Candidate · November 3, 2026
Ken Krawchuk
On the ballot for Governor · Pennsylvania
- issues with public statements
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§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | Governor · Pennsylvania1 |
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| Party on the ballot | Libertarian1, |
| Status | Challenger |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Ken Krawchuk was born and raised in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia and has lived in Abington since 1981.3 He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from St. Joseph's University, founded the information technology consulting firm Amendment 16 Ltd., and has worked as a computer programmer since 1970.3 He hosted the weekly talk radio show The Pennsylvania Project on WWDB in Philadelphia from 2019 to 2024.3 He was the Libertarian candidate for governor in 1998, 2002 and 2018, and chaired the Libertarian Party of Pennsylvania from 2002 to 2004.3
Why they say they're running
His campaign website says he is running with a plan to improve education by privatizing public schools and to cut taxes, including the property tax.4
Websites and accounts
- Campaign websitekenk4pa.com4
- Facebookfacebook.com/KenK4Pa4
- X (Twitter)twitter.com/kenk4pa4
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Education
His campaign website proposes privatizing Pennsylvania's public schools by giving every student an education savings account of about $11,500 a year from existing state funding, which parents could use at any school.4,
- Make them available to every family
- Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
- No public money for private school or homeschooling costs
Taxes and Budget
His campaign website says that privatizing the schools would allow school property taxes, which it says make up the bulk of property taxes, to be eliminated.4,
His campaign website says he would propose budgets that eliminate Pennsylvania's personal income tax over four years.6
- Add or raise taxes on the highest incomes (for example, a tax on income over $1 million)
- Keep current rates
- Cut rates or move to a single flat rate
- Phase out the state income tax
Elections and Government Reform
His campaign website calls for eliminating mail-in ballots in favor of in-person voting.7
His campaign website calls for requiring voters to show ID and limiting voting to U.S. citizens.7
His campaign website calls for ending gerrymandering by drawing districts with a method it calls precinct-preserving splitline districting.7
His campaign website calls for banning out-of-state political contributions.7
Crime, Policing and Prisons
His campaign website calls for immediately decriminalizing marijuana and other drugs, treating them like alcohol, and pardoning all nonviolent drug offenders.8
- Keep recreational use against the law
- Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
- Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
- Make it legal for adults to buy and use
Abortion and Reproductive Health
His campaign website proposes what it calls pre-natal adoption, under which a woman who does not want her pregnancy would first sign a legal document giving up the unborn child, and adoptive parents could ask, through her doctor, that she carry the pregnancy to term or long enough for a safe early delivery, with the decision remaining hers.9
Health Care
His campaign website opposes a proposed state Department of Health regulation that it says would allow officials to enter homes, schools and health care facilities without a warrant as part of disease-control measures.10
Energy and Climate
His campaign website calls for an immediate, indefinite moratorium on new data centers until Pennsylvania's planning code and local ordinances are updated, so that each town can decide whether to allow them.11
- Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
- Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
- Pause or limit new data centers
§4Money
Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left.
Candidates for governor file campaign-finance reports with the state, not the FEC, so this guide doesn't include their fundraising. Search the state's reports: Campaign finance reports search — Pennsylvania Department of State.12