In the past fifty years of Seattle elections, the 2025 Dream Team are now the top four vote-getters of any general election campaign.

The number of people who voted for that slate is greater than the total population of Skagit County.

As for percentage of the vote, AMR 2025 is 10th in ALL contested Seattle races in the same time period.

The Rinck, Evans, and Foster campaigns are now officially ranked 2nd, 9th, and 13th, respectively, in total votes received in general elections in Seattle going back to 1973. AMR now holds the top two spots. And counting is far from done.

INNING 18! GIVE UT UP FOR INNING 18!

NPI's Cascadia Advocate with a major oopsie in their post about Federal Way Link.

Connie Boesen is mayor of Des Moines...Iowa.

Our Des Moines is led by Traci Buxton.

@nwprogressive.org

HEARTBREAKING: The worst person you know just made a great point.

Here's the updated Top 35 from today's drop.

1. Donaldson '91
2. Rinck '25
3. Bagshaw '15
4. Revelle '77
5. Clark '11
...
17. Foster '25
18. Evans '25
...
28. K. Wilson '25
29. Conlin '13
30. Lin '25
...
34. Harrell '25
...
48. S. Nelson '25
...
54. Davison '25

And, out of the entire dataset, 26 candidates received over 50% of the vote, three of whom did so last night. And the numbers aren't yet final, and historically will only get better.

Eddie Lin (31st overall) with the 4th best performance in District 2 history (behind Harrell '15, Morales '23, and Morales '19).

Katie Wilson with the best performance of a non-incumbent mayoral candidate since Liem Tuai in 1973, and in primaries only behind Nickels '05, Rice '93, and Royer '85. (29th overall).

Erika Evans with the best primary performance for a City Attorney candidate (before this, it was Tom Carr in 2001), the best-performing woman to run for City Attorney, and the only one to receive over 50% in a primary. (22nd overall).

Dionne Foster (17th overall) with the 3rd best all-time performance in Position 9 post-district primaries, behind only Lorena Gonzalez (in both 2015 and 2017). Counting races before 2015, she's 5th overall.

In running the numbers after last night's electrifying results:
(Data: Mayoral primaries from 1973 on, most council primaries from 2005 on, plus outliers)

@alexis4seattle.bsky.social is the best-performing woman of colour in the data set, with the 4th highest vote percentage of a 400+ dataset.

apparently Rian deleted his post so here's the meme

it's going to be a long 12 months...