Early Tuesday, it looked like Oklahomans were flocking to the polls, but when voting was over the opposite was true.

Even with candidate visits and high visibility on Super Tuesday, the overall number of Oklahoma voters was down by a significant amount. 

The Tulsa County Election board shows the unofficial Republican numbers like this:

RON PAUL                            27,508     9.64%   

RICK PERRY                      1,289       0.45%   

RICK SANTORUM              96,536     33.82% 

MITT ROMNEY                  79,916      28.00% 

MICHELE BACHMANN        949        0.33%   

NEWT GINGRICH                78,463     27.49% 

JON HUNTSMAN                746         0.26%

That’s a total of 285,407 votes.

In the 2008 primary Sooners cast 335,004 votes on the Republican side alone with more than 417,000 ballots being cast on the Democratic side of the ticket.

Overall, Republican votes were down just about 50,000.

Here is a look at the Democratic numbers from Super Tuesday in Oklahoma.

BARACK OBAMA                              64,257      57.07% 

JIM ROGERS                                    15,536      13.80% 

BOB ELY                                            5,320        4.72%   

DARCY G. RICHARDSON                  7,193       6.39%   

RANDALL TERRY                               20,291     18.02%

If you add up the numbers of all voters in the presidential primary, it comes out like this: 

2008 Presidential Primary election total votes cast on the Republican and Democratic ticket, 752, 211.

2012 Presidential Primary election total votes cast on the Republican and Democratic ticket, 398,004.

Skewing the numbers overall is the fact that Democrats didn't have a lot of reason to vote.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were locked in a battle in 2008 that produced over 350,000 votes alone.

With Obama as the incumbent, the numbers on the democratic side were down significantly as well.

Keep in mind these are unofficial results.

The election board says it will be Friday before the final numbers are in and stamped as complete and official.