Cherelle Parker, the Democratic candidate for the mayor's race in Philadelphia, voted in-person on Election Day at the Masjidullah mosque in the city's East Mount Airy neighborhood.
With her son and godson in tow, Parker voted a straight Democratic ticket, and addressed gathered members of the media upon stepping from the voting booth.
"It's pretty surreal right now," she said, upon exiting the booth. "Never in a million years did I think that this would be a place and a space that I would occupy in this world. I am grateful today for the folks on whose shoulders I stand to get here. I am humble."
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The 51-year-old Parker, a former city councilwoman who also served for 10 years as a state representative for northwest Philadelphia, is running against Republican David Oh, himself a former city councilmember, in the race to replace Mayor Jim Kenney.
Her opponent, Oh did not provide NBC10 with information on where or when he would be voting.
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