1913 Pittsburgh mayoral election

none January 2025 September 2023 1913 Pittsburgh mayoral election Flag of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.svg presidential no 1909 Pittsburgh mayoral election 1909 1917 Pittsburgh mayoral election 1917 November 4, 1913 Joseph G. Armstrong x150px 39,912 51.6% Stephen G. Porter x150px 37,472 48.4% Mayor William A. Magee Republican Party (United States) Joseph G. Armstrong The 1913 Pittsburgh mayoral election was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1913, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Joseph G. Armstrong was elected mayor of Pittsburgh over Stephen G. Porter in a nonpartisan election. Background The election in 1913 was the first Pittsburgh mayoral contest to be conducted under a new nonpartisan ballot law that eliminated party labels from ballots and replaced the party primaries with a nonpartisan blanket primary.Townley John B. The Pittsburgh Press June 23, 1934 16 Pittsburgh Has Had Three Democratic Mayors in 50 Years https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e0wbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nEsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1628%2C144875 In the early stages of the campaign, support formed around two candidates, public works director Joseph G. Armstrong and U.S. Representative Stephen G. Porter. Incumbent mayor William A. Magee, who by law was ineligible to run for a consecutive term, gave his support to Porter, as did longtime political boss William Flinn. U.S. Senators George T. Oliver and Boies Penrose and local Republican leader Max G. Leslie backed Armstrong.National Municipal Review 3 1 January 1914 Beard Charles Austin Notes and Events 151 https://books.google.com/books?id=nVMJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA151 Primary election There were six official candidates in the primary. Although the candidates were officially non-partisan, the press identified Armstrong and Porter as Republicans,The New York Times November 5, 1913 1 Pittsburgh Result Close https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77103207/ Frank I. Gosser as a Democrat,The Philadelphia Inquirer August 15, 1913 3 Democrat Enters Race for Mayor of Pittsburgh https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77103421 William J. Van Essen as a Socialist,The Pittsburgh Post August 26, 1913 4 Definite 'No' by Gen. Logan https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77103995/ and Robert S. Glass as a Prohibitionist. Victor Breitenstein styled himself as "the workingmen's independent candidate" but rejected a socialist label.The Pittsburgh Post August 21, 1913 4 Breitenstein Denies Socialist Imputation https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77104394/ Porter was the top vote-getter, edging second-place Armstrong by 302 votes. The rest of the candidates together captured less than 10 percent of the vote, but this was enough to keep either Porter or Armstrong from attaining a majority.The Gazette Times Pittsburgh October 5, 1913 sec. 4, p. 6 Armstrong Will Not Mince Words https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73329891/ Pittsburgh mayoral primary election, 1913 Nonpartisan Stephen G. Porter 35,206 45.6 Joseph G. Armstrong 34,904 45.2 Frank I. Gosser 5,418 7.0 William J. Van Essen 1,464 1.9 Robert S. Glass 152 0.2 Victor Breitenstein 96 0.1 M.W. Clair 1 0.0 77,241 100.0 Runoff As no candidate received a majority of votes in the primary, a runoff election was held between the top two finishers, Porter and Armstrong. This time Armstrong came out ahead of Porter, by a margin of 2,440 votes.The Pittsburg Press November 16, 1913 1 Dillinger a Winner by 99 Votes https://www.newspapers.com/clip/73328722/ Pittsburgh mayoral runoff election, 1913 Nonpartisan Joseph G. Armstrong 39,912 51.6 Nonpartisan Stephen G. Porter 37,472 48.4 77,384 100.0 References 1909 Pittsburgh mayoral election1913 1917 collapsed 1913 Category:1913 United States mayoral elections Category:November 1913 in the United States Category:1913 Pennsylvania elections Category:1910s in Pittsburgh