeks.