Blog tagged as Elections

While the number of state House incumbent upsets during both primaries and general elections has varied across election cycles, generally no more than six incumbents have been unseated per election cycle, a MIRS analysis of election day results from 2022 back to 1998 found.

Whether the Secretary of State has the power to issue specific instructions on how challengers and poll watchers are supposed to act at the voting booth without going through the traditional rule-making process is now in the Michigan Supreme Court’s hands.

The trio charged in a signature fraud case that kept eight candidates off the 2022 ballot are headed to trial.

Matt DePerno, the Republicans’ 2022 Attorney General nominee, confirmed he’s interested in the GOP’s Michigan Supreme Court nomination in the four-year race against incumbent Justice Kyra Bolden.

The Board of State Canvassers voted unanimously on Monday that state Court of Appeals candidate Lisa Marie Neilson missed the 6,200 signatures required to make the August primary ballot by 23 names, marking the presumed end to a question that has stretched for weeks.