Warren County’s counting of absentee and affidavit ballots cast for Tuesday’s election is expected to wrap up today on the heels of figures showing turnout statewide was down from four years ago.

Ballots from 10 of the county’s 22 precincts were processed by late Wednesday afternoon, and members of the Warren County Election Commission’s Resolution Board, which include deputies in the Circuit Clerk’s Office, were back at the counting this morning.

Warren County voters cast 19,507 ballots in person Tuesday for a turnout of about 60.5 percent of the total voter roll. Officials estimate 1,737 absentees were requested before Election Day, but the number of those that will be counted in the vote is being determined one-by-one by the Resolution Board. In 2008, a record 21,573 ballots were cast countywide.

The voting isn’t quite over in Warren County District 5, where incumbent election commissioner Lonnie Wooley faces Gordon Cordes in a runoff on Nov. 27.

Mississippi voters turned out in smaller numbers on Tuesday than in 2008, when 1.29 million voted. Tuesday’s turnout, the second-highest, fell 7 percent to 1.2 million. That gap could narrow as affidavit votes are counted and totals are certified. County election commissions have until Dec. 16 to send the general election returns to the Secretary of State’s Office.

President Barack Obama won 43.7 percent of the vote in Mississippi on Tuesday, but garnered 30,000 fewer votes than in 2008. Going back to 1984, Obama’s share of the vote in Mississippi is second only to Bill Clinton’s 44.1 percent in 1996.

Republican nominee Mitt Romney won 664,000 votes, according to The Associated Press. The total is down from the 725,000 won by the GOP’s John McCain four years ago.

Poll votes in Warren County had Obama 509 votes ahead of Romney out of the 19,458 votes cast for president.

No Democratic candidate has taken the county majority since President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. Republicans have won all other contests since, with two exceptions — Alabama Gov. George Wallace won the county as an independent in 1968, and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond of South Carolina took the county in 1948.