Elections

Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, who is facing challenger Angel Cruz, alleged widespread tampering in her last election.

Polls for the 2019 primary election open at 7 a.m. in the Philadelphia region as residents gear up to vote on a number of key offices and ballot amendments.

Philadelphia progressive organizations are mounting a field effort they expect to compete with the Democratic ward organization in Tuesday’s primary election.

Where to have political fun on the evening of May 21.

Some of Kenney’s boldest moves have come on education issues. But he’s also taken a restrained approach to the city's school system.

Paper ballots are replacing push-button machines as a part of a nation-wide push to update voting technology and make it more secure.

With Democrats making up the majority registered voters in Philadelphia, most winners are chosen during the primaries. Now a new faction of the party is rising.

Philadelphia voters in Tuesday’s primary election will help determine the future of City Council — and of policies to deal with the city’s affordable housing crisis.

Fewer than one in three Philadelphians voted in the last mayoral primary, and that was for an open seat.

At least a dozen wards — most of them in the Northeast — will not be including incumbent GOP Councilman David Oh on their sample ballots.

After nearly four years as Philadelphia’s mayor, Jim Kenney says he expects to be re-elected, but, if that doesn’t happen, he might become a teacher.

No matter who wins on Election Day, councilmanic prerogative is likely not going away. Here’s why.

Campaign finance reports show IBEW Local Union 98 headed by indicted union leader John ‘Johnny Doc’ Dougherty gave more than $700,000 to city candidates this spring.

Former state representative and state senator T. Milton Street announced in a Facebook post Wednesday afternoon that he intends to seek this city's highest office this year.

Mayoral candidate Alan Butkovitz sees the irony in the fact that everything he had trouble with in school, he ended up having to do as part of his work or part of his life.