Matthew Kerner
Matthew Kerner (Democratic Party) ran for election to the West Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 65. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Elections
2024
See also: West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2024
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65
Incumbent Carl Martin defeated Matthew Kerner in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Carl Martin (R) | 77.2 | 5,321 |
| Matthew Kerner (D) | 22.8 | 1,574 | ||
| Total votes: 6,895 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65
Matthew Kerner advanced from the Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Matthew Kerner | 100.0 | 625 | |
| Total votes: 625 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65
Incumbent Carl Martin advanced from the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carl Martin | 100.0 | 2,658 |
| Total votes: 2,658 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Kerner in this election.
2022
See also: West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2022
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65
Incumbent Carl Martin defeated Matthew Kerner in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carl Martin (R) | 97.7 | 3,720 |
| Matthew Kerner (Independent) (Write-in) | 2.3 | 86 | ||
| Total votes: 3,806 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65
Incumbent Carl Martin advanced from the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 65 on May 10, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carl Martin | 100.0 | 1,745 |
| Total votes: 1,745 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 45
Carl Martin defeated Matthew Kerner in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 45 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carl Martin (R) | 67.8 | 3,999 |
| Matthew Kerner (D) | 32.2 | 1,902 | ||
| Total votes: 5,901 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 45
Matthew Kerner advanced from the Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 45 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Matthew Kerner | |
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 45
Carl Martin defeated Bob Kincaid in the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 45 on May 8, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Carl Martin | 52.6 | 1,339 |
| Bob Kincaid | 47.4 | 1,209 | ||
| Total votes: 2,548 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Matthew Kerner did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Matthew Kerner did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia survey responses
- See also: Ballotpedia's candidate surveys
Matthew A Kerner participated in Ballotpedia's candidate survey on April 6, 2018. The survey questions appear in bold, and Matthew A Kerner's responses follow below.[1]
What would be your top three priorities, if elected?
| “ | 1) Substance abuse recovery 2) Pulling West Virginia out of poverty |
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What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?
| “ | Employing effective long term recovery strategies to the Addiction crisis. I am in long term recovery from a substance abuse dissorder and work in the recovery field, it is extremely rare for me to go more than a week without someone I know dying from the disease of addiction. Addiction impacts every facet of life in West Virginia from unemployability in our workforce to thousands of children in foster care with about 800 of them placed out of state. We have an unknown number of grandparents who have been forced back into parenthood because of the unavailability of parents due to impact of addiction. I have personal experience guiding people out of addiction and if elected will me the most experienced person in our legislature on the topic.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[3]
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Ballotpedia also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Matthew A Kerner answered the following:
What is something that has been a struggle in your life?
| “ | When my step father died at 41 years old after an extended illness it threw my entire family into poverty. We were fortunate that we had experienced a normal middle class life before and were eventually able to recover although permanent recovery from poverty was hampered in my case my also having to overcome a substance abuse problem. I am grateful that I can use my personal experience to help others overcome these obstacles.[3] | ” |
| “ | West Virginia leads the nation by far in per capita deaths from drug overdose. We are also one of the poorest states. These two issues are intertwined and must be addressed simultaneously.[3] | ” |
| “ | Redistricting should be done in as non political a way as possible to avoid gerrymandering by any party.[3] | ” |
| “ | In addiction to the house of delegates, I am also running for my county and state Democtratic executive committees.[3] | ” |
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
- ↑ Ballotpedia's candidate survey, "Matthew A Kerner's responses," April 6, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
