1853 Philadelphia mayoral election

The Philadelphia mayoral election of 1853 saw the reelection of Charles Gilpin to a fourth consecutive term.[1]

This would ultimately be the last mayoral election before Philadelphia's county-city consolidation.[1] It would also be the last held for a single-year term as Philadelphia mayor.[1]

Electoral system

Beginning in 1839, the city operated under a mixed electoral system. Citizens voted for mayor in a general election. If a candidate receive a majority of the vote, they would be elected mayor. However, if no candidate received a majority, the City Council would select a mayor from the top-two finishers.[1]

Results

1853 Philadelphia mayoral election results[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Charles Gilpin	8,002	64.56%
	Independent	John Thompson	4,392	35.44%
Total votes			12,394

gollark: There is no perfect language.

gollark: ```Internet Data Handling email — An email and MIME handling package json — JSON encoder and decoder mailcap — Mailcap file handling mailbox — Manipulate mailboxes in various formats mimetypes — Map filenames to MIME types base64 — Base16, Base32, Base64, Base85 Data Encodings binhex — Encode and decode binhex4 files binascii — Convert between binary and ASCII quopri — Encode and decode MIME quoted-printable data uu — Encode and decode uuencode files```Mostly should be libraries outside of the python core, and why are they not under file formats?

gollark: ```Concurrent Execution threading — Thread-based parallelism multiprocessing — Process-based parallelism The concurrent package concurrent.futures — Launching parallel tasks subprocess — Subprocess management sched — Event scheduler queue — A synchronized queue class _thread — Low-level threading API _dummy_thread — Drop-in replacement for the _thread module dummy_threading — Drop-in replacement for the threading module```Not THAT bad, since they mostly do different things.

gollark: Right beside each other.

gollark: ```argparse — Parser for command-line options, arguments and sub-commandsgetopt — C-style parser for command line options```

References

"Mayors of the City of Philadelphia 1691-2000". City of Philadelphia. Retrieved 28 April 2019.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[city1-1] "Mayors of the City of Philadelphia 1691-2000". City of Philadelphia. Retrieved 28 April 2019.