Your 1-minute guide to Philadelphia's City Controller race

State of play: Incumbent Christy Brady, a Democrat, is facing Republican challenger Ari Patrinos for the four-year post.

Zoom out: Philly's district attorney and statewide judicial races are also on Tuesday's ballot.

Meet the candidates

🔵 Brady had spent roughly three decades working in the city controller's office before winning a special election for the top job in 2023.

• Since then, she's led high-profile audits, including one in 2024 that found faults with the city's rollout of a grant program for community organizations fighting gun violence. Another uncovered that the Philly school district was scammed out of $700,000.
• Brady's priorities include leading financial investigations into the so-called "underground economy" in construction and development, which includes misclassifying workers and paying them under the table, per her campaign website.

🔴 Patrinos is a one-time stockbroker who most recently taught history and math at local charter and public schools, per the Philly GOP website.

• Patrinos' priorities include ensuring that taxpayer dollars are spent responsibly, per the GOP's website.