After a last frantic push of hand-shaking at supermarkets, sign-holding in Cambridge’s squares and weekend “coffees” with supporters, the 19 City Council candidates will learn their fates tomorrow.

Voters across the city will select nine councillors out of a pool of seven incumbents and 12 challengers.

The winners will determine the course of the city’s policies over the next two years, from dealing with urban planning in one of the country’s most densely populated cities, to refining working relationships with Harvard and MIT.

The incumbents have had a variety of accomplishments and goals over the past term, but they have one thing in common: they all want two more years on the council.

Henrietta Davis

Henrietta Davis is the only incumbent sponsored by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), Cambridge’s traditionally activist progressive party, and is basically considered a shoo-in for reelection. With reelection a near-certainty, Davis could even be a leading contender for mayor.

She prides herself for her work on quality-of-life issues—for example, she often mentions her work on getting schedules at bus stops. She leads the council on the number of policy orders for the last year, mostly focusing on small-scale improvements in the city.

Davis wants to continue focusing on transportation, housing, open space and the environment, she says.

“I want to continue making the city walkable and bikeable and improve the public transportation for us,” Davis says.

On the largest council agenda items, such as the comprehensive rezoning of the city done last February, Davis voted against the majority and for the more stringent, activist-favored plan.

“She has tried to distinguish herself by moving herself to the farther left,” Cambridge political pundit Glenn S. Koocher ’71 says.

Marjorie C. Decker

A first-term councillor, Marjorie C. Decker is a non-traditional progressive who nabbed a seat in 1999 after eight months of door-knocking.

“She was the first unabashed progressive to get elected to the City Council without the CCA endorsement,” Koocher says.

A Cambridge native, Decker positions herself as a neighborhood advocate on the council—meaning she frequently blasts Harvard.