Kyle Kirkland
Kyle Kirkland (Republican Party) ran in a special election to the U.S. House to represent California's 20th Congressional District. He lost in the special primary on March 19, 2024.
Kirkland also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 20th Congressional District. He lost in the primary on March 5, 2024.
Kirkland completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kyle Kirkland was born in Virginia and lives in California. He earned an A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1984 and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University in 1988. Kirkland's career experience includes working as a business owner; Kirkland founded an investment banking firm in 1994. From 1993 to 2011, Kirkland was chairman of Steinway Musical Instruments. Kirkland also served as president of the California Gaming Association. As of 2024, Kirkland was the director and board chair of the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.[1]
Elections
2024
Regular
See also: California's 20th Congressional District election, 2024
California's 20th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House California District 20
Incumbent Vince Fong defeated Mike Boudreaux (Unofficially withdrew) in the general election for U.S. House California District 20 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Vince Fong (R) | 65.1 | 187,862 |
 | Mike Boudreaux (R) (Unofficially withdrew) | 34.9 | 100,926 | |
| Total votes: 288,788 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 20
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House California District 20 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Vince Fong (R) | 41.9 | 66,160 |
| ✔ | | Mike Boudreaux (R) | 24.0 | 37,883 |
 | Marisa Wood (D) | 21.2 | 33,509 | |
 | Kyle Kirkland (R) | 4.1 | 6,429 | |
 | Andy Morales (D) | 2.8 | 4,381 | |
 | Stan Ellis (R) | 2.1 | 3,252 | |
 | David Giglio (R) (Unofficially withdrew) | 1.4 | 2,224 | |
 | Ben Dewell (No party preference) | 1.0 | 1,509 | |
 | Matt Stoll (R) | 0.7 | 1,131 | |
| Kelly Kulikoff (R) | 0.5 | 724 | ||
 | T.J. Esposito (No party preference) | 0.3 | 541 | |
 | James Cardoza (No party preference) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 9 | |
| Total votes: 157,752 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Matthew Piatt (R)
- Nathaniel Bruce (R)
- Johnathon Burrows (D)
Endorsements
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Special
See also: California's 20th Congressional District special election, 2024
General election
Special general election for U.S. House California District 20
Vince Fong defeated Mike Boudreaux in the special general election for U.S. House California District 20 on May 21, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Vince Fong (R) | 60.6 | 50,643 |
| Mike Boudreaux (R) | 39.4 | 32,952 | |
| Total votes: 83,595 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for U.S. House California District 20
The following candidates ran in the special primary for U.S. House California District 20 on March 19, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Vince Fong (R) | 42.3 | 51,194 |
| ✔ | | Mike Boudreaux (R) | 25.8 | 31,202 |
| Marisa Wood (D) | 22.6 | 27,337 | |
| Kyle Kirkland (R) | 4.9 | 5,941 | |
 | Harmesh Kumar (D) | 2.4 | 2,885 | |
| Ben Dewell (No party preference) | 0.9 | 1,074 | |
| David Fluhart (No party preference) | 0.7 | 878 | ||
| James Cardoza (No party preference) | 0.2 | 298 | |
 | Anna Zoë Cohen (R) | 0.2 | 289 | |
| Total votes: 121,098 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Regular
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Kyle Kirkland completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kirkland'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 was born in Virginia (my parents were a teacher and a banker), grew up in Maine and have lived in California for almost 40 years, the last 15 of which were spent in the Central Valley. I earned an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1984 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1988.
I started my career in the finance industry, providing capital and financial help to growing companies. In 1993, my partner and I bought a small musical instrument company and grew it into Steinway Musical Instruments – the largest manufacturer of musical instruments in the United States. We took the company public in 1996, and I served as its chairman for 17 years.
Today, I am the owner/operator of Club One Casino in Fresno, California and president of the California Gaming Association, which represents our $5.6 billion industry statewide. I also serve as a director and board chair for the Fresno Chaffee Zoo as well as the founder and president of Kirkland Foundation, a leading animal rescue foundation.
- I’m believe in solutions, not stand-offs. I'm not a career politician. I'm a business person who has built a career solving problems, building consensus with disparate groups and delivering results for those who trust in me. I believe the voters of the 20th District deserve solutions to the border chaos, high cost of living and unanswered crime, not more political grandstanding.
- The economy. As a self-made businessman, I'm the only candidate that understands how our economy works and how powerful it is for our way of life. I sign the front of paychecks, have made both products and payrolls, suffered the shutdown of my industry during COVID and have dealt with frivolous litigation and ill-conceived government regulations. I believe a healthy market economy with limited regulation is the key to reducing the high cost of living of housing, food, energy, health-care and other essential services.
- Border security and crime. We need to secure our borders and return to the enforcement of immigration law. No other country allows the free-for-all policies at their borders, and we shouldn’t tolerate them either. Furthermore, the soft-on-crime, no consequences policies of the Biden and Newsom Administrations have resulted in rampart property crime, jeopardizing our way of life and increasing our cost of living.
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Special
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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