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Philadelphia municipal election, 1951
Philadelphia's municipal election of November 6, 1951 was the first held under the city's new charter, which had been approved by the voters the previous April. The positions contested included those of mayor, district attorney, all seventeen city council seats, among other offices. There was also a referendum on whether to consolidate the city and county governments. Citywide, the Democrats took majorities of over 100,000 votes, breaking a 67-year Republican hold on city government. Joseph S. Clark, Jr. and Richardson Dilworth, two of the main movers for the charter reform, were elected mayor and district attorney, respectively. The Democrats also took fourteen of seventeen city council seats, and city-county consolidation passed by a wide margin. The election marked the beginning of Democratic dominance of Philadelphia city politics, which continues today.
==Mayor==
The incumbent Republican mayor, Bernard Samuel, did not run for re-election, leaving an open seat to be contested by the Republican nominee, Daniel A. Poling, and the Democrat, Joseph S. Clark, Jr. Clark was a lawyer and United States Army officer who had served in World War II. Raised in a Republican family, he switched his party affiliation to the Democrats in 1928. After several unsuccessful attempts at public office in Philadelphia, he served as a Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania. Clark was known as a reformer, having been elected city controller two years earlier in 1949 on a platform of cleaning up corruption in the city. In those two years, Clark probed various inefficiencies, graft, and theft in the Samuel administration and reported his findings to the voters. Many of those accused of crimes were convicted, and nine committed suicide. Clark continued his push for reform by urging adoption of a new city charter, which was approved by referendum in April 1951. He campaigned for mayor with the promise of a "clean sweep of City Hall".
The Republican nominee, Poling was a Baptist preacher, which GOP leaders hoped would help deflect the corruption charges leveled against the machine. Poling had worked for various charitable organizations and managed the ''Christian Herald''. His son, Clark V. Poling, was one of the Four Chaplains lost aboard the SS Dorchester in World War II, and Poling served as pastor at the chapel erected in their memory.
The election was a landslide for Clark, as he won by more than 120,000 votes. With 58% of the vote, the Democrats had gained nearly 215,000 votes from the last election, in which they had been defeated. As the vote tally became apparent, he told reporters that it was a "great victory for the thinking people of Philadelphia and it ends a long hard fight."
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