Kitsap County has a new prosecuting attorney.

Republican challenger Tina Robinson outlasted incumbent Democrat Russ Hauge and could finally declare victory over Hauge after the latest vote tally by the Kitsap County Elections Division Monday.

Robinson prevailed with 50.4 percent of the vote to Hauge’s

49.4 percent.

The vote tally Monday was 40,843 for Robinson, a public defender, and 39,972 for Hauge — a lead of 871 votes for the challenger.

Hauge was seeking his sixth term.

Election workers will update the vote count on Nov. 14, but officials estimate there will be only

50 remaining ballots to tally.

The race has been a topsy-turvy affair since polls closed.

Hauge led in the first vote tally on Election Day, but Robinson took the lead last Wednesday by 32 votes.

Hauge reclaimed the lead again Thursday and maintained a dwindling advantage Friday, only to lose it Saturday as Robinson went in front for good.

Hauge said late Nov. 10 that he has talked to Robinson and “I have assured her that we will do everything possible to [ensure] a smooth transition.”

Robinson said she will spend her transition period talking to staff members and court administrators, and looking at her department’s structure. She also wants to look into and resolve any issues in the department’s Civil Division. The Kitsap County Deputy Sheriff’s Guild declined to endorse Hauge earlier in the campaign, saying it had “no confidence” in the Civil Division and in Hauge’s management of civil law matters.

“I believe we have very good attorneys in the office and I do look forward to working with them,” Robinson said.

This week’s updated results confirmed the election of Edward E. Wolfe, a Republican and former assistant U.S. secretary of state, to the District 3 position on the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners.

Wolfe, a Bremerton lawyer, received 41,073 votes to incumbent Democrat Linda Streissguth’s 39,792 — a margin of 1,281 votes.

The count was 50.7 percent for Wolfe, and 49.1 percent for Streissguth.

As assistant U.S. secretary of state in the Reagan administration, Wolfe negotiated the Pacific Salmon Treaty, which embodies the commitment of the United States and Canada to prevent over-fishing and ensure that both countries receive benefits equal to the production of salmon originating in their waters.

Voter turnout in the election was the lowest in years: 55.7 percent.

Turnout was the lower than anything seen in the past eight general elections, going back to 1998, and before Kitsap County switched to vote by mail.

The previous lows were 63 percent in 2002, and 68 percent in 1998 and 2006.

Kitsap switched to vote by mail in 2005, the same year it was approved by the state Legislature.

Two races saw the incumbent bow out to retirement.

County Assessor-elect Phil Cook met on Nov. 10 with the incumbent, Jim Avery, who is retiring.

Cook’s opponent in the General Election, Paul Andrews, a county GIS data analyst, said he and Cook “talked on Friday,” and he stands ready to help.

“I am very well connected in the office, I know a lot about the history, so there’s a conversation we’ll have when he’s ready to start absorbing that information,” Andrews said.

Cook, a Republican, won with 52 percent of the vote. Andrews, a Democrat, finished with 47.5 percent.

Delores Gilmore won election to the county auditor post now held by Walt Washington.

Gilmore, a Democrat and the county’s current election manager, beat Republican Kelly Emerson, a recent transplant to Kitsap and former county commissioner from Island County.

Gilmore won with 52 percent to Emerson’s 47 percent.

In other races, Democrat Dave Peterson won election to county clerk over Gary Chaney, 57.0 percent to 41.9 percent, respectively.

Republican Greg Sandstrom won in a landslide, 67 percent to 32 percent, over no-party candidate Jeff Wallis for county coroner.

The election will be certified as official on Tuesday, Nov. 25.