Diane Market Gaston
Diane Market Gaston (Democratic Party) ran for election to the West Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 78. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Market Gaston completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Diane Market Gaston earned an associate degree from the Virginia Western Community College, a bachelor's degree from Ferrum College, and a graduate degree from West Virginia University. Her career experience includes working in social work through direct practice, teaching, and management. She has been affiliated with Womens Giving Circle, Rotary, and NASW.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2024
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 78
Incumbent Eugene Chiarelli defeated Diane Market Gaston in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 78 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Eugene Chiarelli (R) | 55.7 | 4,641 |
Diane Market Gaston (D)  | 44.3 | 3,694 | ||
| Total votes: 8,335 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 78
Diane Market Gaston advanced from the Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 78 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Diane Market Gaston | 100.0 | 1,226 | |
| Total votes: 1,226 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 78
Incumbent Eugene Chiarelli advanced from the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 78 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Eugene Chiarelli | 100.0 | 1,603 |
| Total votes: 1,603 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Market Gaston in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Diane Market Gaston completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Market Gaston's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My career in Social Work took me down many paths. I worked in Mental Health Centers, hospitals and emergency departments. My main and primary focus was in the field of addiction. I was with Chestnut Ridge Hospital and the Department of Behavior Medicine and Psychiatry in direct practice, teaching, and managing a department.
I am a widow. I have a daughter Samantha, her husband Dave, my two grandchildren Michael 9 and Lillian 7 who all live in Morgantown. My son Ben and his wife Keshia also live in Morgantown. We live on a small farm in the 78th district with horses, a donkey, (Judy Marie)cats, dogs, and whatever strays show up.
I am devoted to my family, friends , god children and women in my circle. I am passionate about West Virginia and all of its people.- Let’s return to our core West Virginia values. Our Appalachian culture holds dear our independence, self reliance, our resiliency, love of the land-which is our sense of place, our strong connection to family and neighbors. And with that comes our respect for one another and tolerance to each persons and families decision to do what is right for them. And we expect that respect to be returned. We have strayed from these values as our current government has over reached into our personal and family lives.
- Our legislative body has failed in meeting the needs of the people. They failed to address our incarceration crisis. They failed to fund the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) waiver, leaving the most vulnerable of our population with little to no assistance. More than 200K West Virginians lost Medicaid or Chip. They did not address our child care issues. Our Foster Care crisis. We have to do better. We have lost population and not assisting our most vulnerable of citizens, we will remain at the bottom of our 50 states.
- I fiercely believe in giving people a leg up. We give them assistance, help them up, and they do the work. We need to supplement our working citizens and parents. When they are working but not making a living wage, we assist with child care vouchers. We assist with health insurance. We assist with nutrition (SNAP) This all or nothing, black and white thinking does nothing in terms of assisting folks. It is not realistic, and our people are hurt. Our citizens leave the state. We continue to rank at the bottom of all states.We have to do better
Education/ teachers supported
Support of the working citizens/support of Unions
Addiction services
Child welfare services
Roads
Small business
Marginalized folks
Dr Rolly Sullivan. He focused his career in the field of addictions. He began an inpatient addiction Program at Chestnut Ridge Hospital. He was curious, thoughtful, and listened to the suffering addict ,putting all of his acquired knowledge into action. He would share ,teach, and assist any and all students or cohorts in learning the invaluable aspects of the disease of addiction.
Dolly Parton I admire her ability to use laughter to connect people. She has an uncanny ability to touch people across all socioeconomic barriers, and people from diverse backgrounds to find compassion and common ground.
Creating a quality educational system so new and small businesses are attracted to this State because of the good quality of life.
And we need seasoned legislators to assist and mentor the new incoming class. Thus learning the processes.
We currently live in a dichotomous world where people are stuck to one thing, one way, their way. That is not how Democracy works.
Teachers
Economic Development and Tourism
Health and Human Resources
Senior,Children, and Family Issues
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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 April 19, 2024
