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Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 candidate surveys, 2022
This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.
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Candidates and election results
General election
General election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49
Ismail Smith-Wade-El defeated Anne Rivers in the general election for Pennsylvania House of Representatives District 49 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ismail Smith-Wade-El (D)  | 66.7 | 11,045 |
| Anne Rivers (R) | 33.3 | 5,511 | ||
| Total votes: 16,556 | |||
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Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses
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Survey responses from candidates in this race
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Our communities - our cities, townships, and boroughs - have had the power to govern themselves taken away from them by the state legislature. Whether it is keeping housing affordable, giving municipalities the power to decide on taxation, or making safer streets for our kids to talk on, we’re going to Harrisburg to get what belongs to you back.
Voters are worried about their child’s education, about the cost and quality of healthcare, about their ability to provide for their families. We will fight for more funding - especially special education funding - for public schools. We will ensure safe staffing ratios in hospitals and that windfalls to nursing homes are invest in patient care When my mother, an educator, was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of breast cancer, it was the health insurance her union fought that gave us ten more years together as a family. We’re going to protect working people. Every family deserves what my family got, and we’re going to make sure that they get it.
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