1. Yesterday, after a bit of wrangling, I published the behind-the-scenes tally of which council members supported which applicants to serve out Sally Clark's vacant seat. (To make it to the final round, applicants needed at least three votes of confidence; Clark resigned this month to take a job as community relations director at the UW.)

Some observations:

•John Okamoto, the recent interim Seattle human services director under mayor Ed Murray, is the clear frontrunner—he got seven votes out of eight council members; only Kshama Sawant didn't support Okamoto.

•The biggest surprise: Noel Frame, who has no obvious experience on affordable housing (supposedly the main prerequisite for the gig), but is the outgoing head of Progressive Majority Washington (a group that recruits and supports lefty people of color, female, and younger candidates), got the second most votes—netting support from six council members. Again: no support from Sawant, though.

•Sawant, in fact, only supported three candidates—Low Income Housing Institute director Sharon Lee, Asian American leader Sharon Maeda, and Urban League staffer Sheley Secrest. The only Sawant favorite who appears to be in the mix at this point is Maeda, who got four votes altogether, including nods from Bruce Harrell, Nick Licata, and Mike O'Brien—along with Sawant. Sawant's regular allies, Nick Licata and Mike O'Brien, were not with her on LIHI's Lee—and only O'Brien was with her on Secrest. They were both with her on Maeda.

•Sally Bagshaw and Licata were also relatively stingy with their support, by the way. Bagshaw only supported  Frame, Okamoto, and former ferries leader David Mosely. And Licata only supported Frame, Okamoto, and Maeda.

•Harrell was the most generous with his support, a-okaying six candidates; his beneficence is statistically driven by the fact that he signed off on all the candidates of color, perhaps a show of identity politics. He was the only council member to do that. (He also voted for former city council member and colleague Jan Drago.)

Speaking of identity politics: No council member went all in on all the female candidates. Godden, the loudest feminist on the council, limited her support (when it came to women) to white women—Drago and Frame—withholding support from Lee, Maeda, and Secrest. (She also voted for David Moseley and John Okamoto.)

2. In addition to the eight applicants to fill Sally Clark's vacant council seat who made it to the final round, seven other hopefuls out of the original 43 managed to get at least one or two votes (again, you needed three votes to make it to the final round according to a process set up by council president Tim Burgess). Distinguishing themselves from the remaining 36 candidates who didn't get any votes whatsoever, let's call these seven the honorable mentions.

Linda Alexander, an Eastlake resident who was on Mike O'Brien's task force to help come up with regulations to rein in pod apartments, got one vote from Tom Rasmussen. Rasmussen, who's not seeking reelection, has been pushing legislation to create "conservation districts" to protect neighborhoods in the face of new development.

David Bloom, the former lefty church leader (who's worked with Seattle Displacement Coalition populist Jon Fox on affordable housing issues—and stood out as a favorite of lefty finalists like Sharon Lee and Sharon Maeda when we looked at the applicants' record of political contributions earlier this week), got one from another Fox ally, veteran council progressive Nick Licata.

Christina Bollo, an architecture PhD candidate with a history of designing affordable housing projects—she gets my vote—and the former chair of Seattle's pedestrian advisory board, got one real vote from ped-friendly former Sierra Club activist Mike O'Brien.

Rory O'Sullivan, a tenants rights attorney and former legislative assistant to U.S. representative Jim McDermott, got one vote from Licata. O'Sullivan ran an unsuccessful campaign for the open state senate in Southeast Seattle's 37th legislative district last year.

Ed Pottharst, a Department of Neighborhoods staffer (who would have been the first deaf city council member), got two votes—one from Jean Godden and one from Rasmussen.

Sarajane Siegfriedt, a Democratic party activist, got one vote from Licata.

Heidi Wills, a former one-term city council member from 2000 to 2003 who, as one of the youngest council members, was ridiculed relentlessly by The Seattle Times for pushing animal rights legislation, got two votes—one from Godden and one from O'Brien, neither of whom were on the council with Wills.

Also noteworthy: Space Needle scion Howard Wright, a supposed estabalishment frontrunner, got zero votes.

3. Speaking of tallies: I missed Tuesday night's meeting of the 43rd district Democrats—a meet and greet with council candidates that came with an informal straw poll.

Some noteworthy results: Sawant, whose council position, district three, overlaps with the 43rd's key Capitol Hill voting bloc, won handily, getting 145 votes. Her main challenger, Urban League head Pamela Banks got 70 votes. Also worth mentioning—incumbent Godden, running for reelection in the fourth district, came in last, getting just 44 votes. Democratic activist Michael Maddux won with 102 votes. Transportation Choices Coalition director Rob Johnson came in distant second with 69 votes, and neighborhood activist Tony Provine came in third with 57 votes. There's also plenty of overlap between Godden's new fourth council district and the 43rd legislative district—the U District,  Eastlake, Ravenna, Roosevelt, and Wallingford.