UPDATE 8-Algeria's Bouteflika on course for election win

* Interior Minister says final turnout was 74.11 percent

* Opposition boycott calls have limited impact

* Two policemen reported hurt in polling station blast

* Many voters stay at home in troubled province

(Updates with final turnout figures, colour)

By Christian Lowe and Hamid Ould Ahmed

ALGIERS, April 9 (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was on course for an emphatic election win after official turnout figures on Thursday indicated a limited response to opposition calls for a boycott.

But bomb blasts at a polling station east of the capital wounded two policemen and underscored the challenges Bouteflika faces in trying to stamp out a lingering Islamist insurgency in his country across the Mediterranean from the European Union.

Victory for Bouteflika, a 72-year-old veteran of Algeria's war for independence from France, was never in doubt but many analysts predicted a low turnout would harm the president's legitimacy in the eyes of some of Algeria's 34 million people.