The challenge started Monday afternoon with all five mayoral candidates - Bob Brady, Dwight Evans, Chaka Fattah, Tom Knox and Michael Nutter - on the island. Fattah was voted off with 2,931 votes cast:
- Fattah - 1,024 votes | 34.9%
- Brady - 990 votes | 33.8%
- Knox - 475 votes | 16.2%
- Evans - 278 votes | 9.5%
- Nutter - 164 votes | 5.6%
Brady survived a tussle with Fattah in Round One, but was eliminated in the very next round as nearly half of the 2,656 votes cast targeted him for dismissal.
- Brady - 1279 votes | 48.2%
- Evans - 563 votes | 21.2%
- Knox - 547 votes | 20.6%
- Nutter - 267 votes | 10.1%
Evans and Knox went around a few times, but ultimately Evans, who received less votes than Knox in Round One, was sent packing, with nearly half of the 2,528 votes cast
- Evans - 1,180 votes | 46.7%
- Knox - 1,046 votes | 41.4%
- Nutter - 302 votes | 11.9%
With 3,653 votes cast, readers voted off Tom Knox, leaving Michael Nutter as the winner of "Mayoral Survival."
- Knox - 2,423 votes | 66.3%
- Nutter - 1,230 votes | 33.7%