The mayor of the 43rd District: Who we picked plus a possible new Cap Hill candidate we didn't

Here is how the votes broke out for mayor in the 43rd District in Seattle's primary election on Election Night (full results won't be available until September). Note the top vote getters. If it was only a matter of voting in Capitol Hill, the University District and Wallingford, Greg Nickels would be joining Mike McGinn in the primary.

Instead, the second candidate will be Joe Mallahan, who, the numbers show, did especially well north of the 43rd.

And the third candidate? He's not in the pie at all.

Capitol Hill's state senator Ed Murray is reportedly mulling a run as a write-in candidate in November. Why? Publicola seems to think it's a labor-backed idea. The Times concurs and says Murray says there is a '25% chance' he will run.

Murray is a gay man and lives with his partner in the area. His entering the race could be most disruptive for McGinn who did well here in the early primary voting and seems to have made Capitol Hill part of his base of operations.