2001 Pittsburgh mayoral election
Elections in Pennsylvania |
---|
![]() |
![]() |
The Mayoral election of 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2001. The incumbent mayor, Tom Murphy of the Democratic Party was running for a record-tying third straight term.
Primary elections
Tom Murphy had a very close and personal primary battle with City Council President and future mayor Bob O'Connor. Murphy won the primary by just a few hundred votes, and in later years this primary battle was the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice probe. It was alleged but never proven in court that Mayor Murphy had a quid pro quo agreement with the powerful Firefighters union in the city, promising to exempt them from city wide budget cuts in return for "bought" votes.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Tom Murphy | 32,683 | 48.3 | ||
Democratic | Bob O'Connor | 31,984 | 47.3 | ||
Democratic | Leroy Hodge | 1,659 | 2.5 | ||
Democratic | Joshua Pollock | 1,094 | 1.6 | ||
Democratic | Earl V. Jones, Sr. | 237 | 0.4 | ||
Turnout | 67,657 |
General election
A total of 52,839 votes were cast in the heavily Democratic city. As expected, Murphy won by a huge margin over James Carmine, a philosophy professor at Carlow University.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Tom Murphy | 39,257 | 74.3 | ||
Republican | James Carmine | 12,175 | 23.0 | ||
Turnout | 52,839 | ||||
Democratic hold | Swing |
References
- ^ a b Allegheny County Official Election Results, Allegheny County Board of Elections, 2001-05-08, retrieved 7 October 2009 Cite error: The named reference "PGHGenelection2001" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- "Republican mayoral candidates through the years". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
Preceded by 1997 |
Pittsburgh mayoral election 2001 |
Succeeded by 2005 |