Stanley Roach

Stanley Roach: Idaho House District 19, Seat B

Stanley Roach is the Republican nominee for Idaho House District 19, Seat B, on the November 3, 2026 general election ballot. He will face Democratic incumbent Chris Mathias. Roach ran unopposed in the May 19, 2026 Republican primary and received 2,955 votes, or 100 percent of ballots cast, according to certified results from the Idaho Secretary of State.

Survey non-response

Voters looking for a side-by-side comparison in this race will not find one from the local press. CBS2/FOX9 surveyed every candidate in legislative races ahead of the general election, giving each a week to respond. Roach did not respond. Neither did Mathias, the incumbent, which leaves both candidates' positions untested by independent questions this cycle.

What exists on Roach instead is a self-reported record. He has no campaign website. His fullest public descriptions come from candidate pages maintained by the Idaho Republican Party and the Ada County Republican Party, both of which state that Roach personally confirmed the accuracy of the content.

Background

Roach has never held elected public office. His political experience is in Republican Party roles: he has been an Ada County Republican Central Committee precinct committeeman for Precinct #1919 since 2022, he is treasurer of the Legislative District 19 Republican Central Committee, and he served as caucus captain for the 2024 Republican primary. These are unpaid party positions, not public offices.

His professional career, per his own party-page biographies, began early. He started his first company at age 21 and sold it in 1977. He then spent most of his career as a marketing and sales executive in technology products and services, working on United States and international sales. He later owned SalesMark Solutions, a business consultancy, and says he created the first networked Macintosh computer lab and taught classes at Linn-Benton Community College.

While living in Bend, Oregon, he was a co-founder and president of the Film Oregon Alliance, a film commission that worked to bring film and television production to central Oregon. He is also a singer and songwriter, musician, and stage and film actor. Today he works as a property manager and owns a historic rental property in Boise's North End, where he and his wife live alongside their tenants.

Roach and his wife, Jan, have been married since 1973. They have two adult children, Steven and Shana, and three grandchildren, Abram, Jocelyn, and Dean. The family moved to Boise in 2017 from Bend, Oregon, to be near their daughter and grandson. In his Ada County GOP questionnaire, Roach says he has been a registered Republican since 1980. Before that, he writes, he was a registered Democrat in California who opposed the Vietnam War and voted for George McGovern in 1972.

Where he stands

Roach's stated positions come from his answers to the Ada County GOP questionnaire and Idaho GOP platform survey, both confirmed by the candidate.

His top priority is taxes. He wants to reduce or eliminate property taxes, which he argues fall hardest on retirees and people on fixed incomes, and he supports reducing capital gains taxes for small investors. He also wants to shrink state government, eliminating what he describes as unnecessary bureaucracies, and he supports waste-and-fraud efforts modeled on the federal DOGE initiative.

On legislative process, Roach opposes multi-subject bills. A bill should stand on its own merits, he writes, rather than serving as a vehicle for deal-making.

He describes himself as socially conservative. His questionnaire states he opposes DEI programs, transgender athletes competing in women's sports, and policies allowing facility sharing between the sexes. On religious liberty, his platform survey says religious freedom should not extend to religious practices he considers incompatible with American culture, citing Sharia law as his example. On abortion, his platform response states that exceptions should be allowed when the health and well-being of the mother is at risk.

One position stands out from his party's usual line on marijuana. Roach writes that he is open to legalizing medical marijuana, while opposing recreational use. He argues Idahoans deserve a vote on access to a medicine that 40 other states allow, and he describes medical marijuana as safer and cheaper than opioids for chronic pain.

Campaign finance

Roach's campaign has reported no money. According to his candidate profile on the Idaho Secretary of State's Sunshine portal, his filings show $0.00 in every category: total contributions, total loans, total expenditures, cash balance, and outstanding debt, through his last filed report. He has kept up with his paperwork. The portal lists monthly disclosure filings from February through August 2026, all filed on time, all reporting zero activity. He is running a campaign with no contributions and no spending on the record so far.

Sources

• 2026 general election survey: State Representative District 19B, CBS2/FOX9
• Stanley Roach candidate page, Idaho Republican Party
• Stanley Roach candidate page, Ada County Republican Party
• May 19, 2026 primary election official results, Idaho Secretary of State
• Stanley Dean Roach candidate profile, Sunshine Financial Disclosure, Idaho Secretary of State