POULSBO — Prosecuting Attorney Russ Hauge regained the lead Nov. 6 in his bid for a sixth term.

An updated count of ballots gave him 35,935 to Public Defender Tina Robinson’s 35,467 — a difference of 468 votes, or 50.3 percent to 49.6 percent.

The next ballot update will be posted by the Kitsap County Auditor Elections Division by 5 p.m. on Nov. 7. The office now had an estimated 9,500 ballots remaining to be counted.

Elections supervisor Dolores Gilmore said vote leads of at least 5 percent tend to trend and hold in late ballot counts. The prosecuting attorney’s race, and the races for county commissioner and assessor, remain too close to call.

Gilmore said counts are often slowed by ballots on which the voter used a pencil instead of pen, marked their choice with a circle rather than by filling in the bubble, or wrote in the name of what Gilmore calls “a frivolous write-in candidate” — the elections office still gets votes for Elvis and Mickey Mouse, she said.

On Nov. 6, Bremerton lawyer Edward E. Wolfe held on to his slight lead for District 3 county commissioner — 35,821 too incumbent Linda Streissguth’s 35,555, a difference of 266 votes, or 50.1 to 49.7 percent.

Real estate mortgage banker Phil Cook was holding onto his lead in the race for county assessor — 36,677 to county data analyst Paul Andrews’ 34,164, a difference of 2,513 or 51.7 to 48.2 percent.