Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter hardly broke a sweat in sweeping past his lone rival T. Milton Street, the brother of former Mayor John Street, in yesterday’s Democratic mayoral primary.
Nutter’s primary victory all but assures that he will serve another four years as mayor of the fifth most populous city in the United States.
Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of more than 6-1 in Philadelphia. The last Republican mayor of Philadelphia was Bernard Samuel, who left office in 1952.
With 96 percent of the city’s 1,687 precincts reporting, Nutter had 111,235 votes, or 75.8 percent, to Street’s 35,316, or 24.1 percent.
The 53-year-old Nutter, who carried all of the city’s 66 wards, will face either Republican John Featherman, a center city realtor and one-time Libertarian, or Karen Brown, a former Catholic school teacher, in the general election.
Brown and Featherman, who at one point in the evening were literally deadlocked at 8,084 votes apiece, were running neck and neck for their party‘s nomination with Brown — the party’s endorsed candidate — holding a fragile 59-vote lead over her rival with all but 60 precincts reporting.
Brown was a lifelong Democrat before being approached by GOP leaders to run for mayor.
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