In Limestone County, complete but unofficial totals show Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mike Huckabee were the choice of Limestone County voters in Tuesday’s presidential contest, but only Huckabee could keep the lead statewide.

Democratic Barack Obama edged out the New York senator in statewide voting returns to win Alabama’s Democratic presidential primary. Huckabee won the Republican race.

In Limestone County, Clinton netted 4,720, or 57 percent, of the more than 8,237 votes cast in the Democratic primary compared to Obama’s 3,210 votes (39 percent).

Huckabee received 3,980, or 38 percent, of the more than 10,547 votes cast in the Limestone County Republican primary compared to John McCain’s 3,030 votes (29 percent) and Mitt Romney’s 2,891 votes (27 percent).

Other Democratic vote getters included, John Edwards with 179 votes (2 percent), Bill Richardson with 24, Joe Biden with 21, Christopher Dodd with 5 and 78 uncommitted.

Other Republicans receiving votes included Ron Paul with 503 votes (4.7 percent), Fred Thompson with 53, Rudy Giuliani with 25, Alan Keyes with 24, Duncan Hunter with 6, Hugh Cort with 5, Tom Tancredo with 2, and 28 uncommitted.

In Alabama’s first-ever Super Tuesday primary, 18,881 people – 47 percent of the county’s 41,097 registered voters – cast ballots.

“We had 47 percent of the county voters to go to the polls,” said Limestone County Probate Judge Mike Davis who was tabulating the vote totals Tuesday night in his office. “It was a little better turnout than we expected.”

Davis said the Blackburn box was late coming, delaying the final vote tally to 10 p.m.

“They were told not to rush until they got it all completed,” Davis said. “It was not a problem. It just took a little time getting it in here to us. I think if I had to give a grade on it, I would say we got a B-plus. This was our first presidential preference primary in February and everything went pretty smooth. We had no major problems. ”

Davis said the provisional ballots were the only votes not counted Tuesday night. They will be counted Feb. 12.