The Nov. 5 election filled many open municipal posts such as mayors and township supervisors, but county elections officials still are busy sorting out write-in winners and ties.

Shari Brewer, director of the county’s board of elections, said there still are nearly 50 open positions across the county that must be filled by write-in candidates.

Many of those posts are for non-voting positions such as auditor, constable or tax collector, and most of those have only one write-in candidate who will assume office.

But there are some undecided races such as in West Sunbury where three write-in candidates got the same number of votes for mayor.

A winner of that race will be picked Friday at the county bureau of elections office in Butler where officials will use a lot system to choose a winner.

Other races that require a tie-breaker include constable for Seven Fields, tax collector for Valencia and auditor for West Liberty.

Brewer said the election results just became official on Tuesday, which means that elections officials only recently sent out letters to notify each write-in winner.

Those winners have until Dec. 6 to respond to the letters, and any position not filled by then will be filled by each individual municipality.

Brewer said the number of write-in candidates this year isn’t any different from in past years.

Looking at write-in winners:

n In Butler, Gretchen Ehlman won the city controller’s office.

n In Cherry Valley, Ron Lockwood won a four-year term as mayor. In addition, Derrick Henderson, Brian Hillard and Clay Kohlmeyer won four-year terms on the borough’s council.

• In Chicora, Lisa Nagy won a four-year term as mayor while Joe Roudebush won a two-year term on council.

• In Petrolia, Robert Jordan won a four-year term as mayor and Cinda Six won a four-year term to council.

• In Portersville, Shirley Ray won a four-year term as mayor. Additionally, Terry Good, John Saunders and Dane Thomas won four-year seats to council, and Brian Bailey won a two-year seat to council.

• In Valencia, Krystal Schultz won a four-year term as mayor while Shannon McKenna won a four-year seat on council.

• In Venango Township, John Thompson won a six-year term as a township supervisor.