Ken Ashby

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Ken Ashby (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 30th Congressional District. He was disqualified from the general election scheduled on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Ken Ashby was born in Kentucky. Ashby earned degrees in teaching and engineering. His career experience includes working in teaching and engineering.^[1]

Elections

2024

Texas' 30th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 30

Incumbent Jasmine Crockett defeated Jrmar Jefferson in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 30 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Jasmine Crockett (D)	86.1	139,115
	Jrmar Jefferson (L)	13.9	22,494

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source	Total votes: 161,609
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Ken Ashby (L)
Jrmar Jefferson (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 30

Incumbent Jasmine Crockett defeated Jarred Davis in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 30 on March 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Jasmine Crockett	91.5	43,059
	Jarred Davis	8.5	3,982

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 47,041
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Jrmar Jefferson (D)

Republican primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Angeigh Roc'ellerpitts (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 30

Ken Ashby advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 30 on March 23, 2024.

		Candidate
✔		Ken Ashby (L)

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source
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Endorsements

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Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Ashby in this election.

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 33

Incumbent Marc Veasey defeated Patrick Gillespie and Ken Ashby in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 33 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Marc Veasey (D)	72.0	82,081
	Patrick Gillespie (R)	25.6	29,203
	Ken Ashby (L)	2.4	2,746

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 114,030
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 33

Incumbent Marc Veasey defeated Carlos Quintanilla in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 33 on March 1, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Marc Veasey	69.5	16,806
	Carlos Quintanilla	30.5	7,373

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 24,179
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 33

Patrick Gillespie defeated Robert MacGlaflin in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 33 on March 1, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Patrick Gillespie	63.5	5,709
	Robert MacGlaflin	36.5	3,284

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 8,993
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 33

Ken Ashby advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 33 on March 19, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Ken Ashby (L)

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source
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2020

Texas' 32nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)

Texas' 32nd Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 32

Incumbent Colin Allred defeated Genevieve Collins, Christy Mowrey, and Jason Sigmon in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 32 on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Colin Allred (D)	51.9	178,542
	Genevieve Collins (R)	45.9	157,867
	Christy Mowrey (L)	1.4	4,946
	Jason Sigmon (Independent)	0.7	2,332

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 343,687
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 32

Incumbent Colin Allred advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 32 on March 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Colin Allred	100.0	72,761

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 72,761
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 32

Genevieve Collins defeated Floyd McLendon Jr., Jon Hollis, Jeff Tokar, and Mark Sackett in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 32 on March 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Genevieve Collins	52.9	22,908
	Floyd McLendon Jr.	33.9	14,699
	Jon Hollis	4.5	1,945
	Jeff Tokar	4.4	1,892
	Mark Sackett	4.3	1,880

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 43,324
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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 32

Christy Mowrey defeated Ken Ashby in the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 32 on March 21, 2020.

		Candidate
		Ken Ashby (L)
✔		Christy Mowrey (L)

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2018

See also: Texas' 4th Congressional District election, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 4

Incumbent John Ratcliffe defeated Catherine Krantz and Ken Ashby in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 4 on November 6, 2018.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	John Ratcliffe (R)	75.7	188,667
	Catherine Krantz (D)	23.0	57,400
	Ken Ashby (L)	1.3	3,178

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 249,245
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 4

Catherine Krantz defeated Lander Bethel in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 4 on March 6, 2018.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Catherine Krantz	68.6	8,840
	Lander Bethel	31.4	4,048

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 12,888
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 4

Incumbent John Ratcliffe defeated John Cooper in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 4 on March 6, 2018.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	John Ratcliffe	85.4	61,902
	John Cooper	14.6	10,560

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 72,462
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2016

See also: Texas' 5th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Jeb Hensarling (R) defeated Ken Ashby (L) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Hensarling also faced no challenger in the Republican primary on March 1, 2016.^[2]^[3]

**U.S. House, Texas District 5 General Election, 2016**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Jeb Hensarling Incumbent	80.6%	155,469
	Libertarian	Ken Ashby	19.4%	37,406
Total Votes				192,875
Source: Texas Secretary of State

2014

See also: Texas' 5th Congressional District elections, 2014

Ashby ran in the 2014 election for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 5th District. Ashby won the Libertarian Party nomination at the state convention in April 2014.^[4] He was defeated by incumbent Jeb Hensarling (R) in the general election on November 4, 2014.^[5]

**U.S. House, Texas District 5 General Election, 2014**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Jeb Hensarling Incumbent	85.4%	88,998
	Libertarian	Ken Ashby	14.6%	15,264
Total Votes				104,262
Source: Texas Secretary of State

2012

See also: Texas' 5th Congressional District elections, 2012

Ashby ran in the 2012 election for the U.S. House to represent Texas' 5th District. He ran as a Libertarian candidate. He ran against Linda Mrosko (D) and incumbent Jeb Hensarling (R) in the general election on November 6, 2012.^[6]

**U.S. House, Texas District 5 General Election, 2012**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Jeb Hensarling Incumbent	64.4%	134,091
	Democratic	Linda S. Mrosko	33.2%	69,178
	Libertarian	Ken Ashby	2.4%	4,961
Total Votes				208,230
Source: Texas Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election"

Campaign themes

2024

2014

Ashby's campaign website listed the following issues:^[7]

No more bailouts

Excerpt: "Republicans and Democrats keep interfering in our economy, making taxpayers pay when big businesses make bad decisions. That just encourages them to keep acting stupid. The government should stop picking winners and losers."

End foreign wars

Excerpt: "Republicans used to say they opposed nation-building, but they have gotten us involved in lots of nation-building. Democrats pretended that they would end the wars, but they have only prolonged them."

End the war on drugs

Excerpt: "The war on drugs has been expensive and destructive. The government has thrown people in prison who never hurt anyone, and has also created huge violent black markets."

Shut down federal departments

Excerpt: "We need to shut down federal departments like Education, Commerce, Energy, Homeland Security, and others. Republicans sometimes claim they want to reduce these departments, but they're lying. Over the last twelve years, Republicans have frequently voted for massive increases in these departments"

No more farm subsidies

Excerpt: "Politicians from agricultural states use farm subsidies to buy votes. Farmers don't need subsidies, and most of the benefits go to huge agribusinesses. Let's reduce the burden on taxpayers by ending farm subsidies. "

Personal

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Ashby and his wife, Linda, live in Dallas, Texas.^[1]

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Footnotes

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Texas' current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

John Cornyn (R)

Ted Cruz (R)

Representatives

District 1

Nathaniel Moran (R)

District 2

Daniel Crenshaw (R)

District 3

Keith Self (R)

District 4

Pat Fallon (R)

District 5

Lance Gooden (R)

District 6

Jake Ellzey (R)

District 7

Lizzie Fletcher (D)

District 8

Morgan Luttrell (R)

District 9

Al Green (D)

District 10

Michael McCaul (R)

District 11

August Pfluger (R)

District 12

Kay Granger (R)

District 13

Ronny Jackson (R)

District 14

Randy Weber (R)

District 15

Monica De La Cruz (R)

District 16

Veronica Escobar (D)

District 17

Pete Sessions (R)

District 18

Erica Carter (D)

District 19

Jodey Arrington (R)

District 20

Joaquin Castro (D)

District 21

Chip Roy (R)

District 22

Troy Nehls (R)

District 23

Tony Gonzales (R)

District 24

Beth Van Duyne (R)

District 25

Roger Williams (R)

District 26

Michael Burgess (R)

District 27

Michael Cloud (R)

District 28

Henry Cuellar (D)

District 29

Sylvia Garcia (D)

District 30

Jasmine Crockett (D)

District 31

John Carter (R)

District 32

Colin Allred (D)

District 33

Marc Veasey (D)

District 34

Vicente Gonzalez (D)

District 35

Greg Casar (D)

District 36

Brian Babin (R)

District 37

Lloyd Doggett (D)

District 38

Wesley Hunt (R)

Republican Party (27)

Democratic Party (13)

[bio-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Campaign website, "About," accessed January 17, 2014

[2] Texas Secretary of State, "2016 March Primary Election Candidate Filings by County," accessed December 15, 2015

[primaryresults16-3] The New York Times, "Texas Primary Results," March 1, 2016

[4] The Libertarian Party of Texas, "2014 Federal Candidates," accessed May 8, 2014

[huffpost14-5] The Huffington Post, "Election 2014," November 4, 2014

[6] Texas Libertarian Party, "Candidate list," accessed June 10, 2012 (dead link)

[7] Campaign website, "Issues," accessed January 17, 2014

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Ken Ashby

Biography

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 30

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 30

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 30

Endorsements

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 33

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 33

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 33

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 33

2020

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 32

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 32

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 32

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 32

2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Texas District 4

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 4

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 4

2016

2014

2012

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2024

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2022

2020

2014

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