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Matt Hackenburg
Matt Hackenburg (Libertarian Party) (formerly Jonathan) ran for election for Governor of Pennsylvania. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Hackenburg completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Matt Hackenburg's career experience includes working as a computer engineer in the aerospace industry. Hackenburg is a former member of the Army National Guard.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Pennsylvania gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of Pennsylvania
Josh Shapiro defeated Doug Mastriano, Matt Hackenburg, Christina Digiulio, and Joseph Soloski in the general election for Governor of Pennsylvania on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Josh Shapiro (D) | 56.5 | 3,031,137 |
 | Doug Mastriano (R) | 41.7 | 2,238,477 | |
 | Matt Hackenburg (L)  | 1.0 | 51,611 | |
 | Christina Digiulio (G) | 0.5 | 24,436 | |
 | Joseph Soloski (Keystone Party of Pennsylvania) | 0.4 | 20,518 | |
| Total votes: 5,366,179 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Eddie Wenrich (Independent)
- Christina Olson (Green Party of Pennsylvania)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Pennsylvania
Josh Shapiro advanced from the Democratic primary for Governor of Pennsylvania on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Josh Shapiro | 100.0 | 1,227,151 |
| Total votes: 1,227,151 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Tega Swann (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Pennsylvania
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Pennsylvania on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Doug Mastriano | 43.8 | 591,240 |
 | Lou Barletta | 20.3 | 273,252 | |
 | Bill McSwain | 15.8 | 212,886 | |
 | David White | 9.6 | 129,058 | |
 | Melissa Hart | 4.1 | 54,752 | |
 | Joe Gale | 2.1 | 27,920 | |
 | Jake Corman III (Unofficially withdrew) | 1.9 | 26,091 | |
 | Charlie Gerow | 1.3 | 17,922 | |
 | Nche Zama | 1.2 | 16,238 | |
| Total votes: 1,349,359 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jason Monn (R)
- Guy Ciarrocchi (R)
- Scott Martin (R)
- Jason Richey (R)
- John Ventre (R)
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Matt Hackenburg completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hackenburg's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- We, the people of Pennsylvania, should decide what happens in Pennsylvania. What’s best for us is not necessarily what’s best for other states. Any and all laws coming from corrupt D.C. that infringe on our rights should be nullified and made unenforceable.
- Our children have suffered enough. They're forced to attend failing government schools, stripped of their creativity, indoctrinated into servanthood, and robbed of their dignity while being muzzled literally and figuratively throughout. We as parents know best how to raise our kids, and the State shouldn't come between us.
- Taxes on our income, our property, at the store, on our gas, everywhere we turn. Criminal politicians steal money from our kitchen table and waste it. Meanwhile, most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and struggle month in and month out. You know better how to spend your money than politicians hundreds of miles away. We must end the theft of taxation and restore our prosperity.
The tyranny of the COVID regime was unprecedented: locking us in our homes, taking away our jobs, muzzling our kids, and doing untold damage to our friends and family. We are not free if we don’t have body autonomy. We must end medical tyranny, any and all government mandates, and return the power to make health decisions to the individual and our families.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 11, 2022
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