Parker was officially elected Philadelphia’s 100th mayor on Tuesday. The Democrat is the first woman to hold the office.
Mayor-elect Cherelle Parker cast her vote Tuesday at her polling place inside the Masjidullah mosque in Northwest Philadelphia. At left is her son, Langston Mullins, and at right is her goddaughter, Azaleyah Washington.to become the 100th mayor of Philadelphia. She will be the first woman to hold the office when her four-year term begins in January.
Oh still expressed at least some level of confidence as he cast his ballot Tuesday at William C. Longstreth Elementary School in Kingsessing.While there was little interaction between the two candidates, Parker occasionally made headlines on the campaign trail this fall, including saying in a televised town hall that she hoped to involve the National Guard in an effort to clean up Kensington.
The group has included members of Congress, the State House and Senate, and Council, and it has been key to the election of several mayors, including Kenney. But it has never had one of its own win the city’s top job until Parker, a protégé of Northwest luminaries Tasco and Clark. Parker has credited her high school English teacher Jeanette Jimenez with changing her life by encouraging her to read Black women authors and by coaching her through the speech contest. Jimenez joined Parker as she cast her vote Tuesday morning.
She resigned from Council and announced her much-anticipated mayoral run in September 2022. Her campaign started slow and was overshadowed by other early frontrunners in the primary. But from the beginning, Parker’s campaign had the ingredients that would make it successful: her deep ties to labor and the party.from Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union and garnered the support of scores of Democratic elected officials and ward leaders.
Given her campaign platform and the city’s climate, Parker will undoubtedly be judged based on whether her administration sees a decrease in shootings and homicides.
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