Committee of Seventy - 1991 May Primary Results

Results of the Philadelphia Municipal Primary Election on May 21, 1991

The official election turnout was 49.3%, with 456,853 voters participating out of 926,023 registered voters. Democrats had a 49.2% turnout, with 320,442 voters participating in their primary; Republicans had a 53.4% turnout, with 134,003 voters participating in their primary.

OFFICE FOR ELECTION	DEMOCRATIC BALLOT	REPUBLICAN BALLOT
Mayor	Lucien Blackwell – 79,212 George R. Burrell, Jr. - 43,787 Peter Hearn – 26,353 Edward G. Rendell – 146,373	Sam Katz – 36,764 Frank L. Rizzo – 47,523 Ronald D. Castille – 46,094
City Commissioner (nominate 2 per party)	Margaret Tartaglione* - 102,309 Alexander Talmadge, Jr. - 59,019 Robert J. Avellino – 43,480 Chuck Feldman – 50,205 Maurice Floyd* – 29,392	John F. Kane* – 58,343 Mary A. Tierney – 53,416
Register of Wills	Ronald R. Donatucci* - 106,256	Harry Schwartz – 59,634
Sheriff	John D. Green* - 116,426	Bob Hurst – 63,464
Clerk of Courts	Vivian T. Miller - 80,859 Wendella P. Fox – 62,547	Charles J. Cunningham – 56,743
City Council At-Large (nominate 5 per party)	William J. Leonard – 57,652 Bennie J. Swans, Jr. – 43,122 Letitia A. Abel – 21,511 Yoan H. Kim – 26,745 Carlos A. Acosta – 30,675 James F. Kenney – 79,736 Arnold E. Mitchell – 18,614 W. Wilson Goode, Jr. - 42,607 Thomas Bundy – 8,291 John B. Kelly – 25,421 Warren Messing – 8,656 William A. Coles – 9,622 Robert S. Barnett – 57,190 Angela R. Giannettassio – 13,379 Noel M. Weyrich – 5,334 Angel L. Ortiz* – 72,040 Francis Rafferty* – 48,255 David Cohen* – 61,484 Charles M. Wingfield – 8,741 Roger Tauss – 33,967 Augusta A. Clark* – 75,134 Juanita H. Norwood – 7,021 Happy Fernandez – 61,105 Bilal Qayyum – 25,224 Joseph J. Bolduc – 2,921	Joseph M. Egan* – 62,007 Edward Moffit – 26,027 Delores Weaver* – 38,306 Tony Brooks – 19,628 Joseph Pirolli – 28,763 W. Thatcher Longstreth* – 63,224 Diana L. Roca* – 33,153 Teresa M. Bold – 17,511 Joan Specter* – 57,106 Marie McGuirl - 18,322 Charles F. Volz, Jr. – 19,364
City Council 1st District	Bill Passio, Jr. – 1,879 Joseph C. Vignola – 11,449 Michael DiBerardinis – 9,490	Connie McHugh – 7,869
City Council 2nd District	Anna Verna* - 18,160 John P. Weiss – 1,777	Benedetto Greco, III – 4,392
City Council 3rd District	Jannie L. Blackwell - 15,214	Howard Eugene Williams - 750
City Council 4th District	Michael A. Nutter - 13,802 Ann Land* – 12,107	Bill O’Brien – 5,322
City Council 5th District	Rodnie Jamison – 3,368 John F. Street* - 10,196 Paula S. Taylor – 2,561 Julie Welker – 8,427	Harry Beiger – 1,325
City Council 6th District	Joan L. Krajewski* - 19,493	Karen Sullivan Wakshul – 10,811
City Council 7th District	Daniel P. McElhatton – 8,149 William G. Stinson – 8,132	Jack Kelly* - 10,247
City Council 8th District	Robert T. Vance, Jr. – 8,546 Nolan N. Atkinson, Jr. – 3,494 Richard Rogers – 617 Rosita C. Youngblood – 5,199 Florence G. Garrett – 1,721 Herbert H. De Beary, Sr. – 8,663 Edward S. Lee – 1,052	Marilyn Shane – 2,136
City Council 9th District	Marian B. Tasco* - 17,985	William Patrick Ivers – 1,988
City Council 10th District	Thomas Albert Mills – 8,851	Brian J. O'Neill* - 16,256

Judicial Offices	DEMOCRATIC BALLOT	REPUBLICAN BALLOT
Supreme Court (statewide, 0 per party – votes here are Phila. only)	No vacancies this election cycle
Superior Court (statewide, 0 per party – votes here are Phila. only)	No vacancies this election cycle
Commonwealth Court (statewide, 2 per party – votes here are Phila. only)	James R. Kelley (Westmoreland) – 89,070 Shelly Friedman (Allegheny) – 53,648 George Yatron (Berks) – 30,784 James P. Coletta (Allegheny) – 25,015	Tom Morgan (Clearfield) – 51,726 Robert L. Byer (Allegheny) – 49,523
Court of Common Pleas (nominate 16 per party)	Ira B. Shrager – 58,752 Gary S. Glazer – 79,368 Joan A. Brown – 68,813 A. Jack Snite, Jr. – 69,145 Myrna Field – 101,691 Jay S. Gottlieb – 46,036 Ronald J. Sharper – 45,093 Thomas Dempsey – 63,707 Arnold L. New – 79,502 James A. Lineberger – 63,326 Arthur S. Kafrissen – 62,071 James Murray Lynn – 86,414 Robert J. Matthews – 33,220 Hal Abramson – 76,399 Seamus P. McCaffery – 46,793 Nitza I. Quinones-Alejandro – 65,132 William Porter – 25,277 Richard A. McDaniel – 25,159 Paul P. Panepinto – 61,726 D. Webster Keogh – 24,273 Felice R. Stack – 53,443 Aaron Finestone – 23,712 Joseph I. Papalini – 61,752 Anne Lazarus – 79,577 Gregory E. Smith – 60,344 Flora Barth Wolf – 66,905 Steven R. Geroff – 33,917 M. Teresa Sarmina – 26,835 Michael G. Floyd – 21,592 William L. Akers – 40,992 Joyce Shenkman Mozenter – 57,068 Allan L. Tereshko – 56,577 Steven G. Laver – 42,754 Thomas A. Bello – 32,392	William Porter – 21,571 Seamus P. McCaffery – 31,426 Joseph I. Papalini – 43,763 D. Webster Keogh – 42,836 Joyce Shenkman Mozenter – 43,056 Anne Lazarus – 46,271 Arnold L. New – 38,363 Arthur S. Kafrissen – 36,627 Felice R. Stack – 24,941 Robert J. Matthews – 45,186 Allan L. Tereshko – 41,169 Paul P. Panepinto – 48,284 A. Jack Snite, Jr. – 34,743 M. Teresa Sarmina – 24,395 Steven R. Geroff – 21,744 James Murray Lynn – 38,734 Steven G. Laver – 28,410 Gary S. Glazer – 30,886 Ira B. Shrager – 11,083 Flora Barth Wolf – 15,583 Thomas A. Bello – 35,136 Thomas Dempsey – 18,988 Myrna Field – 17,146 James A. Lineberger – 29,049 Aaron Finestone – 30,360
Municipal Court (nominate 0 per party)	No vacancies this election cycle
Traffic Court (nominate 1 per party)	Bernice Ann DeAngelis – 92,629 Wycliffe Jangdharrie – 22,904 John V. Collazzo – 11,611 John C. Furey – 19,674	Bernice Ann DeAngelis – 31,065 John V. Collazzo – 33,409

Municipal Ballot Question:

“Should the City of Philadelphia borrow $108 million for and toward: Sanitation Facilities; Street Improvements; Municipal Center Facilities; Police, Fire and other Muncipal Purposes; other Buildings and Facilities; Libraries; Convention Hall and Civic Center; Parks, Playgrounds and Recreational Facilities; Museums; Housing and Community Development; Transit; Industrial and Economic Development; Health; and Human Services?”

yes – 73,330 no – 54,426