Patricia Lawton (Pennsylvania)
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Patricia Lawton (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent District 27. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Patricia Lawton was born in Denver, Colorado. She earned a bachelor's and graduate degree from Bloomsburg University in 1993. Her career experience includes working as a educator and administrator.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Pennsylvania State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27
Incumbent Lynda Schlegel Culver defeated Patricia Lawton in the general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lynda Schlegel Culver (R) | 78.0 | 40,417 |
 | Patricia Lawton (D) | 22.0 | 11,385 | |
| Total votes: 51,802 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27
Patricia Lawton advanced from the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Patricia Lawton | 99.2 | 12,730 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 98 | ||
| Total votes: 12,828 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27
Incumbent Lynda Schlegel Culver advanced from the Republican primary for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27 on April 23, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lynda Schlegel Culver | 99.5 | 27,299 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 128 | ||
| Total votes: 27,427 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Lawton in this election.
2023
See also: Pennsylvania state legislative special elections, 2023
General election
Special general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27
Lynda Schlegel Culver defeated Patricia Lawton in the special general election for Pennsylvania State Senate District 27 on January 31, 2023.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lynda Schlegel Culver (R) | 68.7 | 25,002 |
| Patricia Lawton (D) | 31.3 | 11,395 | |
| Total votes: 36,397 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Thomas Anderson (L)
- Israel Cruz (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Patricia Lawton did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2023
Patricia Lawton completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lawton's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Patricia Lawton holds a master's degree in speech-language pathology and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Administration and Leadership studies through Indiana University of PA. She has a 30 year career as a providing services to children, students, and adults in various settings throught the District 27 region. She served as a director of a grant funded graduate program at Bloomsburg University collaborating with the Office of Special Education programs, Pennsylvania Department of Education, and districts and intermediate units throughout eastern Pennsylvania. Through her leadership and budget direction, the program exceeded its goal in the number of students it would support. She has worked in education for over twenty years and is a former union member and leader. Patricia is an active community member serving and leading in various volunteer organizations and is known to be a defender of children and working families.
- I aim to serve the people of my district and not play party politics with the lives of my community members.
- We can build back our mainstreets and provide a living wage and affordable housing.
- I will protect the reproductive rights of women and defend the integrity of elections and the rights of voters.
Protecting women's reproductive rights; bringing the necessary resources to our local communities to address mental health and drug and alcohol addiction; adequate funding in public education to include strengthening our vocational-technical schools; building back Pennsylvania's downtowns and mainstreets; providing the necessary training and funding for our police and first responders; protecting the rights of workers to earn a living wage; access to affordable housing; preserving our environment while we become energy independent and transition to renewable energy resources.
Integrity is key! Also the ability to listen, understand, and empathize with the problems of residents and the willingness to serve others.
To serve residents with integrity and uphold their oath of office while serving the common good.
Leadership is about supporting people to do the work and making progress toward solving issues that benefit the greater good. The governor and state legislature must be able to work together for the good of the people in our state.
We face many challenges, yet they can not be addressed unless we protect our democracy. We must provide a future where residents have access to good paying jobs and affordable housing. Our towns need to build back mainstreets and downtowns to form strong and connected communities. We have a growing epidemic of mental health issues and drug and alcohol addiction in which we need the supports and resources brought to the community level to address these issues appropriately. Pennsylvania must fund public education adequately to include our vocational and technical schools and reform policies that hinder educators from doing their jobs. Our first responders like police officers, fire fighters, and emergency medical professionals require good wages and the resources they need to focus on their missions. Rural areas require the necessary infrastructure like affordable quality internet to gain access to employment and education. Our nation needs to become energy independent while simultaneously moving toward renewable, greener energy to protect the environment. With a declining younger population in much of our areas, we need to create jobs and opportunities for young people willing to stay in our area.
Our constitution set up a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" not a system of lawyers and career polticians. Our founding fathers were not all lawyers nor legislators. Having elected officials with diverse backgrounds and knowledge would only make politics and government stronger and more effective.
In order for our system of government to work and benefit the greater good, we must be able to form working relationships with all members regardless of political party.
We need a fair process of redistricing where independent citizens are commissioned to redistrict with clear rules and guidelines to follow and informed by data. We can not allow politicians alone to control redistricting as it leads to corruption in order to maintain power and not benefit the residents.
Committees that deal with health and human services, education, and professional licensing.
I am interested in serving my community and will look for various opportunities to do so.
Throughout my life and career in Pennsylvania, I have watched folks struggle to keep their land and farms and make a living to take care of their families. I have witnessed the struggles of students in learning, the frustrations of teachers boxed in a system of inadequate funding and poor policies, and our youth strapped with eductional debt. I see hard working people willing to work hard, but lack access to good paying jobs or job training opportunities. We need to build strong communities, downtowns, and provide resources that support a healthy and productive environment for all. There is not one story, it is the culmination of everyone's lived experiences that have brought me to run for office to make a difference.
Decisions about emergency powers should never lead us to a situation where our state government and governor can not respond in a timely and adequate fashion in an emergency, especially when lives are at stake.
Compromise is key to democracy.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on December 28, 2022
