Daily News | The dollars per vote in this year’s mayoral election, from $26 for Cherelle Parker to $460 for Allan Domb
Allan Domb and Jeff Brown dumped their own money into their mayoral campaigns. But they didn’t get much bang for their buck.more than $11 million of his own money to his campaign, and had nearly $460 in his war chest for every vote he received — the highest cost-per-vote of any mayoral candidate in recent city history. Brown, a grocer, gave his campaign $4 million, amassing about $300 per vote.who handily won the Democratic nomination.
Campaigns and PACs have two more weeks to report campaign finance data from the home stretch of the campaign, so this year’s totals will continue to grow.with seven Democrats each attracting hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least, in donations. And it was just the second major mayoral primary since outside groups known as super PACs became legal. Super PACs aren’t subject to the city’s strict fundraising limits, but they cannot coordinate with the campaigns they support.
The largest expense, by far, is advertising, and one of the most effective ways to reach voters — television commercials — is pricey. On top of that, all the top contenders — except Domb — were backed by super PACs, which became legal in Philadelphia after the 2010 Supreme Court decision inThe only other competitive mayoral campaign in the super PAC era so far was in 2015, when Jim Kenney decisivelyOnly he and State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams were backed by super PACs, and none of the candidates that year were big self-funders.
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