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Matthew Heines
Matthew Heines (Trump Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Washington's 1st Congressional District. He lost in the primary on August 6, 2024.
Biography
Heines received a degree in history from Washington State University and a master's degree in secondary education from the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He was a teacher from 1993 to 2013 and also started working as an author in 2005. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the American Legion. He was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division from 1982 to 1986.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Washington's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
Washington's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 top-two primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 1
Incumbent Suzan DelBene defeated Jeb Brewer in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzan DelBene (D) | 63.0 | 227,213 |
![]() | Jeb Brewer (R) ![]() | 36.7 | 132,538 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 907 |
Total votes: 360,658 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 1
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 1 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzan DelBene (D) | 63.1 | 109,456 |
✔ | ![]() | Jeb Brewer (R) ![]() | 10.2 | 17,675 |
![]() | Orion Webster (R) ![]() | 9.7 | 16,770 | |
![]() | Mary Silva (R) ![]() | 6.5 | 11,339 | |
![]() | Matthew Heines (Trump Republican Party) | 6.2 | 10,815 | |
![]() | Derek Chartrand (Calm Rational GOP Party) | 4.0 | 6,980 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 392 |
Total votes: 173,427 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Lyden (D)
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Heines in this election.
2022
See also: Washington's 1st Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 1
Incumbent Suzan DelBene defeated Vincent Cavaleri in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzan DelBene (D) | 63.5 | 181,992 |
![]() | Vincent Cavaleri (R) ![]() | 36.4 | 104,329 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 363 |
Total votes: 286,684 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 1
Incumbent Suzan DelBene and Vincent Cavaleri defeated Matthew Heines, Derek Chartrand, and Tom Spears in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzan DelBene (D) | 61.9 | 102,857 |
✔ | ![]() | Vincent Cavaleri (R) ![]() | 19.9 | 32,998 |
![]() | Matthew Heines (R) ![]() | 8.2 | 13,634 | |
![]() | Derek Chartrand (R) ![]() | 6.9 | 11,536 | |
Tom Spears (Independent) | 2.9 | 4,840 | ||
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 168 |
Total votes: 166,033 | ||||
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2020
See also: Washington's 1st Congressional District election, 2020
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 1
Incumbent Suzan DelBene defeated Jeffrey Beeler in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 1 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzan DelBene (D) | 58.6 | 249,944 |
![]() | Jeffrey Beeler (R) | 41.3 | 176,407 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 511 |
Total votes: 426,862 | ||||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 1
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 1 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Suzan DelBene (D) | 55.4 | 147,666 |
✔ | ![]() | Jeffrey Beeler (R) | 32.1 | 85,655 |
![]() | Derek Chartrand (R) | 5.9 | 15,777 | |
![]() | Justin Smoak (Unaffiliated) ![]() | 2.9 | 7,701 | |
Steven Skelton (L) | 2.7 | 7,286 | ||
![]() | Matthew Heines (Unaffiliated) ![]() | 0.5 | 1,335 | |
Robert Mair (Unaffiliated) | 0.3 | 812 | ||
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 340 |
Total votes: 266,572 | ||||
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2018
General election
Incumbent Maria Cantwell defeated Susan Hutchison in the general election for U.S. Senate Washington on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for U.S. Senate Washington
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Maria Cantwell (D) | 58.4 | 1,803,364 |
![]() | Susan Hutchison (R) | 41.6 | 1,282,804 |
Total votes: 3,086,168 | ||||
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Top-two primary
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. Senate Washington on August 7, 2018.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Washington
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Maria Cantwell (D) | 54.7 | 929,961 |
✔ | ![]() | Susan Hutchison (R) | 24.3 | 413,317 |
![]() | Keith Swank (R) ![]() | 2.3 | 39,818 | |
![]() | Joseph Gibson (R) | 2.3 | 38,676 | |
![]() | Clint Tannehill (D) | 2.1 | 35,770 | |
David R. Bryant (R) | 2.0 | 33,962 | ||
![]() | Arthur Coday Jr. (R) | 1.8 | 30,654 | |
![]() | Jennifer Ferguson (Independent) | 1.5 | 25,224 | |
Tim Owen (R) | 1.4 | 23,167 | ||
![]() | Matt Hawkins (R) ![]() | 0.8 | 13,324 | |
![]() | Don Rivers (D) ![]() | 0.7 | 12,634 | |
![]() | Mike Luke (L) | 0.7 | 12,302 | |
Glen Stockwell (R) | 0.7 | 11,611 | ||
![]() | Thor Amundson (Independent) | 0.6 | 9,393 | |
![]() | Mohammad Said (D) | 0.5 | 8,649 | |
![]() | Matthew Heines (R) | 0.5 | 7,737 | |
![]() | Steve Hoffman (Freedom Socialist Party) | 0.4 | 7,390 | |
![]() | GoodSpaceGuy (R) | 0.4 | 7,057 | |
![]() | John Orlinski (R) | 0.4 | 6,905 | |
David Lee Strider (Independent) ![]() | 0.4 | 6,821 | ||
![]() | Roque De La Fuente (R) | 0.3 | 5,724 | |
![]() | James Robert Deal (G) | 0.2 | 3,849 | |
Sam Wright (The Human Rights Party) | 0.2 | 3,761 | ||
![]() | Brad Chase (FDFR Party) | 0.2 | 2,655 | |
George Kalberer (D) | 0.1 | 2,448 | ||
![]() | Charlie Jackson (Independent) | 0.1 | 2,411 | |
RC Smith (R) | 0.1 | 2,238 | ||
![]() | Jon Butler (Independent) | 0.1 | 2,016 | |
![]() | Alex Tsimerman (Standup-America Party) | 0.1 | 1,366 |
Total votes: 1,700,840 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Clay Johnson (Independent)
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Matthew Heines did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Heines’ campaign website stated the following:
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THE REAL DEAL 2024 1. Mandate Voter ID 2. Put a Ceiling On The US Debt 3. Make it a Felony to Cross the US border Illegally enforceable With Deadly Force 4. Freeze All Immigration Until Every Illegal is Returned Home 5. Assign Homeland Security to Round Up And Deport All Illegal Aliens 6. Mandatory Sentencing and Seizure for Hiring Illegal Aliens 7. investigate everyone associated with the Biden Administration 8. Abolish the CIA & FBI in their Present Forms 9. Allow Parents Access to School Choice 10. Stop All Funding For Racist Government Indoctrination[2] |
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—Matthew Heines’ campaign website (2024)[3] |
2022
Matthew Heines completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Heines' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- If we don't fix our schools and offer funding to religious and charter schools, we have about two decades before we cease to exist.
- If we don't stop immigration, well, just watch the news.
- If we don't fix our elections, we will continue to suffer at the whims of the criminally deranged.
Really. Why's it a Democrat car?
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2020
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Matthew Heines completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Heines' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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|- If we do not give our young people something to hope for and provide the best education systems, our freedom will not surive.
- Democrats and Republicans are employees of corporations and as such will never look out for the interest of the American people.
- All work, from cleaning toilets to studying quantum fields is honorable, valued and needed. All work then, deserves a living, honorable wage.
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2018
Heines answered the question, "What is your political philosophy?" on Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form. Below is his response:
“ | Enough is enough. I swore an oath to defend the Constitution. I cannot sit by and watch evil people destroy us and reduce us all to fearful debt slaves with no access to redress of a corrupt government who hates its own citizens. I have twelve ways to fix America. If you support these ideas, support me. We need to show America Washington State means business. I need a landslide in August and in November. If I don't win, we all lose.
12 Item Agenda
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—Matthew Heines[1] |
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes