Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Philadelphia ta karbi bakuncin tarurruka daban-daban na kasa, ciki har da 1848 (Whig),
1856 (Jamhuriyar Republican), 1872 (Jamhuriyar Republican), 1900 (Jamhuriyar Republican), 1936 (Democratic), 1940 (Jamhuriyar Republican), 1948 (Jamhuriyar 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.