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Michael Stephenson (Indiana)
Michael Stephenson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 51. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Stephenson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 51
Incumbent Dennis Zent defeated Michael Stephenson in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 51 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dennis Zent (R) | 77.1 | 17,633 |
 | Michael Stephenson (D)  | 22.9 | 5,250 | |
| Total votes: 22,883 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51
Michael Stephenson advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Stephenson | 100.0 | 1,593 |
| Total votes: 1,593 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51
Incumbent Dennis Zent advanced from the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51 on June 2, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dennis Zent | 100.0 | 5,864 |
| Total votes: 5,864 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 51
Incumbent Dennis Zent defeated Michael Stephenson in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 51 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dennis Zent (R) | 75.1 | 12,907 |
| Michael Stephenson (D) | 24.9 | 4,285 | |
| Total votes: 17,192 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51
Michael Stephenson advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michael Stephenson | 100.0 | 884 |
| Total votes: 884 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51
Incumbent Dennis Zent advanced from the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 51 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dennis Zent | 100.0 | 4,928 |
| Total votes: 4,928 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Michael Stephenson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Stephenson's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Labor unions are the people's best weapon against corporate greed.
- Education is the key to our future invest heavily in it now so we can reap the benefits from it later.
- Indiana is constantly renovating old infrastructure and barely keeping up with that, it's far past time Indiana became innovative and started being ahead of the curve to push all of us into the future.
I was only 4 but I remember talking about it in school
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
