Ka rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Philadelphia ta yi taron gunduma na ƙasa dabam dabam, har da a shekara ta 1848 (Whig), 1856 (Jam'iyyar Republican), 1872 (Jam'iyyar Republican), 1900 (Jam'iyyar Republican), 1936 (Jam'iyyar Democrat), 1940 (Jam'iyyar Republican), 1948 (Jam'iyyar Republican)
, 1948 (Ci gaba), 2000 (Jamhuriyar Republican), da kuma 2016 (Democratic). Philadelphia ta kasance gida ga mataimakin shugaban kasa, George M. Dallas, da kuma Janar na yakin basasa, George B. McClellan, wanda ya lashe zaben jam'iyyarsa don shugaban kasa amma ya rasa a zaben da aka yi wa Ibrahim Lincoln a 1864. A watan Mayun 2019, tsohon Mataimakin Shugaban Amurka Joe Biden ya zabi Philadelphia ta zama hedkwatar yakin neman zaben shugaban Amurka na shekarar 2020.