Former President Donald J. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to take Warren County Tuesday on a rainy election day that saw a strong voter turnout despite the inclement weather.

A total of 14,572 voters, or 50% of Warren County’s 29,025 active registered voters, turned out to vote in person across its 23 precincts Tuesday. Warren County Circuit Clerk Jan Hyland Daigre said the large turnout was likely due to the highly contested presidential election, calling the total “very good.”

Warren County Election Commission Chairman and District 4 Commissioner Sara Dionne said voters turned out across the county in large numbers from the opening to the closing of polls.

“It’s been very busy all day,” Dionne said. “As for how this compares to four years ago, I’m not certain, but we’ve been busy.”

Incomplete and unofficial returns show Trump won Warren County with 7,726 votes, or 53%, to 6,846 votes, or 47%, for Harris.

Statewide, with about 98 percent of the vote counted just before midnight Tuesday, Trump won Mississippi and its six electoral votes by about 250,000 votes — 61.1% to 37.7%. The last Democrat to carry Mississippi was Jimmy Carter in 1976. The only other Republican to win more than 60% of the vote during that stretch was Ronald Reagan in 1984.

In the race for U.S. Senator, incumbent Republican Roger Wicker took Warren County with 7,761 votes, or 54%, defeating Democratic challenger and Rolling Fork native attorney Ty Pinkins, who received 6,585 votes, or 46%.

In the race for the U.S. House of Representatives 2nd Congressional District, Warren County went to Republican challenger Ron Eller, who defeated incumbent Democrat Rep. Bennie G. Thompson. Eller finished with 7,756 votes countywide, or 53%, while Thompson garnered 6,956 votes, or 47%.

Both Wicker and Thompson were confirmed to have won re-election in the statewide vote.

In the race for Mississippi’s Supreme Court seat in the central district, Jenifer B. Branning took Warren County with a total of 5,661 votes, or 40%; Ceola James finished second with 3,925 votes, or 28%; incumbent Justice Jim Kitchens was third in the county with 3,640 votes, or 26%; challenger Byron Carter finished with 582 votes, or 4%; challenger Abby Gale Robinson received 412 votes, or 3%.

According to Mississippi Today, with 90% of votes processed on a statewide level, none of the five candidates running had an outright majority of the votes cast. Branning, at 41.8% of the vote, and Kitchens, at 35.6% of the vote, remained the leading candidates.

If no candidate receives an outright majority of the vote, or more than 50%, the two candidates who received the most votes will compete in a runoff election on November 26.

Running unopposed were Court of Appeals Judge Latrice Westbrooks, who received 11,628 votes in Warren County; Election Commission District 3 Commissioner Elva A. Smith, who received 1,972 votes; Election Commission District 2 Commissioner Bobbie Bingham Morrow, who received 1,987 votes; Election Commission District 5 Commissioner Debra Breland Grayson, who received 2,594 votes; and Vicksburg Warren School District, District 2 Trustee Alonzo Stevens, who received 2,024 votes.  

Daigre said a total of 3,068 absentee ballots were left to be counted as of press time Tuesday night.