• 2012: When Republican Representative
Edward Buchanan retired and left the District 4 seat open, Kirkbride won the three-way August 21, 2012 Republican Primary with 940 votes (37.1%), and won the November 6, 2012 General election with 3,626 votes (70.5%) against
Constitution Party candidate Bill Motley. • 2014: Kirkbride was unopposed in the August 19, 2014 Republican Primary and won with 2,307 votes. Kirkbride was also unchallenged in the November 4, 2014 General Election, winning with 3,326 votes. • 2016: Kirkbride defeated
Tyler Shockley in the August 16, 2016 Republican Primary, winning with 1,286 votes (59.43%). Subsequently, Kirkbride defeated Joe Michaels of the
Constitution Party in the November 8, 2016 General Election, winning with 3,652 votes (75.50%). • 2018: Kirkbride was unopposed in both the August 21, 2018 Republican Primary and the November 6, 2018 General Election, winning with 2,225 and 3,645 votes respectively. • 2020: Kirkbride lost the August 18, 2020 Republican Primary to
Jeremy Haroldson with 1,391 votes (46.0%), and is thus ineligible for reelection in the upcoming general election and will leave office in 2021. ==References==