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Election Results in

Northern Liberties

By Alissa Vladimir

Philadelphians, along with the rest of the country, turned out in record numbers to vote in the presidential election, making the city, which usually favors Democratic candidates, a crucial factor in John Kerry's win over George W. Bush in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia residents voted so strongly for the Democratic candidate that Kerry's margin of victory over President Bush in Philadelphia was three times that of his margin statewide.

Kerry won all 66 wards in the city, including those located in Northern Liberties, which in the days before the election, was decorated with more Kerry/Edwards paraphernalia than the Philadelphia Kerry/Edwards headquarters on Walnut Street. There was no sign of the Republican Party anywhere in the neighborhood.

Voters in Northern Liberties, which cuts into five different city wards, not only turned out in large numbers to vote for Kerry, but also to volunteer with various political organizations such as MoveOn.org, ACORN and American Coming Together. They volunteered to work at polling locations and canvassed around the neighborhood in the days prior to the election. Over 50 Northern Liberties residents volunteered on election day with MoveOn.org, and even more worked with the Kerry campaign, going door to door on the days before the election to make sure that all of the residents were planning to show up at the polls.

In the 15th Ward, which makes up a large percentage of Northern Liberties, voter turnout was over 62 percent, which is significantly higher than it had been in the 2000 presidential election. It came as no surprise when polls results indicated that in this ward Kerry won over seven times as many votes as Bush without even factoring in absentee or provisional ballots. In the 14th Ward, over 3,300 voters turned out to cast their ballots and less than 150 of them choose President Bush.