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The 2023 Philadelphia City Council elections was held November 7, 2023 for elections of all seats in the Philadelphia City Council. The Democratic Party maintained its super-majority on the council. The election took place on the same day as the 2023 Philadelphia mayoral election and other local elections in the Commonwealth.
In 2019, Philadelphians re-elected Jim Kenney to a second term as mayor and 4 new councilmembers joined the city council. Katherine Gilmore Richardson and Isaiah Thomas were elected to at-large seats. Jamie Gauthier beat incumbent Jannie Blackwell in the District 3 primary and Kendra Brooks made history as the first third-party city councilmember in Philadelphia as a Working Families Party candidate.
In preparation for the 2023 Philadelphia mayoral election, 4 City Councilmembers resigned (Green, Domb, Parker, and Quiñones-Sánchez) to run or prepare to run for mayor. While 3 were still considering running (Gym, Oh, and Bass). Council President Darrell Clarke announced a special election to replace the members.
6th District Councilmember Bobby Henon resigned after being convicted of corruption charges and was replaced with Michael Driscoll. 2nd District Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson was facing bribery charges in the months leading up to the election, but was acquitted on November 2, five days before Election Day. [1]
Incumbent Mark Squilla is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Mark Squilla (incumbent) | 22,922 | 98.4 | |
Write-in | 372 | 1.6 | ||
Total votes | 23,294 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Write-in | 42 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 42 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Mark Squilla (incumbent) | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 29,685 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold | |||||
Incumbent Kenyatta Johnson is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Kenyatta Johnson (incumbent) | 18,884 | 95.2 | |
Write-in | 952 | 4.8 | ||
Total votes | 19,836 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in | 34 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 34 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Kenyatta Johnson (incumbent) | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 26,947 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold | |||||
Incumbent Jamie Gauthier is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jamie Gauthier (incumbent) | 16,402 | 99.4 | |
Write-in | 97 | 0.6 | ||
Total votes | 16,499 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in | 16 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 16 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jamie Gauthier | |||
Independent | Jabari Jones | |||
Write-in | ||||
Total votes |
Incumbent Curtis J. Jones Jr. is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Curtis J. Jones Jr. (incumbent) | 20,427 | 98.4 | |
Write-in | 331 | 1.6 | ||
Total votes | 20,758 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Write-in | 26 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 26 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Curtis J. Jones Jr. (incumbent) | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 26,493 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold | |||||
Incumbent Darrell L. Clarke is retiring. Clarke announced his retirement less than two weeks before the deadline to submit ballot petitions, in what media interpreted as an attempt to prevent state senator Sharif Street's preferred candidate from making the ballot. However, both Clarke's and Street's preferred successors failed to make the ballot, as did every other candidate except for one. [18]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jeffery Young Jr. | 14,789 | 93.5 | |
Write-in | 1,032 | 6.5 | ||
Total votes | 15,821 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in | 30 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 30 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Jeffery Young Jr. | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 24,656 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold | |||||
Incumbent Michael Driscoll is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Michael Driscoll (incumbent) | 8,807 | 99.6 | |
Write-in | 39 | 0.4 | ||
Total votes | 8,846 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in | 38 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 38 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Michael Driscoll (incumbent) | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 13,559 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold | |||||
The 7th district seat was filled by Quetcy Lozada in the 2022 special election. Lozada is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Quetcy Lozada (incumbent) | 5,235 | 59.5 | |
Democratic | Andrés Celin | 3,548 | 40.3 | |
Write-in | 14 | 0.2 | ||
Total votes | 8,797 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in | 29 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 29 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Quetcy Lozada (incumbent) | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 11,243 | 100.00 |
Incumbent Cindy Bass is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Cindy Bass (incumbent) | 13,497 | 50.7 | |
Democratic | Seth Anderson-Oberman | 13,074 | 49.2 | |
Write-in | 37 | 0.1 | ||
Total votes | 26,608 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in | 25 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 25 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Cindy Bass (incumbent) | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 28,637 | 100.00 |
The 9th district seat was filled by Anthony Phillips in the 2022 special election. Phillips is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Anthony Phillips (incumbent) | 11,922 | 63.1 | |
Democratic | Yvette Young | 5,013 | 26.5 | |
Democratic | James Williams | 1,932 | 10.2 | |
Write-in | 22 | 0.1 | ||
Total votes | 18,889 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Write-in | 30 | 100.0 | ||
Total votes | 30 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Anthony Phillips (incumbent) | Unopposed | |||
Total votes | 24,780 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold | |||||
Incumbent Brian J. O'Neill is running for re-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Brian J. O'Neill (incumbent) | 4,734 | 99.7 | |
Write-in | 13 | 0.3 | ||
Total votes | 4,747 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Gary Masino | 8,962 | 99.3 | |
Write-in | 66 | 0.7 | ||
Total votes | 9,028 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Brian J. O'Neill (incumbent) | 17,386 | 60.62 | |
Democratic | Gary Masino | 11,244 | 39.21 | |
Write-in | 48 | 0.17 | ||
Total votes | 28,678 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Philadelphia City Council has seven at-large seats, two of which must be represented by a minority party. Two at-large seats were temporarily vacant due to the resignations of Derek S. Green and Allan Domb to consider mayoral runs. They were filled in the special election on November 8, 2022. There will be three open seats in the 2023 election due to the resignations of Helen Gym and David Oh, and the retirement of Sharon Vaughn.
Each party may nominate five candidates for the general election. Voters can select up to five candidates in both the primary and general.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Isaiah Thomas (incumbent) | 108,330 | 12.9 | |
Democratic | Katherine Gilmore Richardson (incumbent) | 93,416 | 11.1 | |
Democratic | Rue Landau | 75,798 | 9.0 | |
Democratic | Nina Ahmad | 66,689 | 7.9 | |
Democratic | Jim Harrity (incumbent) | 52,323 | 6.2 | |
Democratic | Eryn Santamoor | 47,410 | 5.6 | |
Democratic | Amanda McIllmurray | 46,379 | 5.5 | |
Democratic | Erika Almirón | 43,029 | 5.1 | |
Democratic | Sherrie Cohen | 32,430 | 3.9 | |
Democratic | Job Itzkowitz | 27,648 | 3.3 | |
Democratic | Melissa Robbins | 24,523 | 2.9 | |
Democratic | Deshawnda Williams | 22,506 | 2.7 | |
Democratic | Luz Colón | 21,917 | 2.6 | |
Democratic | Donovan West | 21,830 | 2.6 | |
Democratic | John Kelly III | 21,153 | 2.5 | |
Democratic | Jalon Alexander | 16,628 | 2.0 | |
Democratic | Qiana Shedrick | 16,422 | 2.0 | |
Democratic | Abu Edwards | 15,105 | 1.8 | |
Democratic | Michelle Prettyman | 14,720 | 1.8 | |
Democratic | NaDerah Griffin | 12,354 | 1.5 | |
Democratic | Derwood Selby | 11,952 | 1.4 | |
Democratic | Charles Reyes | 11,301 | 1.3 | |
Democratic | Wayne Dorsey | 10,378 | 1.2 | |
Democratic | Ogbonna Hagins | 7,403 | 0.9 | |
Democratic | Christopher Gladstone Booth | 7,195 | 0.9 | |
Democratic | George Stevenson | 7,023 | 0.8 | |
Democratic | Curtis Segers | 6,064 | 0.7 | |
Write-in | 957 | 0.1 | ||
Total votes | 842,883 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Drew Murray | 10,584 | 18.7 | |
Republican | Frank Cristinzio | 10,518 | 18.6 | |
Republican | Gary Grisafi | 9,369 | 16.6 | |
Republican | Jim Hasher | 9,333 | 16.5 | |
Republican | Mary Jane Kelly | 8,751 | 15.5 | |
Republican | Sam Oropeza | 7,527 | 13.3 | |
Write-in | 408 | 0.7 | ||
Total votes | 56,490 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Isaiah Thomas (incumbent) | 190,249 | 16.72% | |
Democratic | Katherine Gilmore Richardson (incumbent) | 183,144 | 16.09% | |
Democratic | Nina Ahmad | 177,654 | 15.61% | |
Democratic | Rue Landau | 170,004 | 14.94% | |
Democratic | Jim Harrity (incumbent) | 148,484 | 13.05% | |
Working Families | Kendra Brooks (incumbent) | 80,807 | 7.10% | |
Working Families | Nicolas O’Rourke | 67,779 | 5.96% | |
Republican | Jim Hasher | 59,243 | 5.21% | |
Republican | Drew Murray | 59,125 | 5.20% | |
Write-in | 1,590 | 0.14% | ||
Total votes | 1,138,079 [lower-alpha 1] | 100.00% | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
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Working Families hold | ||||
Working Families gain from Republican | ||||
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