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David Sanders (Indiana)
David Sanders (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Indiana State Senate to represent District 23. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Sanders completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
David Sanders earned a bachelor's degree from Yale College in 1983 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Indiana State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Indiana State Senate District 23
Spencer Deery defeated David Sanders in the general election for Indiana State Senate District 23 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Spencer Deery (R)  | 63.6 | 20,115 |
 | David Sanders (D) | 36.4 | 11,523 | |
| Total votes: 31,638 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana State Senate District 23
David Sanders advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana State Senate District 23 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Sanders | 100.0 | 2,555 |
| Total votes: 2,555 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana State Senate District 23
Spencer Deery defeated Bill Webster, Paula Copenhaver, and Christian Beaver in the Republican primary for Indiana State Senate District 23 on May 3, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Spencer Deery | 30.8 | 3,346 |
 | Bill Webster | 27.0 | 2,929 | |
| Paula Copenhaver | 22.9 | 2,492 | ||
| Christian Beaver | 19.3 | 2,093 | ||
| Total votes: 10,860 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
David Sanders completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sanders' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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David Sanders is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Yale College in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
David Sanders has lived in West Lafayette for more than 25 years. His three sons all attended the West Lafayette public schools.
Dr. Sanders joined the Markey Center for Structural Biology at Purdue University in 1995. He was the discoverer of a biochemical reaction that leads to the entry of cancer-causing retroviruses into cells. Professor Sanders also is the author of two U.S. patents on novel gene-therapy delivery techniques. His work on the Ebola virus led to his participation in the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Biological Weapons Proliferation Prevention Program, a product of the Nunn-Lugar legislation. He has investigated the transmission of viruses from other animals to humans and is often invited to speak on ethics, biodefense, evolution, gene therapy, vaccination and influenza viruses in public forums. Dr. Sanders is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar.
He was elected to the West Lafayette City Council in 2015 and reelected in 2019. Dr. Sanders employs his scientific expertise to create public-policy solutions.
- Commitment to ethics.
- Commitment to privacy.
- Commitment to serving the public.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 6, 2022.
