2015 Philadelphia mayoral election

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The 2015 Philadelphia mayoral election was held on November 3, 2015, to elect the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, concurrently with various other state and local elections. Heavily favored Democratic party candidate Jim Kenney won.[2]

Quick facts Turnout, Nominee ...
2015 Philadelphia mayoral election

 2011
November 3, 2015
2019 
Turnout21.84%[1] Increase
 
Nominee Jim Kenney Melissa Murray Bailey
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 203,730 31,563
Percentage 85.36% 13.23%

Kenney:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Bailey:      50–60%

Mayor before election

Michael Nutter
Democratic

Elected mayor

Jim Kenney
Democratic

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Incumbent Democratic party Mayor Michael Nutter could not run for re-election to a third consecutive term due to term limits in the city's home rule charter.[3] Registered Democrats hold a formidable 7-to-1 ratio over registered Republicans in Philadelphia, giving Democratic candidates a distinct advantage in citywide elections.[4]

The mayoral primary elections were held on May 19, 2015. 27% of the city's registered voters voted in the primaries.[5] Democrats nominated Jim Kenney, a member of the Philadelphia City Council, as their party's nominee. Kenney won the primary in a landslide with 55.83% of the vote, defeating a crowded field of five other Democratic candidates, including Anthony H. Williams and former District Attorney Lynn Abraham.[6] Republican Melissa Murray Bailey, a business executive, ran unopposed for the Republican nomination.[6] Had she been elected, Bailey would have become Philadelphia's first female mayor, as well as the city's first Republican mayor in more than 60 years.[4]

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Withdrew

Declined

Polling

More information Poll source, Date(s) administered ...
Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
Alan
Butkovitz
Darrell
Clarke
James
Kenney
Frank
Rizzo
Milton
Street
Ken
Trujillo
Anthony
Williams
Refused
Public Policy Polling*[44] May 27–28, 2014 916 ± 3.2% 12% 14% 7% 10% 4% 1% 2% 41%
22% 11% 67%
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  • * Internal poll for the Alan Butkovitz campaign
More information Poll source, Date(s) administered ...
Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
James
Kenney
Anthony
Williams
Lynne
Abraham
Undecided Other
GBA Strategies*[45] April 9–15, 2015 587 ± 4.1% 26% 25% 22% 18% 9%
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  • * AFSCME poll for the James Kenney campaign.
More information Poll source, Date(s) administered ...
Poll source Date(s)
administered
Sample
size
Margin of
error
James
Kenney
Anthony
Williams
Lynne
Abraham
Milton
Street
Nelson
Diaz
Doug
Oliver
Undecided Other
Public Policy Polling*[46] released April 6, 2015 644 ± 3.7% 26% 25% 20% 4% 3% 3% 19%
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  • * Public Policy Polling poll for the James Kenney campaign.

Results

Democratic primary results by ward
  Kenney
  •   30%-40%
  •   40%-50%
  •   50%-60%
  •   60%-70%
  •   70%-80%
  •   80%-90%
  Williams
  •   40%-50%
  •   50%-60%
  Diaz
  •   40%-50%
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Democratic primary results[47]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic James F. Kenney 130,775 55.81
Democratic Anthony H. Williams 61,160 26.10
Democratic Lynne Abraham 19,782 8.44
Democratic Doug Oliver 9,934 4.24
Democratic Nelson Diaz 8,691 3.71
Democratic Milton Street 3,937 1.68
Democratic Write-in 24 0.01
Total votes 234,303 100.0
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Results by ward[47]

More information Ward, Kenney ...
Ward Kenney Williams Abraham Oliver Diaz Street Write-in Total

votes

# % # % # % # % # % # % # %
1 2,865 83.09% 181 5.25% 237 6.87% 71 2.06% 77 2.23% 17 0.49% 0 0.00% 3,448
2 3,576 72.55% 503 10.20% 520 10.55% 151 3.06% 140 2.84% 36 0.73% 3 0.06% 4,929
3 1,274 30.97% 2,448 59.50% 134 3.26% 147 3.57% 46 1.12% 65 1.58% 0 0.00% 4,114
4 1,369 34.84% 2,077 52.86% 158 4.02% 176 4.48% 65 1.65% 84 2.14% 0 0.00% 3,929
5 3,750 68.07% 478 8.68% 831 15.08% 214 3.88% 206 3.74% 27 0.49% 3 0.05% 5,509
6 1,020 42.62% 1,022 42.71% 125 5.22% 101 4.22% 57 2.38% 68 2.84% 0 0.00% 2,393
7 404 28.73% 238 16.93% 88 6.26% 27 1.92% 601 42.75% 48 3.41% 0 0.00% 1,406
8 3,772 63.42% 619 10.41% 1,117 18.78% 231 3.88% 187 3.14% 21 0.35% 1 0.02% 5,948
9 2,959 69.99% 428 10.12% 436 10.31% 195 4.61% 195 4.61% 14 0.33% 1 0.02% 4,228
10 3,583 58.72% 1,692 27.73% 247 4.05% 365 5.98% 103 1.69% 112 1.84% 0 0.00% 6,102
11 1,073 44.50% 986 40.90% 91 3.77% 127 5.27% 40 1.66% 94 3.90% 0 0.00% 2,411
12 1,990 48.27% 1,348 32.69% 229 5.55% 329 7.98% 106 2.57% 121 2.93% 0 0.00% 4,123
13 1,823 48.13% 1,317 34.77% 201 5.31% 237 6.26% 86 2.27% 124 3.27% 0 0.00% 3,788
14 551 39.27% 598 42.62% 80 5.70% 85 6.06% 46 3.28% 43 3.06% 0 0.00% 1,403
15 2,385 64.93% 393 10.70% 534 14.54% 162 4.41% 161 4.38% 38 1.03% 0 0.00% 3,673
16 695 36.01% 912 47.25% 99 5.13% 95 4.92% 28 1.45% 101 5.23% 0 0.00% 1,930
17 2,182 44.71% 1,987 40.72% 185 3.79% 317 6.50% 98 2.01% 110 2.25% 1 0.02% 4,880
18 1,425 64.25% 171 7.71% 197 8.88% 78 3.52% 323 14.56% 24 1.08% 0 0.00% 2,218
19 691 42.06% 269 16.37% 82 4.99% 19 1.16% 548 33.35% 34 2.07% 0 0.00% 1,643
20 460 39.42% 472 40.45% 54 4.63% 61 5.23% 77 6.60% 43 3.68% 0 0.00% 1,167
21 4,654 70.56% 557 8.44% 923 13.99% 258 3.91% 159 2.41% 45 0.68% 0 0.00% 6,596
22 4,043 60.33% 1,470 21.93% 345 5.15% 520 7.76% 225 3.36% 98 1.46% 1 0.01% 6,702
23 1,421 55.68% 607 23.79% 214 8.39% 116 4.55% 152 5.96% 41 1.61% 1 0.04% 2,552
24 759 41.07% 808 43.72% 94 5.09% 92 4.98% 41 2.22% 54 2.92% 0 0.00% 1,848
25 927 64.29% 196 13.59% 176 12.21% 24 1.66% 100 6.93% 19 1.32% 0 0.00% 1,442
26 3,068 86.23% 112 3.15% 295 8.29% 43 1.21% 31 0.87% 9 0.25% 0 0.00% 3,558
27 898 56.34% 468 29.36% 85 5.33% 52 3.26% 67 4.20% 24 1.51% 0 0.00% 1,594
28 899 43.60% 858 41.61% 104 5.04% 104 5.04% 27 1.31% 70 3.39% 0 0.00% 2,062
29 927 48.01% 707 36.61% 85 4.40% 119 6.16% 28 1.45% 65 3.37% 0 0.00% 1,931
30 2,456 65.81% 650 17.42% 327 8.76% 158 4.23% 90 2.41% 51 1.37% 0 0.00% 3,732
31 1,422 76.21% 109 5.84% 173 9.27% 62 3.32% 83 4.45% 17 0.91% 0 0.00% 1,866
32 1,344 44.27% 1,251 41.21% 126 4.15% 153 5.04% 49 1.61% 113 3.72% 0 0.00% 3,036
33 652 40.62% 327 20.37% 159 9.91% 42 2.62% 380 23.68% 45 2.80% 0 0.00% 1,605
34 3,326 42.01% 3,448 43.55% 454 5.73% 400 5.05% 154 1.95% 135 1.71% 0 0.00% 7,917
35 1,755 52.14% 834 24.78% 344 10.22% 170 5.05% 199 5.91% 64 1.90% 0 0.00% 3,366
36 2,511 42.31% 2,683 45.21% 271 4.57% 228 3.84% 86 1.45% 154 2.59% 2 0.03% 5,935
37 541 27.87% 852 43.89% 116 5.98% 71 3.66% 279 14.37% 82 4.22% 0 0.00% 1,941
38 1,561 47.23% 1,134 34.31% 285 8.62% 198 5.99% 56 1.69% 71 2.15% 0 0.00% 3,305
39 6,874 87.15% 315 3.99% 466 5.91% 121 1.53% 83 1.05% 27 0.34% 2 0.03% 7,888
40 3,099 42.98% 3,252 45.10% 325 4.51% 233 3.23% 92 1.28% 209 2.90% 0 0.00% 7,210
41 1,384 65.44% 239 11.30% 355 16.78% 44 2.08% 61 2.88% 32 1.51% 0 0.00% 2,115
42 1,346 45.81% 735 25.02% 162 5.51% 135 4.59% 495 16.85% 64 2.18% 1 0.03% 2,938
43 888 37.28% 737 30.94% 104 4.37% 122 5.12% 452 18.98% 79 3.32% 0 0.00% 2,382
44 833 32.53% 1,384 54.04% 102 3.98% 122 4.76% 41 1.60% 77 3.01% 2 0.08% 2,561
45 1,278 65.74% 169 8.69% 342 17.59% 35 1.80% 100 5.14% 20 1.03% 0 0.00% 1,944
46 2,423 54.73% 1,445 32.64% 204 4.61% 161 3.64% 134 3.03% 60 1.36% 0 0.00% 4,427
47 473 48.22% 332 33.84% 46 4.69% 72 7.34% 20 2.04% 38 3.87% 0 0.00% 981
48 1,336 45.85% 1,200 41.18% 170 5.83% 86 2.95% 52 1.78% 70 2.40% 0 0.00% 2,914
49 1,725 40.36% 1,783 41.72% 220 5.15% 291 6.81% 162 3.79% 93 2.18% 0 0.00% 4,274
50 4,447 58.44% 2,124 27.91% 285 3.75% 505 6.64% 145 1.91% 102 1.34% 2 0.03% 7,610
51 1,288 31.61% 2,385 58.53% 128 3.14% 114 2.80% 70 1.72% 90 2.21% 0 0.00% 4,075
52 2,666 45.52% 2,232 38.11% 367 6.27% 344 5.87% 138 2.36% 110 1.88% 0 0.00% 5,857
53 1,363 59.21% 391 16.99% 323 14.03% 92 4.00% 109 4.74% 24 1.04% 0 0.00% 2,302
54 858 55.11% 280 17.98% 256 16.44% 62 3.98% 79 5.07% 22 1.41% 0 0.00% 1,557
55 1,999 72.27% 220 7.95% 411 14.86% 49 1.77% 66 2.39% 20 0.72% 1 0.04% 2,766
56 2,582 60.90% 362 8.54% 1,042 24.58% 80 1.89% 147 3.47% 27 0.64% 0 0.00% 4,240
57 2,574 75.71% 240 7.06% 488 14.35% 46 1.35% 43 1.26% 9 0.26% 0 0.00% 3,400
58 3,713 72.24% 337 6.56% 926 18.02% 57 1.11% 80 1.56% 26 0.51% 1 0.02% 5,140
59 2,177 52.31% 1,259 30.25% 222 5.33% 321 7.71% 97 2.33% 85 2.04% 1 0.02% 4,162
60 1,199 33.37% 1,919 53.41% 142 3.95% 170 4.73% 68 1.89% 95 2.64% 0 0.00% 3,593
61 2,112 48.96% 1,282 29.72% 257 5.96% 384 8.90% 189 4.38% 90 2.09% 0 0.00% 4,314
62 1,481 56.77% 548 21.00% 282 10.81% 100 3.83% 158 6.06% 40 1.53% 0 0.00% 2,609
63 2,441 74.49% 175 5.34% 538 16.42% 57 1.74% 59 1.80% 7 0.21% 0 0.00% 3,277
64 1,330 76.70% 109 6.29% 221 12.75% 24 1.38% 37 2.13% 13 0.75% 0 0.00% 1,734
65 2,114 70.40% 220 7.33% 548 18.25% 52 1.73% 55 1.83% 14 0.47% 0 0.00% 3,003
66 3,761 78.35% 276 5.75% 629 13.10% 57 1.19% 63 1.31% 13 0.27% 1 0.02% 4,800
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Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Declined

Results

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Republican primary results[47]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Melissa Murray Bailey 12,632 99.49
Republican Write-in 65 0.51
Total votes 12,697 100.0
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Independent

Candidates

Declared

  • Rhashea Harmon, attorney and Republican nominee for the State Senate in 2010[50][51]

Declined

General election

Candidates

  • Melissa Murray Bailey – Republican Party
  • James Foster – Independent
  • Osborne Hart – Socialist Workers Party
  • Jim Kenney – Democratic Party
  • Boris Kindij – Independent

Results

More information Party, Candidate ...
2015 Philadelphia mayoral election[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jim Kenney 203,730 85.36
Republican Melissa Murray Bailey 31,563 13.23
Independent James Foster 1,713 0.72
Socialist Workers Osborne Hart 1,234 0.52
Independent Boris Kindij 321 0.13
Write-in 103 0.04
Total votes 238,664 100.0
Democratic hold
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Results by Ward[61]

More information Ward, Kenney ...
Ward Kenney Bailey Foster Hart Kindij Write-in Total

votes

# % # % # % # % # % # %
1 3,448 88.12% 387 9.89% 30 0.77% 36 0.92% 11 0.28% 1 0.03% 3,913
2 4,742 85.44% 672 12.11% 65 1.17% 57 1.03% 10 0.18% 4 0.07% 5,550
3 3,179 96.45% 98 2.97% 11 0.33% 5 0.15% 3 0.09% 0 0.00% 3,296
4 3,097 96.60% 79 2.46% 22 0.69% 3 0.09% 4 0.12% 1 0.03% 3,206
5 5,522 81.58% 1,097 16.21% 85 1.26% 47 0.69% 13 0.19% 5 0.07% 6,769
6 2,001 95.15% 80 3.80% 11 0.52% 8 0.38% 2 0.10% 1 0.05% 2,103
7 1,064 92.36% 79 6.86% 5 0.43% 1 0.09% 2 0.17% 1 0.09% 1,152
8 5,603 80.51% 1,219 17.52% 72 1.03% 47 0.68% 14 0.20% 4 0.06% 6,959
9 3,977 82.22% 686 14.18% 113 2.34% 51 1.05% 7 0.14% 3 0.06% 4,837
10 5,148 97.41% 102 1.93% 29 0.55% 3 0.06% 3 0.06% 0 0.00% 5,285
11 2,057 96.03% 67 3.13% 8 0.37% 6 0.28% 3 0.14% 1 0.05% 2,142
12 3,296 93.11% 147 4.15% 62 1.75% 31 0.88% 4 0.11% 0 0.00% 3,540
13 3,118 95.97% 99 3.05% 20 0.62% 8 0.25% 2 0.06% 2 0.06% 3,249
14 1,266 94.62% 58 4.33% 6 0.45% 5 0.37% 3 0.22% 0 0.00% 1,338
15 3,402 80.98% 697 16.59% 40 0.95% 47 1.12% 11 0.26% 4 0.10% 4,201
16 1,469 95.64% 60 3.91% 3 0.20% 3 0.20% 1 0.07% 0 0.00% 1,536
17 3,993 96.52% 123 2.97% 14 0.34% 6 0.15% 1 0.02% 0 0.00% 4,137
18 2,214 84.31% 319 12.15% 36 1.37% 44 1.68% 11 0.42% 2 0.08% 2,626
19 1,182 94.86% 58 4.65% 3 0.24% 2 0.16% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 1,246
20 1,009 95.19% 41 3.87% 2 0.19% 7 0.66% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 1,060
21 6,187 72.93% 2,127 25.07% 92 1.08% 63 0.74% 11 0.13% 3 0.04% 8,483
22 5,887 92.30% 321 5.03% 110 1.72% 49 0.77% 8 0.13% 3 0.05% 6,378
23 2,134 85.19% 344 13.73% 15 0.60% 6 0.24% 4 0.16% 2 0.08% 2,505
24 1,670 92.62% 98 5.44% 8 0.44% 20 1.11% 7 0.39% 0 0.00% 1,803
25 1,324 72.23% 468 25.53% 13 0.71% 16 0.87% 8 0.44% 4 0.22% 1,833
26 3,109 78.95% 788 20.01% 23 0.58% 15 0.38% 2 0.05% 1 0.03% 3,938
27 1,696 89.55% 133 7.02% 20 1.06% 39 2.06% 4 0.21% 2 0.11% 1,894
28 1,763 96.92% 46 2.53% 3 0.16% 5 0.27% 2 0.11% 0 0.00% 1,819
29 1,626 93.77% 89 5.13% 9 0.52% 5 0.29% 4 0.23% 1 0.06% 1,734
30 3,071 86.97% 400 11.33% 32 0.91% 20 0.57% 3 0.08% 5 0.14% 3,531
31 2,037 80.55% 392 15.50% 27 1.07% 60 2.37% 7 0.28% 6 0.24% 2,529
32 2,526 95.61% 91 3.44% 18 0.68% 5 0.19% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% 2,642
33 1,159 84.23% 204 14.83% 3 0.22% 6 0.44% 2 0.15% 2 0.15% 1,376
34 6,650 94.63% 316 4.50% 31 0.44% 22 0.31% 7 0.10% 1 0.01% 7,027
35 2,988 82.66% 596 16.49% 22 0.61% 5 0.14% 4 0.11% 0 0.00% 3,615
36 4,653 94.23% 223 4.52% 24 0.49% 27 0.55% 10 0.20% 1 0.02% 4,938
37 1,695 96.97% 39 2.23% 6 0.34% 4 0.23% 3 0.17% 1 0.06% 1,748
38 2,904 88.08% 340 10.31% 23 0.70% 20 0.61% 7 0.21% 3 0.09% 3,297
39 7,212 88.93% 796 9.82% 32 0.39% 53 0.65% 12 0.15% 5 0.06% 8,110
40 5,285 94.56% 277 4.96% 19 0.34% 7 0.13% 0 0.00% 1 0.02% 5,589
41 1,708 74.04% 568 24.62% 21 0.91% 4 0.17% 4 0.17% 2 0.09% 2,307
42 2,321 92.25% 167 6.64% 20 0.79% 5 0.20% 3 0.12% 0 0.00% 2,516
43 1,728 94.17% 94 5.12% 10 0.54% 3 0.16% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,835
44 2,111 96.52% 57 2.61% 7 0.32% 8 0.37% 3 0.14% 1 0.05% 2,187
45 1,801 66.83% 871 32.32% 14 0.52% 6 0.22% 3 0.11% 0 0.00% 2,695
46 4,057 92.48% 183 4.17% 31 0.71% 109 2.48% 6 0.14% 1 0.02% 4,387
47 841 93.44% 47 5.22% 2 0.22% 6 0.67% 4 0.44% 0 0.00% 900
48 2,347 91.18% 203 7.89% 8 0.31% 13 0.51% 2 0.08% 1 0.04% 2,574
49 3,587 94.94% 163 4.31% 20 0.53% 7 0.19% 1 0.03% 0 0.00% 3,778
50 6,509 96.24% 202 2.99% 30 0.44% 12 0.18% 10 0.15% 0 0.00% 6,763
51 3,177 95.72% 98 2.95% 14 0.42% 21 0.63% 9 0.27% 0 0.00% 3,319
52 4,891 93.79% 278 5.33% 30 0.58% 11 0.21% 3 0.06% 2 0.04% 5,215
53 1,980 79.39% 489 19.61% 12 0.48% 8 0.32% 4 0.16% 1 0.04% 2,494
54 1,271 84.85% 212 14.15% 3 0.20% 9 0.60% 1 0.07% 2 0.13% 1,498
55 2,521 69.93% 1,048 29.07% 20 0.55% 11 0.31% 4 0.11% 1 0.03% 3,605
56 3,820 70.91% 1,518 28.18% 29 0.54% 13 0.24% 4 0.07% 3 0.06% 5,387
57 3,039 67.93% 1,396 31.20% 26 0.58% 4 0.09% 6 0.13% 3 0.07% 4,474
58 4,814 66.80% 2,318 32.16% 49 0.68% 17 0.24% 7 0.10% 2 0.03% 7,207
59 3,579 93.28% 180 4.69% 46 1.20% 25 0.65% 7 0.18% 0 0.00% 3,837
60 2,899 95.08% 113 3.71% 16 0.52% 15 0.49% 5 0.16% 1 0.03% 3,049
61 3,656 92.79% 249 6.32% 21 0.53% 12 0.30% 2 0.05% 0 0.00% 3,940
62 2,163 84.49% 385 15.04% 7 0.27% 3 0.12% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% 2,560
63 3,226 63.89% 1,778 35.21% 30 0.59% 11 0.22% 2 0.04% 2 0.04% 5,049
64 1,708 62.91% 975 35.91% 23 0.85% 7 0.26% 2 0.07% 0 0.00% 2,715
65 2,546 69.02% 1,094 29.66% 24 0.65% 15 0.41% 6 0.16% 4 0.11% 3,689
66 5,067 65.38% 2,621 33.82% 33 0.43% 15 0.19% 9 0.12% 5 0.06% 7,750
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