On November 7 — Election Day 2023 — all 17 seats on Philadelphia City Council are up for grabs: 10 geography-based district seats and seven at-large seats. Democratic and Republican Philadelphia voters had their first chance to choose their candidates in the May primary.
In the general election on November 7, Democratic and Republican primary winners will run against each other and against third-party candidates such as the Working Families Party’s Kendra Brooks and Nicolas O’Rourke.
AT-LARGE CANDIDATES FOR CITY COUNCIL
(Choose up to five.)
DEMOCRATIC PARTY / REPUBLICAN PARTY / WORKING FAMILIES PARTY
At-large incumbents running for their jobs again are: Kendra Brooks (Working Families Party / WP), Katherine Gilmore Richardson (Democrat / D), Jim Harrity (D, chosen in 2022 by special election) and Isaiah Thomas (D).
DISTRICT CANDIDATES FOR CITY COUNCIL
1ST DISTRICT / 2ND DISTRICT / 3RD DISTRICT / 4TH DISTRICT / 5TH DISTRICT / 6TH DISTRICT / 7TH DISTRICT / 8TH DISTRICT / 9TH DISTRICT / 10TH DISTRICT
District incumbents looking to go another round are: Mark Squilla (D), Kenyatta Johnson (D), Jamie Gauthier (D), Curtis Jones Jr. (D), Mike Driscoll (D), Quetcy Lozada (D, special election), Anthony Phillips (D, special election), Cindy Bass (D) and Brian O’Neill (R).
AT-LARGE CANDIDATES FOR CITY COUNCIL
(Choose up to five.)
Rules dictate that a minimum of two at-large seats on City Council go to members of the non-majority party.
After decades of those two minority seats belonging to Republicans, in 2019, Kendra Brooks of the Working Families Party took an at-large seat. This year, with at-large Republican David Oh having resigned from Council in order to run for mayor, another minority seat is up for grabs — and another WFP candidate is racing Republicans to wants to occupy it.