Philip Gift
Philip Gift (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Indiana House of Representatives to represent District 35. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Gift completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Philip Gift was born in Muncie, Indiana. He earned an associate degree from Vincennes University in 1975, a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1981, and a bachelor's degree from Ball State University in 1992. Gift's career experience includes working as a registered nurse.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Indiana House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Indiana House of Representatives District 35
Incumbent Elizabeth Rowray defeated Philip Gift in the general election for Indiana House of Representatives District 35 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Elizabeth Rowray (R) | 71.0 | 22,529 |
 | Philip Gift (D)  | 29.0 | 9,204 | |
| Total votes: 31,733 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 35
Philip Gift advanced from the Democratic primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 35 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Philip Gift | 100.0 | 1,895 |
| Total votes: 1,895 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 35
Incumbent Elizabeth Rowray advanced from the Republican primary for Indiana House of Representatives District 35 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Elizabeth Rowray | 100.0 | 7,261 |
| Total votes: 7,261 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Gift in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Philip Gift completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Gift's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I strongly favor a woman's right to choose how to manage her own pregnancy, without interference from the church or state. This is one of the most basic human rights issues of our time.
- I strongly support public education and will fight to end our wasteful voucher system. Republicans are undermining Indiana’s public education system by sending millions of taxpayer dollars to charter and private schools—funds that public schools sorely need to provide a quality education. In the 2022-23 school year, for example, $311,800,000 went into Indiana’s “school choice” voucher system instead of to our public schools, which provided an education that year for almost a million Indiana students. We must eliminate the voucher system to ensure that our public schools have the funding they need to serve our children.
- I strongly support the legalization of cannabis for both medical and recreational use. I favor this legislation because most Hoosiers do, and in a democracy, the will of the majority of citizens should determine the laws they live under. Instead, our self-righteous Republican Supermajority ignores the wishes of the majority of its constituents, instead enacting its own agenda.
Indiana should join Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and 23 other states that already allow ballot referendums.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 19, 2024
