2015 Philadelphia mayoral election explained

Election Name:	2015 Philadelphia mayoral election
Country:	Philadelphia
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	2011 Philadelphia mayoral election
Previous Year:	2011
Next Election:	2019 Philadelphia mayoral election
Next Year:	2019
Election Date:	November 3, 2015
Turnout:	21.84%
Image1:	James F. Kenney 2009 (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	Jim Kenney
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Popular Vote1:	203,730
Percentage1:	85.36%
Nominee2:	Melissa Murray Bailey
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Popular Vote2:	31,563
Percentage2:	13.23%
Map Size:	260px
Mayor
Before Election:	Michael Nutter
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Jim Kenney
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)

The 2015 Philadelphia mayoral election was held on November 3, 2015, to elect the Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, concurrently with various other state and local elections. Heavily favored Democratic party candidate Jim Kenney won.^[1]

Incumbent Democratic party Mayor Michael Nutter could not run for re-election to a third consecutive term due to term limits in the city's home rule charter.^[2] Registered Democrats hold a formidable 7-to-1 ratio over registered Republicans in Philadelphia, giving Democratic candidates a distinct advantage in citywide elections.^[3]

The mayoral primary elections were held on May 19, 2015. 27% of the city's registered voters voted in the primaries.^[4] Democrats nominated Jim Kenney, a member of the Philadelphia City Council, as their party's nominee. Kenney won the primary in a landslide with 55.83% of the vote, defeating a crowded field of five other Democratic candidates, including Anthony H. Williams and former District Attorney Lynn Abraham.^[5] Republican Melissa Murray Bailey, a business executive, ran unopposed for the Republican nomination.^[5] Had she been elected, Bailey would have become Philadelphia's first female mayor, as well as the city's first Republican mayor in more than 60 years.^[3]

Democratic primary

Candidates

Declared

Lynne Abraham, former District Attorney of Philadelphia^[6]
Nelson Diaz, former City Solicitor and former Common Pleas judge^[7] ^[8]
James F. Kenney, former Philadelphia City Councilman^[9] ^[10] ^[11]
Doug Oliver, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Philadelphia Gas Works and former press secretary for Mayor Nutter^[12]
Milton Street, former State Senator and candidate for Mayor in 2011^[13] ^[14]
Anthony H. Williams, Minority Whip of the Pennsylvania State Senate and candidate for governor in 2010^[15] ^[16] ^[17]

Withdrew

Jon Bell^[18]
Terry Gillen, former Philadelphia Director of Federal Affairs and former Executive Director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority^[19] ^[20] ^[21]
Keith Goodman, pastor and candidate for Chester City Council in 2005^[22] ^[23]
Ken Trujillo, former City Solicitor^[24] ^[25] ^[26]

Declined

Alan Butkovitz, Philadelphia City Controller^[15] ^[27]
Darrell L. Clarke, Philadelphia City Council President^[28]
Dwight E. Evans, State Representative, candidate for lieutenant governor in 1986, candidate for Governor in 1994 and candidate for Mayor in 1999 and 2007^[29]
Bill Green, former Philadelphia City Councilman and chair of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission^[15] ^[30]
Renée Cardwell Hughes, Chief Executive Officer of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Red Cross and former Common Pleas judge^[31]
Kevin R. Johnson, Philadelphia clergyman and pastor of Bright Hope Baptist Church^[32]
Sam Katz, businessman, public finance executive and Republican nominee for Mayor in 1999 and 2003^[33] ^[34]
Tom Knox, businessman, candidate for Mayor in 2007 and candidate for Governor in 2010^[35]
Alba Martinez, former city Human Services Commissioner and former CEO of the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania^[36]
Richard Negrin, Philadelphia Managing Director^[37]
Frank L. Rizzo, Jr., former Republican Philadelphia City Councilman (running for the City Council)^[38]
Jonathan Saidel, former Philadelphia City Controller^[39] ^[40]
R. Seth Williams, District Attorney of Philadelphia^[15] ^[41]

Polling

Poll source	Date(s) administered	class=small	Sample size	class=small	Margin of error	Alan Butkovitz	Darrell Clarke	James Kenney	Frank Rizzo	Milton Street	Ken Trujillo	Anthony Williams	Refused
		916	± 3.2%	12%	align=center	14%	7%	10%	4%	1%	2%	align=center	41%
		916	± 3.2%	align=center	22%	—	—	—	—	—	11%	align=center	67%

* Internal poll for the Alan Butkovitz campaign

Poll source	Date(s) administered	class=small	Sample size	class=small	Margin of error	James Kenney	Anthony Williams	Lynne Abraham	Undecided	Other
		587	± 4.1%	align=center	26%	25%	22%	18%	9%

* AFSCME poll for the James Kenney campaign.

Poll source	Date(s) administered	class=small	Sample size	class=small	Margin of error	James Kenney	Anthony Williams	Lynne Abraham	Milton Street	Nelson Diaz	Doug Oliver	Undecided	Other
		644	± 3.7%	align=center	26%	25%	20%	4%	3%	3%	19%

* Public Policy Polling poll for the James Kenney campaign.

Results

Results by ward^[42]

Ward	Kenney		Williams		Abraham		Oliver		Diaz		Street		Write-in		Totalvotes
Ward		%		%		%		%		%		%		%	Totalvotes
1	2,865	83.09%	181	5.25%	237	6.87%	71	2.06%	77	2.23%	17	0.49%	0	0.00%	3,448
2	3,576	72.55%	503	10.20%	520	10.55%	151	3.06%	140	2.84%	36	0.73%	3	0.06%	4,929
3	1,274	30.97%	2,448	59.50%	134	3.26%	147	3.57%	46	1.12%	65	1.58%	0	0.00%	4,114
4	1,369	34.84%	2,077	52.86%	158	4.02%	176	4.48%	65	1.65%	84	2.14%	0	0.00%	3,929
5	3,750	68.07%	478	8.68%	831	15.08%	214	3.88%	206	3.74%	27	0.49%	3	0.05%	5,509
6	1,020	42.62%	1,022	42.71%	125	5.22%	101	4.22%	57	2.38%	68	2.84%	0	0.00%	2,393
7	404	28.73%	238	16.93%	88	6.26%	27	1.92%	601	42.75%	48	3.41%	0	0.00%	1,406
8	3,772	63.42%	619	10.41%	1,117	18.78%	231	3.88%	187	3.14%	21	0.35%	1	0.02%	5,948
9	2,959	69.99%	428	10.12%	436	10.31%	195	4.61%	195	4.61%	14	0.33%	1	0.02%	4,228
10	3,583	58.72%	1,692	27.73%	247	4.05%	365	5.98%	103	1.69%	112	1.84%	0	0.00%	6,102
11	1,073	44.50%	986	40.90%	91	3.77%	127	5.27%	40	1.66%	94	3.90%	0	0.00%	2,411
12	1,990	48.27%	1,348	32.69%	229	5.55%	329	7.98%	106	2.57%	121	2.93%	0	0.00%	4,123
13	1,823	48.13%	1,317	34.77%	201	5.31%	237	6.26%	86	2.27%	124	3.27%	0	0.00%	3,788
14	551	39.27%	598	42.62%	80	5.70%	85	6.06%	46	3.28%	43	3.06%	0	0.00%	1,403
15	2,385	64.93%	393	10.70%	534	14.54%	162	4.41%	161	4.38%	38	1.03%	0	0.00%	3,673
16	695	36.01%	912	47.25%	99	5.13%	95	4.92%	28	1.45%	101	5.23%	0	0.00%	1,930
17	2,182	44.71%	1,987	40.72%	185	3.79%	317	6.50%	98	2.01%	110	2.25%	1	0.02%	4,880
18	1,425	64.25%	171	7.71%	197	8.88%	78	3.52%	323	14.56%	24	1.08%	0	0.00%	2,218
19	691	42.06%	269	16.37%	82	4.99%	19	1.16%	548	33.35%	34	2.07%	0	0.00%	1,643
20	460	39.42%	472	40.45%	54	4.63%	61	5.23%	77	6.60%	43	3.68%	0	0.00%	1,167
21	4,654	70.56%	557	8.44%	923	13.99%	258	3.91%	159	2.41%	45	0.68%	0	0.00%	6,596
22	4,043	60.33%	1,470	21.93%	345	5.15%	520	7.76%	225	3.36%	98	1.46%	1	0.01%	6,702
23	1,421	55.68%	607	23.79%	214	8.39%	116	4.55%	152	5.96%	41	1.61%	1	0.04%	2,552
24	759	41.07%	808	43.72%	94	5.09%	92	4.98%	41	2.22%	54	2.92%	0	0.00%	1,848
25	927	64.29%	196	13.59%	176	12.21%	24	1.66%	100	6.93%	19	1.32%	0	0.00%	1,442
26	3,068	86.23%	112	3.15%	295	8.29%	43	1.21%	31	0.87%	9	0.25%	0	0.00%	3,558
27	898	56.34%	468	29.36%	85	5.33%	52	3.26%	67	4.20%	24	1.51%	0	0.00%	1,594
28	899	43.60%	858	41.61%	104	5.04%	104	5.04%	27	1.31%	70	3.39%	0	0.00%	2,062
29	927	48.01%	707	36.61%	85	4.40%	119	6.16%	28	1.45%	65	3.37%	0	0.00%	1,931
30	2,456	65.81%	650	17.42%	327	8.76%	158	4.23%	90	2.41%	51	1.37%	0	0.00%	3,732
31	1,422	76.21%	109	5.84%	173	9.27%	62	3.32%	83	4.45%	17	0.91%	0	0.00%	1,866
32	1,344	44.27%	1,251	41.21%	126	4.15%	153	5.04%	49	1.61%	113	3.72%	0	0.00%	3,036
33	652	40.62%	327	20.37%	159	9.91%	42	2.62%	380	23.68%	45	2.80%	0	0.00%	1,605
34	3,326	42.01%	3,448	43.55%	454	5.73%	400	5.05%	154	1.95%	135	1.71%	0	0.00%	7,917
35	1,755	52.14%	834	24.78%	344	10.22%	170	5.05%	199	5.91%	64	1.90%	0	0.00%	3,366
36	2,511	42.31%	2,683	45.21%	271	4.57%	228	3.84%	86	1.45%	154	2.59%	2	0.03%	5,935
37	541	27.87%	852	43.89%	116	5.98%	71	3.66%	279	14.37%	82	4.22%	0	0.00%	1,941
38	1,561	47.23%	1,134	34.31%	285	8.62%	198	5.99%	56	1.69%	71	2.15%	0	0.00%	3,305
39	6,874	87.15%	315	3.99%	466	5.91%	121	1.53%	83	1.05%	27	0.34%	2	0.03%	7,888
40	3,099	42.98%	3,252	45.10%	325	4.51%	233	3.23%	92	1.28%	209	2.90%	0	0.00%	7,210
41	1,384	65.44%	239	11.30%	355	16.78%	44	2.08%	61	2.88%	32	1.51%	0	0.00%	2,115
42	1,346	45.81%	735	25.02%	162	5.51%	135	4.59%	495	16.85%	64	2.18%	1	0.03%	2,938
43	888	37.28%	737	30.94%	104	4.37%	122	5.12%	452	18.98%	79	3.32%	0	0.00%	2,382
44	833	32.53%	1,384	54.04%	102	3.98%	122	4.76%	41	1.60%	77	3.01%	2	0.08%	2,561
45	1,278	65.74%	169	8.69%	342	17.59%	35	1.80%	100	5.14%	20	1.03%	0	0.00%	1,944
46	2,423	54.73%	1,445	32.64%	204	4.61%	161	3.64%	134	3.03%	60	1.36%	0	0.00%	4,427
47	473	48.22%	332	33.84%	46	4.69%	72	7.34%	20	2.04%	38	3.87%	0	0.00%	981
48	1,336	45.85%	1,200	41.18%	170	5.83%	86	2.95%	52	1.78%	70	2.40%	0	0.00%	2,914
49	1,725	40.36%	1,783	41.72%	220	5.15%	291	6.81%	162	3.79%	93	2.18%	0	0.00%	4,274
50	4,447	58.44%	2,124	27.91%	285	3.75%	505	6.64%	145	1.91%	102	1.34%	2	0.03%	7,610
51	1,288	31.61%	2,385	58.53%	128	3.14%	114	2.80%	70	1.72%	90	2.21%	0	0.00%	4,075
52	2,666	45.52%	2,232	38.11%	367	6.27%	344	5.87%	138	2.36%	110	1.88%	0	0.00%	5,857
53	1,363	59.21%	391	16.99%	323	14.03%	92	4.00%	109	4.74%	24	1.04%	0	0.00%	2,302
54	858	55.11%	280	17.98%	256	16.44%	62	3.98%	79	5.07%	22	1.41%	0	0.00%	1,557
55	1,999	72.27%	220	7.95%	411	14.86%	49	1.77%	66	2.39%	20	0.72%	1	0.04%	2,766
56	2,582	60.90%	362	8.54%	1,042	24.58%	80	1.89%	147	3.47%	27	0.64%	0	0.00%	4,240
57	2,574	75.71%	240	7.06%	488	14.35%	46	1.35%	43	1.26%	9	0.26%	0	0.00%	3,400
58	3,713	72.24%	337	6.56%	926	18.02%	57	1.11%	80	1.56%	26	0.51%	1	0.02%	5,140
59	2,177	52.31%	1,259	30.25%	222	5.33%	321	7.71%	97	2.33%	85	2.04%	1	0.02%	4,162
60	1,199	33.37%	1,919	53.41%	142	3.95%	170	4.73%	68	1.89%	95	2.64%	0	0.00%	3,593
61	2,112	48.96%	1,282	29.72%	257	5.96%	384	8.90%	189	4.38%	90	2.09%	0	0.00%	4,314
62	1,481	56.77%	548	21.00%	282	10.81%	100	3.83%	158	6.06%	40	1.53%	0	0.00%	2,609
63	2,441	74.49%	175	5.34%	538	16.42%	57	1.74%	59	1.80%	7	0.21%	0	0.00%	3,277
64	1,330	76.70%	109	6.29%	221	12.75%	24	1.38%	37	2.13%	13	0.75%	0	0.00%	1,734
65	2,114	70.40%	220	7.33%	548	18.25%	52	1.73%	55	1.83%	14	0.47%	0	0.00%	3,003
66	3,761	78.35%	276	5.75%	629	13.10%	57	1.19%	63	1.31%	13	0.27%	1	0.02%	4,800

Republican primary

Candidates

Declared

Melissa Murray Bailey, businesswoman^[43] ^[44] ^[45] ^[46]

Declined

Ronald D. Castille, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, former District Attorney of Philadelphia and candidate for Mayor in 1991^[47]
Sean Clark, nonprofit executive^[44] ^[45]
Allan Domb, real estate developer and President of the Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors^[48] ^[46]
Rhashea Harmon, attorney and nominee for the State Senate in 2010 (running as an Independent)^[45] ^[46]
Kelvin Jeremiah, President & CEO of the Philadelphia Housing Authority^[49] ^[46]
Sam Katz, businessman, public finance executive and Republican nominee for Mayor in 1999 and 2003^[33]
Elmer Money, candidate for City Council in 2011^[50] ^[44] ^[45] ^[46]
Doug Oliver, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications at Philadelphia Gas Works and former press secretary for Mayor Nutter (running as a Democrat)^[51]
Dana Spain, businesswoman and philanthropist^[52] ^[43]

Results

Independent

Candidates

Declared

Rhashea Harmon, attorney and Republican nominee for the State Senate in 2010^[45] ^[46]

Declined

Bill Green, former Philadelphia City Councilman and former chair of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission^[53]
Sam Katz, businessman, public finance executive and Republican nominee for Mayor in 1999 and 2003^[54] ^[33] ^[34] ^[53] ^[55]
Dana Spain, businesswoman and philanthropist^[56] ^[43]

General election

Candidates

Melissa Murray Bailey – Republican Party
James Foster – Independent
Osborne Hart – Socialist Workers Party
Jim Kenney – Democratic Party
Boris Kindij – Independent

Results

Results by Ward^[57]

Ward	Kenney		Bailey		Foster		Hart		Kindij		Write-in		Totalvotes
Ward		%		%		%		%		%		%	Totalvotes
	1	3,448	88.12%	387	9.89%	30	0.77%	36	0.92%	11	0.28%	1	0.03%	3,913
	2	4,742	85.44%	672	12.11%	65	1.17%	57	1.03%	10	0.18%	4	0.07%	5,550
	3	3,179	96.45%	98	2.97%	11	0.33%	5	0.15%	3	0.09%	0	0.00%	3,296
	4	3,097	96.60%	79	2.46%	22	0.69%	3	0.09%	4	0.12%	1	0.03%	3,206
	5	5,522	81.58%	1,097	16.21%	85	1.26%	47	0.69%	13	0.19%	5	0.07%	6,769
	6	2,001	95.15%	80	3.80%	11	0.52%	8	0.38%	2	0.10%	1	0.05%	2,103
	7	1,064	92.36%	79	6.86%	5	0.43%	1	0.09%	2	0.17%	1	0.09%	1,152
	8	5,603	80.51%	1,219	17.52%	72	1.03%	47	0.68%	14	0.20%	4	0.06%	6,959
	9	3,977	82.22%	686	14.18%	113	2.34%	51	1.05%	7	0.14%	3	0.06%	4,837
	10	5,148	97.41%	102	1.93%	29	0.55%	3	0.06%	3	0.06%	0	0.00%	5,285
	11	2,057	96.03%	67	3.13%	8	0.37%	6	0.28%	3	0.14%	1	0.05%	2,142
	12	3,296	93.11%	147	4.15%	62	1.75%	31	0.88%	4	0.11%	0	0.00%	3,540
	13	3,118	95.97%	99	3.05%	20	0.62%	8	0.25%	2	0.06%	2	0.06%	3,249
	14	1,266	94.62%	58	4.33%	6	0.45%	5	0.37%	3	0.22%	0	0.00%	1,338
	15	3,402	80.98%	697	16.59%	40	0.95%	47	1.12%	11	0.26%	4	0.10%	4,201
	16	1,469	95.64%	60	3.91%	3	0.20%	3	0.20%	1	0.07%	0	0.00%	1,536
	17	3,993	96.52%	123	2.97%	14	0.34%	6	0.15%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	4,137
	18	2,214	84.31%	319	12.15%	36	1.37%	44	1.68%	11	0.42%	2	0.08%	2,626
	19	1,182	94.86%	58	4.65%	3	0.24%	2	0.16%	1	0.08%	0	0.00%	1,246
	20	1,009	95.19%	41	3.87%	2	0.19%	7	0.66%	1	0.09%	0	0.00%	1,060
	21	6,187	72.93%	2,127	25.07%	92	1.08%	63	0.74%	11	0.13%	3	0.04%	8,483
	22	5,887	92.30%	321	5.03%	110	1.72%	49	0.77%	8	0.13%	3	0.05%	6,378
	23	2,134	85.19%	344	13.73%	15	0.60%	6	0.24%	4	0.16%	2	0.08%	2,505
	24	1,670	92.62%	98	5.44%	8	0.44%	20	1.11%	7	0.39%	0	0.00%	1,803
	25	1,324	72.23%	468	25.53%	13	0.71%	16	0.87%	8	0.44%	4	0.22%	1,833
	26	3,109	78.95%	788	20.01%	23	0.58%	15	0.38%	2	0.05%	1	0.03%	3,938
	27	1,696	89.55%	133	7.02%	20	1.06%	39	2.06%	4	0.21%	2	0.11%	1,894
	28	1,763	96.92%	46	2.53%	3	0.16%	5	0.27%	2	0.11%	0	0.00%	1,819
	29	1,626	93.77%	89	5.13%	9	0.52%	5	0.29%	4	0.23%	1	0.06%	1,734
	30	3,071	86.97%	400	11.33%	32	0.91%	20	0.57%	3	0.08%	5	0.14%	3,531
	31	2,037	80.55%	392	15.50%	27	1.07%	60	2.37%	7	0.28%	6	0.24%	2,529
	32	2,526	95.61%	91	3.44%	18	0.68%	5	0.19%	1	0.04%	1	0.04%	2,642
	33	1,159	84.23%	204	14.83%	3	0.22%	6	0.44%	2	0.15%	2	0.15%	1,376
	34	6,650	94.63%	316	4.50%	31	0.44%	22	0.31%	7	0.10%	1	0.01%	7,027
	35	2,988	82.66%	596	16.49%	22	0.61%	5	0.14%	4	0.11%	0	0.00%	3,615
	36	4,653	94.23%	223	4.52%	24	0.49%	27	0.55%	10	0.20%	1	0.02%	4,938
	37	1,695	96.97%	39	2.23%	6	0.34%	4	0.23%	3	0.17%	1	0.06%	1,748
	38	2,904	88.08%	340	10.31%	23	0.70%	20	0.61%	7	0.21%	3	0.09%	3,297
	39	7,212	88.93%	796	9.82%	32	0.39%	53	0.65%	12	0.15%	5	0.06%	8,110
	40	5,285	94.56%	277	4.96%	19	0.34%	7	0.13%	0	0.00%	1	0.02%	5,589
	41	1,708	74.04%	568	24.62%	21	0.91%	4	0.17%	4	0.17%	2	0.09%	2,307
	42	2,321	92.25%	167	6.64%	20	0.79%	5	0.20%	3	0.12%	0	0.00%	2,516
	43	1,728	94.17%	94	5.12%	10	0.54%	3	0.16%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1,835
	44	2,111	96.52%	57	2.61%	7	0.32%	8	0.37%	3	0.14%	1	0.05%	2,187
	45	1,801	66.83%	871	32.32%	14	0.52%	6	0.22%	3	0.11%	0	0.00%	2,695
	46	4,057	92.48%	183	4.17%	31	0.71%	109	2.48%	6	0.14%	1	0.02%	4,387
	47	841	93.44%	47	5.22%	2	0.22%	6	0.67%	4	0.44%	0	0.00%	900
	48	2,347	91.18%	203	7.89%	8	0.31%	13	0.51%	2	0.08%	1	0.04%	2,574
	49	3,587	94.94%	163	4.31%	20	0.53%	7	0.19%	1	0.03%	0	0.00%	3,778
	50	6,509	96.24%	202	2.99%	30	0.44%	12	0.18%	10	0.15%	0	0.00%	6,763
	51	3,177	95.72%	98	2.95%	14	0.42%	21	0.63%	9	0.27%	0	0.00%	3,319
	52	4,891	93.79%	278	5.33%	30	0.58%	11	0.21%	3	0.06%	2	0.04%	5,215
	53	1,980	79.39%	489	19.61%	12	0.48%	8	0.32%	4	0.16%	1	0.04%	2,494
	54	1,271	84.85%	212	14.15%	3	0.20%	9	0.60%	1	0.07%	2	0.13%	1,498
	55	2,521	69.93%	1,048	29.07%	20	0.55%	11	0.31%	4	0.11%	1	0.03%	3,605
	56	3,820	70.91%	1,518	28.18%	29	0.54%	13	0.24%	4	0.07%	3	0.06%	5,387
	57	3,039	67.93%	1,396	31.20%	26	0.58%	4	0.09%	6	0.13%	3	0.07%	4,474
	58	4,814	66.80%	2,318	32.16%	49	0.68%	17	0.24%	7	0.10%	2	0.03%	7,207
	59	3,579	93.28%	180	4.69%	46	1.20%	25	0.65%	7	0.18%	0	0.00%	3,837
	60	2,899	95.08%	113	3.71%	16	0.52%	15	0.49%	5	0.16%	1	0.03%	3,049
	61	3,656	92.79%	249	6.32%	21	0.53%	12	0.30%	2	0.05%	0	0.00%	3,940
	62	2,163	84.49%	385	15.04%	7	0.27%	3	0.12%	1	0.04%	1	0.04%	2,560
	63	3,226	63.89%	1,778	35.21%	30	0.59%	11	0.22%	2	0.04%	2	0.04%	5,049
	64	1,708	62.91%	975	35.91%	23	0.85%	7	0.26%	2	0.07%	0	0.00%	2,715
	65	2,546	69.02%	1,094	29.66%	24	0.65%	15	0.41%	6	0.16%	4	0.11%	3,689
	66	5,067	65.38%	2,621	33.82%	33	0.43%	15	0.19%	9	0.12%	5	0.06%	7,750

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