Gov.-elect Jocelyn Benson won Michigan by roughly the same margin Gov. Gretchen Whitmer did four years ago. Democrats, however, emerged from Tuesday’s election with considerably more congressional and legislative seats.

Khristian Silvis, who won the 84th House District this election, and her campaign manager were involved in a crash last week that left a mother and her 7-year-old daughter seriously injured and hospitalized.

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy filed a federal lawsuit challenging Proposal 2, which voters approved Tuesday to impose new restrictions on political contributions.

Mike Rogers stood in front of about 50 people, mostly older adults, to deliver his final message here last week.

Michigan's population has grown less than 2% since 2000, but participation in its gubernatorial elections has jumped nearly 40% since 2002 — and political analyst Mark Grebner expects another turnout record Tuesday.

Jalal Abdallah, the Dearborn attorney expected to win the 15th House District seat next week, acknowledged today that he failed to pay clients the full amount of their settlements.

Seven of the last eight U.S. Senate polls have shown the race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers to be within the margin of error. If this holds up, the four third-party candidates (Green Party, Libertarian, Natural Law and U.S. Taxpayers Party) may have an impact on who ultimately wins.

A political action committee (PAC) that openly promotes itself as attempting to cost Republicans control of the U.S. Senate by promoting Libertarian and other conservative third-party candidates has produced 20 advertisements, commercials and songs for Michigan’s race, including an AI-crafted music video promoting U.S. Taxpayers Party candidate Tim Long.

Less than two weeks left until the General Election and the negative ads are running full blast in the last remaining competitive state Senate races that will determine whether Republicans can manage a 19-19 split or if Democrats can grow their majority to 22-16.

An outfit calling itself “Wedgewood Polls” admitted today that its results were mostly fabricated, prompting former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow to describe how a June release from Wedgewood placing her at 9% damaged fundraising, devastated volunteers and intensified pressure to leave the race.

Former gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan advised residents against putting him down as a write-in candidate, saying, "People ought not to waste their vote voting for me." He also doesn't feel like he needs to make any endorsements ahead of Nov. 3.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) and three state Democratic lawmakers warned that rhetoric from Washington and plans to send Justice Department election watchers are fueling fears among Michigan voters about whether their ballots will count or be challenged Nov. 3.

Michigan’s U.S. Senate race remains narrowly divided, with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed holding a two-point edge over Republican Mike Rogers in new InsiderAdvantage polling that also shows close contests in Alaska and Kansas.

With 25 days until Election Day, the number of House races the caucuses are playing in is shrinking, not expanding.

The Michigan Victory Fund (MVF), the political action committee for the Republican Governors Association (RGA), has significantly scaled back its media spending on John James (R-Shelby Township), a notable development that is leaving the Republican nominee with no substantial paid media presence four weeks before the general election.

Michigan voters have returned 30% more absentee ballots than at the same point before the 2022 general election, although Practical Political Data’s Mark Grebner cautioned that automatic ballot mailings help explain the increase.

Republican Secretary of State nominee Anthony Forlini says college students should vote in their hometowns, but his party’s youth chair encourages them to register near campus when doing so could help Republicans win.

Putting money on an election could change more than a trader’s bank balance. It could influence whether someone votes, whom they support and how they react when their candidate loses, according to researchers watching the growth of election prediction markets.

This week, MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn received in the mail at his Lansing address a campaign flier for Mike Bouchard, who is running for a congressional district 100 miles away in Macomb County.

Republican Secretary of State nominee Anthony Forlini today said third-party groups collecting and transporting voter registration forms open up folks' private details to harvesters with bad intentions. The drives also produced repeat applications from already-registered voters, he said, adding to clerks’ workload.