Blog tagged as Elections

While other Democratic governors are putting the wagons in a circle to inoculate programs that might be bashed by the incoming president, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is charting her own course on how to deal with the new Donald Trump White House.

Unofficial election night results published on the Secretary of State's website mistakenly under-counted the votes for Michigan State University Trustee candidate Democrat Rebecca Bahar-Cook by close to 18,000 votes in Allegan County and 8,517 votes in Ottawa and Kent.

A higher percentage of voters cast ballots in the 2024 election than any other Michigan election since the Bureau of Elections started keeping such information in 1948

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) narrowly defeated former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, lining herself up to be Michigan's second-ever female U.S. senator and preventing Republicans from grabbing a seat they haven't touched in more than 20 years.

Former President Donald Trump won Michigan on Tuesday night for the second time in his political career after taking all but nine of the state's 83 counties, including the bellwether counties of Saginaw and Muskegon, which Trump lost in his lone Michigan defeat of 2020.