Reclaim Philadelphia's 2026 Primary Election Ballot Guide
Reclaim Philadelphia’s Citywide Committee invites you to support our member endorsed candidates for Philadelphia’s Primary on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. We’ve also detailed some recommendations in races and ballot questions that were not part of our member endorsement process.
MEMBER ENDORSEMENTS
Representative in Congress (3rd District)
#5 Chris Rabb
Read our analysis on this Congressional race
Representative in the General Assembly
181st District
#12 Malcolm Kenyatta
184th District
#12 Elizabeth Fiedler
188th District
#12 Rick Krajewski
190th District
#12 Roni Green
194th District
#12 Tarik Khan
195th District
#14 Sierra McNeil
200th District
#13 Chris Johnson
201st District
#12 Andre D Carroll
RECOMMENDATIONS
Many members and supporters have asked how to vote on some of the other races and ballot questions. After reviewing the positions of allied organizations and reported information in various public outlets, Reclaim Philadelphia’s Citywide Committee offers the following recommendations. As our members did not vote on these recommendations, they are not formal Reclaim Philadelphia endorsements, but we ask that you support these candidates and ballot questions.
Member of the Democratic State Committee
The Democratic state committee is the governing body of the Pennsylvania Democratic party at the state level. Members direct the party's platform, organize statewide campaigns, and endorsing candidates for statewide offices. The party rules require gender parity -- equal representation between men and women. They don't yet have language around trans and nonbinary representation, something we urge them to rethink." We recommend only voting for the following candidates to guarantee their success.
1st District
#15 Frank Iannuzzi
#23 Rita Ludwig
2nd District
WRITE-IN Kristen Scalise
WRITE-IN Bartosz Jaskulski
3rd District
#22 Dustin Dove
#23 Keir Bradford-Grey
4th District
#22 Iaisha Thomas
#23 Andre Carroll
5th District
#17 Cathy Bartch
7th District
#16 Jeremy High
Member of Democratic Ward Executive Committee
The Ward Executive Committee is the governing body of the Philly Democratic City Committee. Often simply known as “Committee People”, they are the most grassroots level of elected office in the Democratic Party tasked with registering, informing, and turning out voters in elections. Up to two committee people are elected to serve in one of the 1,703 divisions in the city. Unfortunately, the majority of wards in the city are closed, meaning ward endorsements are decided solely by the ward and there is little transparency over ward finances and decisions. Open wards are wards where ward endorsements and decisions are made democratically by all committee people and have been tied to higher voter turnout. In the last General Election, 4 out of the 5 top voter turnout wards were open despite only making up a dozen of the 66 wards in the city. Since 2018, Reclaim has supported organizing that opened and democratized 6 wards.
We encourage you to only support these recommended reform candidates in the following wards. Where you see a solo candidate listed with a (*) we encourage you to bullet vote that name, which means you only vote for that one candidate despite having many other options. This ensures our recommended candidates have greater success.
This list will be dynamic and will continue to be updated and we are checking with reform leaders in the wards for consent before recommending candidates publicly. There are many candidates we privately support that we cannot list publicly. We hope to have the list finalized by election day.
25th Ward
25-02 WRITE-IN Nelson R. Drakeford
25-04 WRITE-IN Devon Grace Brewer
25-05 Sara Baier & Lohit Myneedu
25-07 WRITE-IN Raphael Castro
25-23 WRITE-IN Rachel Mack
27th Ward
27-01 Noah Kocher*
27-06 WRITE-IN Frances Harvey
27-07 Calvin Okunoye
27-09 Mary Goldman & WRITE-IN Owen Sahnow
27-10 Sylvia M. Hammerman-Brown & Michael T. Brown
27-17 Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela & Joseph B. Russo
27-23 Benjamin Moss-Horwitz & Tammer Ibrahim
Finalized list of 27th to be shared later today Weds May 13
31st Ward
31-01 Matthew A. Hennessey*
31-03 Katherine Rivera & Timothy James Walsh
31-04 Kimberly Jordan & Elise Johnston
31-05 Kristen Lee Mallon*
31-06 Abby Buurma & Jack McMaster
31-08 Adrián Rivera-Reyes & Gordon Coonfield
31-09 Anne Erickson & Jordyn Adegun
31-10 Holly Fitzpatrick*
31-11 Brian A Wentworth & Jillian Wentworth
31-12 Rob Wetherington*
31-13 Omeed Firouzi & Molly Hartman
31-14 Kristina Dugan & John Murray
31-15 Amy Levine & Marc Schwoerer
31-16 Zachary Holliday*
31-18 Matthew Rothstein*
39th Ward
39-01 Wei Chen & Leah M. Coonan
39-02 Jared Cram*
39-04 Amanda L. McIlmurray & Michele Winters
39-05 Hannah Holliday & John Lee Dizzley
39-08 Jeffrey J. Wasch & Andrew C. Martin
39-10 Noa Goihberg & Melvin Romero-Tobar
39-18 John R. Davis & Steve Forte
39-22 Clare Greene*
46th Ward
46-01 Jarrett Smith & Ilya Knizhnik
46-02 Alexander Benjamin Kauffman & Lizzie Rothwell
46-03 Jeremy Adam Friedman & Gina M. Renzi
46-04 Rick Krajewski & Vik Patel
46-05 Jaleel I. Jones & Allison Guy
46-07 Mack Finkel & Michael R. Froehlich
46-08 Isabel Knight & Brooke O’Harra
46-09 Thomas Patteson & Tzara Kane
46-10 Jordan Levy *
46-11 Sergio Cea*
46-12 Sharmin Hossain & Devren Washington
46-13 Sam Terry*
46-14 Janene Rae Brown*
46-17 Dom Shannon
46-18 Ann W. Dixon & Roseann Liu
46-20 Joseph Meier*
46-22 Cesar Julian Ruiz de Castilla & James Bridgeforth
46-23 Elizabeth Danielle Schlingmann & Fahmida Hussain
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT VOTING
Verify your voter Registration: Even if you are a regular voter, it’s always good to verify your registration. You can only vote where you are currently registered to vote which may not be where you currently reside. The deadline to register to vote or update your voter registration has passed.
If voting by mail: Once you receive your mail-in ballot, we advise you to drop it off as soon as possible ONLY at the Board of Elections in City Hall, the closest 24/7 Ballot Drop Off Box, or the closest Satellite Election Office by 8pm on Tues May 19, Election Day, not your polling place. The deadline for the vote by mail application has passed.
Make your mail-in ballot count: 1) Mark your ballot with a black or blue pen. 2) Seal it in the secrecy envelope. 3) Seal the secrecy envelope into the return envelope. Ballots without the secrecy envelope will not be counted! 4) Sign and date the return envelope.
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