2022 Michigan Senate election

2022 Michigan Senate election

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38 seats in the Michigan Senate
20 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Jim Ananich
(term-limited)
Mike Shirkey
(term-limited)
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since January 14, 2015 January 9, 2019
Leader's seat 27th district 16th district
Seats before 16 22
Seats after 20 18
Seat change Increase4 Decrease4
Popular vote 2,183,727 2,111,775
Percentage 50.41% 48.75%
Swing Increase0.16% Increase0.71%

Results:
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold
Vote share:
     50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%
     40–50%      50–60%      60–70%

Majority Leader before election

Mike Shirkey
Republican

Elected Majority Leader

Winnie Brinks
Democratic

The Michigan Senate election of 2022 occurred on November 8, 2022, to elect all 38 members to the Michigan Senate. The election coincided with elections for all of Michigan's constitutional offices; governor, attorney general, secretary of state and all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives. Seats in the Michigan Senate were last elected in 2018.

Democrats gained four seats, giving them a majority of 20 out of 38 seats and winning control of the chamber for the first time since 1984.[1] Simultaneously with Democrats gains in the state house, winning control of that chamber for the first time since 2008, and Governor Gretchen Whitmer winning re-election. Democrats won a trifecta in the state for the first time in 40 years.[2]

  1. ^ Perkins, Tom (November 17, 2022). "How Michigan Democrats took control for the first time in decades". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  2. ^ "Michigan Democrats take state legislative trifecta for first time in nearly four decades". The State News. Retrieved April 26, 2023.