Mark Temons
Mark Temons (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 31. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Temons completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Mark Temons was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1997 to 2001. Temons earned a bachelor's degree from Niagara University in 2000. His career experience includes working in construction design. Temons has been involved in prison reform advocacy and has been affiliated with the Lancaster Friends Quaker Meeting and the Lancaster NAACP.[1][2]
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 31
Dawn Keefer defeated Mark Temons in the general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 31 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dawn Keefer (R) | 60.8 | 80,963 |
 | Mark Temons (D)  | 39.1 | 52,109 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 194 | ||
| Total votes: 133,266 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 31
Mark Temons advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 31 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Temons | 99.3 | 16,083 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 118 | ||
| Total votes: 16,201 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 31
Dawn Keefer advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 31 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dawn Keefer | 98.6 | 23,332 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.4 | 329 | ||
| Total votes: 23,661 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2022
See also: Pennsylvania House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 98
Tom Jones defeated Mark Temons and Joshua Gerber in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 98 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tom Jones (R) | 61.9 | 18,910 |
| Mark Temons (D) | 35.1 | 10,718 | |
 | Joshua Gerber (L) | 3.1 | 937 | |
| Total votes: 30,565 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 98
Mark Temons advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 98 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Temons | 99.6 | 4,231 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 19 | ||
| Total votes: 4,250 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 98
Tom Jones defeated Lu Ann Fahndrich and Faith Bucks in the Republican primary for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 98 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tom Jones | 50.2 | 5,936 |
| Lu Ann Fahndrich | 27.9 | 3,295 | ||
| Faith Bucks | 21.7 | 2,566 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 17 | ||
| Total votes: 11,814 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Logan Hoover (R)
Campaign finance
Endorsements
To view Temons' endorsements in the 2022 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Mark Temons completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Temons' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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An expert in energy efficiency and home accessibility, projects that I designed have saved PA taxpayers 100 million dollars by keeping folks living in their homes through retirement or disability.
I am an advocate for good schools, good jobs, and equal rights for all of us. I believe that leadership begins with listening.
We need more builders in the PA State Senate- Good Schools
We need to fund our public schools adequately and fairly. The PA Constitution requires the General Assembly to provide a thorough and efficient public education system that serves the needs of the commonwealth, and the PA Supreme Court has determined the General Assembly is unconstitutionally negligent. The current legislature is not doing its job.
The state is not paying their fair share, and that is placing an undue burden on homeowners and local governments to cover the gaps.
While every parent has the right to choose the best learning environment for their child, we need to keep public tax dollars in public schools, and the legislature has to reverse damaging cuts and invest in our children and PA's future. - Good Jobs Every worker in Pennsylvania deserves a job with decent pay and benefits. Every worker deserves a safe work environment free of discrimination. This means that workers need collective bargaining rights and the protection of strong unions. As a former carpenter, contractor, small business owner, and home builder who never had the opportunity to join a union, I know how important they are. If we are going to tell high school students that they can enter the trades instead of going to college, then we need to provide them with careers instead of gigs. You are working very hard, and your neighbor is too. Every job is important, and every worker is valuable.
- Reproductive Rights I unequivocally support women's reproductive rights and autonomy over their own bodies. Legislation proposed just two years ago in the PA General Assembly and similar extreme abortion bans across the country have put at risk the lives of anyone who might get pregnant and have interfered in the personal decisions between doctors and patients at every level. We have a responsibility to propose and pass legislation in Pennsylvania that guarantees a woman's right to choose in this State.
To represent people in government and to serve their best interests, you must understand them. We learn about people's lives and what they need from their government and their community by asking questions.
They should also set an example as a citizen and a community member.
After my first year of college, I joined the Marine Corps Reserve and spent the entire summer in Parris Island at basic training. For the rest of my college years, I trained part-time as an enlisted reservist, attended Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in Quantico, VA, during the summer, and worked as a swimming coach to support myself financially through school.
When we don't invest in our future, and when we don't take care of our things, we get broken things and more bills. This applies to our homes, schools, bridges and roads, and our democracy.
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2022
Mark Temons completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Temons' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I support fair school funding, because our children's education shouldn't depend on their ZIP code.
- I'll fight for working people and their right to good paying jobs with benefits and safe work conditions, backed by a strong organized labor movement.
- It's time to fix our outdated drug laws and mandatory minimums. I believe we can make the changes to create safer communities and put less people in prison.
It helped me learn at an early age how to be responsible for the people around me and to be part of a team. For many families, we were babysitters. We all had to jump in a few times and save kids each summer. The job was a lot of fun, but it was very important that we paid attention. Its the same thing that I'm doing now in principle--paying attention.
Workers are falling behind too, which does not bode well for these underfunded students who will become our future. We have the lowest minimum wage in the region. Our organized labor movement is under constant attack, and workers are seeing longer hours for less in return. They're falling behind too, and the success of working families and communities determines our state's future.
We're also seeing aggressive attacks on voting rights in Pennsylvania. The right to vote should be protected, and its fate in the short term will determine the direction of our state for decades to come.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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