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Jeff Burningham
Jeff Burningham (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Utah. He lost in the Republican convention on April 25, 2020.
Burningham completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: Utah gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2020
Utah gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2020 (June 30 Republican primary)
General election
General election for Governor of Utah
The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Utah on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Spencer Cox (R) | 63.0 | 918,754 |
 | Chris Peterson (D)  | 30.3 | 442,754 | |
 | Daniel Cottam (L) | 3.5 | 51,393 | |
 | Gregory Duerden (Independent American Party of Utah) | 1.8 | 25,810 | |
| Madeline Kazantzis (Independent) (Write-in) | 1.3 | 18,988 | ||
 | Kristena Conlin (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.1 | 937 | |
 | Richard Whitney (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 230 | |
| Tyler Batty (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 12 | ||
| Total votes: 1,458,878 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Utah
Spencer Cox defeated Jon Huntsman, Gregory Hughes, and Thomas Wright in the Republican primary for Governor of Utah on June 30, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Spencer Cox | 36.1 | 190,565 |
 | Jon Huntsman | 34.9 | 184,246 | |
 | Gregory Hughes | 21.0 | 110,835 | |
 | Thomas Wright | 7.9 | 41,532 | |
| Total votes: 527,178 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jan Garbett (R)
Democratic convention
Democratic convention for Governor of Utah
The following candidates ran in the Democratic convention for Governor of Utah on April 25, 2020.
Candidate | ||
 | Neil Hansen (D) | |
| Ryan Jackson (D) | ||
 | Zachary Moses (D) | |
| ✔ | | Chris Peterson (D) |
 | Nikki Pino (D) | |
 | Archie Williams III (D) | |
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Republican convention
Republican Convention for Governor of Utah
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Gregory Hughes in round 6 , and Spencer Cox in round 6 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 3,579 |
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jeff Burningham completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Burningham's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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It’s not government policies, but the people of Utah who’ve built this strong economy. Government doesn’t create jobs. People do.
The government should not pick winners and losers. It’s time to eliminate unnecessary and onerous occupational licensing laws. We should keep taxes low and easy to administer.
Economic strength will make Utah less reliant on the federal government.
Game-changing leadership means acting now to modernize our education system to prepare our kids for the jobs that exist and those that are coming.
Parents and teachers know best what each child needs. It’s time to empower parents to choose the best education path for their child, and unshackle teachers from top-down mandates so they can do what they do best: teach.
Education should be handled at the state and local level and should be free from federal influence.
They are the foundation of our economy. Innovation and technological advances allow us to access our lands and natural resources in a responsible way, while leaving the land better than we found it.
Nobody loves Utah’s lands more than Utahns. We can access our abundant resources, enjoy recreation and hunting, allow for agriculture use, all while preserving our pristine landscapes.
Change the way our state government thinks. The private sector is on the verge of making self-driving cars a reality but government still makes us stand in line for hours just to renew a driver’s license. Politicians largely operate within the status quo; they are enablers of the systems that made them. But entrepreneurs drive and embrace progress; they are disruptors who make bigger things possible. Utah needs to elect an innovative outsider to introduce new thinking in government.
Serve constituents in a new, better way. The private sector continually innovates to delight customers with less expensive, better-than-expected service. But big government operates in slow, linear bureaucracies. It’s time to get government out of the way, cut waste, and work to eliminate the hassles that people have come to expect from the public sector.
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See also
2020 Elections
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