1991 Philadelphia mayoral election

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

• Lucien Blackwell, City Councilman and Consumers Party nominee for Mayor in 1979
• George R. Burrell, Jr., City Councilman
• Peter Hearn, former Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association
• Ed Rendell, former District Attorney of Philadelphia and candidate for Mayor in 1987

  Results

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

• Ronald Castille, Philadelphia District Attorney
• Sam Katz, municipal finance expert
• Frank Rizzo, former Mayor

  Withdrew

• Joan Specter, City Councilwoman
• Dennis Morrison-Wesley, tax consultant

  Declined

• Thacher Longstreth, nominee for Mayor in 1955 and 1971
• Brian J. O'Neill, City Councilman

  Results

Independents and third parties

Consumer

• Pamela Lawler

  New Alliance

• Willie Dennis-Scott

  New Philadelphia

• Dennis Morrison-Wesley, tax consultant

  Socialist Workers

• Kathleen Mickells, coal miner and nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1988

  General election

Results