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Darin Harbick
Darin Harbick (Republican Party) is a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 12. He assumed office on January 13, 2025. His current term ends on January 11, 2027.
Harbick (Republican Party) ran for election to the Oregon House of Representatives to represent District 12. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Darin Harbick was born in Springfield, Oregon and lives in Blue River, Oregon. Harbick graduated from McKenzie River High School.[1] His career experience includes managing a Safeway grocery store, owning various restaurants and grocery stores in Rainbow, Oregon, and starting Harbick’s Logging and Hauling Inc. Harbick has served on the Mckenzie School District Board of Directors, the Mckenzie Chamber of Commerce, and the Travel Lane Board of Directors. He has also coached girls basketball at the middle school, high school, and college levels.[2]
Elections
2024
See also: Oregon House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Oregon House of Representatives District 12
Darin Harbick defeated Michelle Emmons in the general election for Oregon House of Representatives District 12 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Darin Harbick (R) | 57.7 | 23,256 |
 | Michelle Emmons (D) | 42.2 | 17,012 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 62 | ||
| Total votes: 40,330 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 12
Michelle Emmons advanced from the Democratic primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 12 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Michelle Emmons (Write-in) | 34.6 | 655 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 65.4 | 1,238 | ||
| Total votes: 1,893 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 12
Darin Harbick defeated incumbent Charlie Conrad in the Republican primary for Oregon House of Representatives District 12 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Darin Harbick | 82.5 | 6,709 |
 | Charlie Conrad | 17.2 | 1,397 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 23 | ||
| Total votes: 8,129 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Harbick in this election.
Pledges
Harbick signed the following pledges.
2022
U.S. Senate election
See also: United States Senate election in Oregon, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Oregon
Incumbent Ron Wyden defeated Jo Rae Perkins, Chris Henry, and Dan Pulju in the general election for U.S. Senate Oregon on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Ron Wyden (D / Independent Party) | 55.8 | 1,076,424 |
 | Jo Rae Perkins (R / Constitution Party) | 40.9 | 788,991 | |
 | Chris Henry (Progressive Party) | 1.9 | 36,883 | |
 | Dan Pulju (Pacific Green Party) | 1.2 | 23,454 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,197 | ||
| Total votes: 1,927,949 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Michael Stettler (Constitution Party)
- Bret Westwood (Independent)
- Thomas Verde (Independent)
- John Newton (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Oregon
Incumbent Ron Wyden defeated William Barlow and Brent Thompson in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Oregon on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ron Wyden | 88.8 | 439,665 |
 | William Barlow | 7.1 | 35,025 | |
| Brent Thompson | 3.5 | 17,197 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 3,279 | ||
| Total votes: 495,166 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Oregon
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Oregon on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jo Rae Perkins | 33.0 | 115,701 |
| Darin Harbick | 30.7 | 107,506 | |
 | Samuel Palmer | 12.2 | 42,703 | |
 | Jason Beebe | 11.3 | 39,456 | |
 | Christopher Christensen | 8.1 | 28,433 | |
| Robert Fleming | 1.9 | 6,821 | ||
 | Ibrahim Taher | 1.9 | 6,659 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.9 | 3,024 | ||
| Total votes: 350,303 | |||
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Gubernatorial election
See also: Oregon gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of Oregon
The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Oregon on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tina Kotek (D / Working Families Party) | 47.0 | 917,074 |
 | Christine Drazan (R) | 43.5 | 850,347 | |
 | Betsy Johnson (Independent) | 8.6 | 168,431 | |
 | Donice Smith (Constitution Party) | 0.4 | 8,051 | |
 | R. Leon Noble (L) | 0.4 | 6,867 | |
 | Paul Romero (Constitution Party of Oregon) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,113 | ||
| Total votes: 1,952,883 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Nathalie Paravicini (Pacific Green Party / Progressive Party)
- Tom Cox (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Oregon
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Oregon on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tina Kotek | 56.0 | 275,301 |
 | Tobias Read | 31.7 | 156,017 | |
 | Patrick Starnes | 2.1 | 10,524 | |
 | George Carrillo | 1.9 | 9,365 | |
 | Michael Trimble | 1.0 | 5,000 | |
 | John Sweeney | 0.9 | 4,193 | |
 | Julian Bell | 0.8 | 3,926 | |
 | Wilson Bright | 0.5 | 2,316 | |
 | Dave Stauffer | 0.5 | 2,302 | |
 | Ifeanyichukwu Diru | 0.4 | 1,780 | |
| Keisha Merchant | 0.4 | 1,755 | ||
| Genevieve Wilson | 0.3 | 1,588 | ||
 | Michael Cross | 0.3 | 1,342 | |
| David Beem | 0.3 | 1,308 | ||
 | Peter Hall | 0.2 | 982 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.8 | 13,746 | ||
| Total votes: 491,445 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Peter Winter (D)
- Casey Kulla (D)
- Nicholas Kristof (D)
- Dave Lavinsky (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Oregon
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Oregon on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christine Drazan | 22.5 | 85,255 |
 | Bob Tiernan | 17.5 | 66,089 | |
 | Stan Pulliam | 10.9 | 41,123 | |
 | Bridget Barton | 10.8 | 40,886 | |
 | Bud Pierce | 8.7 | 32,965 | |
 | Marc Thielman | 7.9 | 30,076 | |
 | Kerry McQuisten | 7.6 | 28,727 | |
| Bill Sizemore | 3.5 | 13,261 | ||
 | Jessica Gomez | 2.6 | 9,970 | |
 | Tim McCloud | 1.2 | 4,400 | |
 | Nick Hess | 1.1 | 4,287 | |
 | Court Boice | 1.1 | 4,040 | |
 | Brandon Merritt | 1.0 | 3,615 | |
| Reed Christensen | 0.8 | 3,082 | ||
 | Amber Richardson | 0.5 | 1,924 | |
 | Raymond Baldwin | 0.1 | 459 | |
 | David Burch | 0.1 | 406 | |
| John Presco | 0.0 | 174 | ||
 | Stefan Strek | 0.0 | 171 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.0 | 7,407 | ||
| Total votes: 378,317 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darin Harbick (R)
- John Fosdick III (R)
- Jim Huggins (R)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2022
Darin Harbick completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Harbick's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Concerned the next generation of his family and his fellow Oregonians will not enjoy the same opportunities he and his wife have had is the motivating factor for Darin to run for the United State Senate. The incumbent senior senator who has been in Washington for 40 years is pushing radical out of touch extreme policies that will further ruin Oregon’s natural resources, deny Oregonians their God given rights and push our citizens to greater and greater dependence on government.
- Managing our natural resources, forests & federal lands, in a sustainable, renewable and accessible fashion.
- Supporting the US constitution and amendments, freedom of speech and the second amendment.
- Securing the southern border to stop drug and human trafficking.
-Eliminating vaccine mandates and government overreach.
-Supporting law and order, law enforcement and the rule of law.
-Securing the southern border to stop drug and human trafficking.
-Managing our natural resources, forests & federal lands, in a sustainable, renewable and accessible fashion.
-Supporting the US constitution and amendments, freedom of speech and the second amendment.
-Protecting the lives of the unborn.
-Balancing the federal budget.
-Reducing federal government regulations sending more power to the states.
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Darin Harbick did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Harbick's campaign website stated the following:
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Oregon is blessed with an amazing renewable resource in the form of the world’s most productive forestlands. However, what we have seen is continued, and systemic mismanagement of this incredible resource which has led to catastrophic fires, loss of jobs in rural Oregon, and millions of tons of carbon released into our atmosphere. As Oregon’s next US Senator I will work to provide necessary resources to the US Forest Service to thin the forest, maintain forest roads, extinguish fires fast and provide good paying family wage jobs in the forest.
Solving the immigration crises on the US Southern border We must secure the southern border. That is job #1. If the current administration doesn’t do it, as a member of a new Republican majority in the US Senate beginning in 2023, I will work with my colleagues to get it done. Reforming our immigration system requiring lawful entry is key to the long term health and well being of our economy. With the demographic changes occurring in our country, ensuring a legal and lawful workforce to replace the current generation of retiring Americans is crucial.
Pandemic mandates and constitutional overreach Oregonians have accommodated the rules and mandates coming out of Salem and Washington, DC to slow and ultimately stop the march of the Covid19 pandemic. However, Oregonians have definitely reached their limit when the dictates encroach on personal medical choices and the ability of Oregonians to work and make a living. Vaccine mandates go too far and must be opposed. As your next US Senator, I will use every tool at my disposal to oppose unconstitutional mandates that violate your personal and family choices regarding vaccines.
Continued Federal Spending endangers America’s future Emergency spending during the early days of the pandemic may have been necessary in light of the government-created recession and job losses. However, the economy has largely recovered, as demonstrated by low unemployment numbers. I know this personally with jobs going unfilled in my own businesses. We must stop the runaway spending at the federal level.
Support for a Balanced Budget Amendment Continued deficit spending has created serious economic consequences for our children and grandchildren, which is why I support passing a Balanced Budget Amendment with a gradual path toward federal budget stability and fiscal sanity.
Support for the 2nd Amendment We do not need additional state or federal laws or regulations for firearms.[3] |
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| —Darin Harbick's campaign website (2022)[4] | ||
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ LinkedIn, " Darin Harbick," accessed March 30, 2022
- ↑ Darin Harbick’s campaign website, "About Darin," accessed March 30, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Darin Harbick's campaign website, “Issues,” accessed March 28, 2022
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