Michigan 2012 Election Results — MultiState Elections

Michigan held its general election on November 6, 2012, deciding 110 legislative seats. No chamber changed party control. The Senate was not up for regular election this cycle.

Highlights

Republicans kept their House majority on the new post-census maps, though Democrats narrowed it to 59-51, leaving the party in full control of state government under Gov. Rick Snyder (R).
The House fight's sharpest race grew out of a spring scandal. Rep. Roy Schmidt (R) of Grand Rapids switched from Democrat to Republican minutes before the May filing deadline, and a sham Democratic candidate was recruited to face him; the county prosecutor called the plan legal but a "fraud" on the electorate. Schmidt had consulted Speaker Jase Bolger (R) in developing it. In November, Winnie Brinks (D) beat Schmidt by about 25 points in a crowded House District 76, while Bolger held District 63 by about 760 votes over Bill Farmer (D).
Voters rejected all six proposals. A no vote on Proposal 1 repealed the state's emergency manager law, and Proposal 2, a union-backed amendment that would have voided laws restricting union organizing, lost by about 15 points. The other four dealt with home health care bargaining, renewable energy, a two-thirds vote for tax increases, and new international bridges. A month after the election, Snyder signed right-to-work bills.
In all, 5 House incumbents lost, all Republicans. Besides Schmidt:
- Gretchen Driskell (D) beat Rep. Mark Ouimet (R) by about 6 points in District 52.
- Theresa Abed (D) beat Rep. Deb Shaughnessy (R) by about 7 points in District 71.
- Scott Dianda (D) beat Rep. Matt Huuki (R) by about 3 points in District 110.
- Collene Lamonte (D) edged Rep. Holly Hughes (R) by about 330 votes in District 91.
Republicans held two other seats by fewer than 450 votes: Martin Howrylak (R) in open District 41 and Rep. Pat Somerville (R) in District 23. Republicans' only pickup came in the open District 39, redrawn to shed Democratic precincts, where Klint Kesto (R) won by about 7 points.

Legislature

House (110 seats): 46 D, 62 R, 2 other or vacant before the election, 51 D, 59 R after; control stayed with Republicans.
Senate (38 seats): 12 D, 26 R before the election, 12 D, 26 R after; control stayed with Republicans.

Legislative races

Race	Winner	Others	Notes
House 1	Brian Banks (D) 70.79%	Dan Schulte (R) 29.21%
House 2	Alberta Tinsley Talabi (D) 71.78%	Daniel Corrigan Grano (R) 25.9%, Hans Christopher Barbe (G) 2.32%
House 3	John Olumba (D) 95.86%	Dolores Brodersen (R) 2.91%, Louis M Novak (G) 1.23%
House 4	Rose Mary C Robinson (D) 95.3%	Ron Michalski (R) 4.7%
House 5	Fred Durhal Jr. (D) 94.21%	Samuel R Rodriguez (R) 5.79%
House 6	Rashida Tlaib (D) 92.19%	Darrin Daigle (R) 5.08%, Elena M Herrada (G) 2.73%
House 7	Thomas F Stallworth Iii (D) 97.98%	Mark Ashley Price (R) 2.02%
House 8	David E Nathan (D)	David Porter (R)
House 9	Harvey Santana (D) 95.34%	Rene Simpson (R) 4.66%
House 10	Phil Cavanagh (D) 86.43%	Jasmine Bridges (R) 13.57%
House 11	David Knezek (D) 71.75%	Kathleen Kopczyk (R) 28.25%
House 12	Douglas A Geiss (D) 75.21%	Joanne Michalik (R) 24.79%
House 13	Andrew J Kandrevas (D) 64.56%	Tony Amorose (R) 35.44%
House 14	Paul Clemente (D) 70.92%	Edward Gubics (R) 25.9%, Loel Robert Gnadt (L) 3.18%
House 15	George T Darany (D) 75.04%	Priscilla Parness (R) 24.96%
House 16	Robert Kosowski (D) 67.65%	Mary Stargell (R) 27.65%, Steve Boron (L) 2.8%
House 17	Bill Lavoy (D) 61.32%	Anne Rossio (R) 38.68%
House 18	Sarah Roberts (D) 63.54%	Candice B Rusie (R) 33.82%, Daniel J Flamand (L) 2.64%
House 19	John J Walsh (R) 59.94%	Richard Tannous (D) 40.06%
House 20	Kurt Heise (R) 56.06%	Tim Roraback (D) 43.94%
House 21	Dian Slavens (D) 61.59%	Joe Barnabei (R) 38.41%
House 22	Harold L Haugh (D) 70.38%	Art Blundell (R) 29.62%
House 23	Pat Somerville (R) 50.49%	Tom Boritzki (D) 49.51%
House 24	Anthony Forlini (R) 54.71%	Philip Kurczewski (D) 45.29%
House 25	Henry Yanez (D) 51.43%	Sean Clark (R) 48.57%
House 26	Jim Townsend (D) 60.36%	Mark Bliss (R) 35.86%, James Young (L) 3.78%
House 27	Ellen Cogen Lipton (D) 75.61%	Ezra Drissman (R) 20.34%, John Wierzbicki (L) 4.05%
House 28	Jon M Switalski (D) 71.49%	Steven Klusek (R) 28.51%
House 29	Tim Greimel (D) 77.4%	Brian Stebick (R) 22.6%
House 30	Jeff Farrington (R) 53.25%	Joseph Bogdan (D) 46.75%
House 31	Marilyn Lane (D) 61.74%	Lynn Evans (R) 33.86%, James Miller (L) 4.4%
House 32	Andrea Lafontaine (R) 58.62%	Sheri Smith (D) 41.38%
House 33	Ken Goike (R) 61.91%	Martha O'Kray (D) 38.09%
House 34	Woodrow Stanley (D) 86.92%	Bruce Rogers (R) 13.08%
House 35	Rudy Hobbs (D) 83.03%	Timothy C Sulowski (R) 16.97%
House 36	Pete Lund (R) 64.14%	Robert C. Murphy (D) 35.86%
House 37	Vicki Barnett (D) 61.69%	Bruce Lilley (R) 38.31%
House 38	Hugh D Crawford (R) 59.2%	Chuck Tindall (D) 40.8%
House 39	Klint Kesto (R) 53.25%	Pam Jackson (D) 46.75%, Beth Ayers (I) 0%	Flipped D to R
House 40	Michael D Mccready (R) 57.01%	Dorian Coston (D) 40.65%, Steve Burgis (L) 2.34%
House 41	Martin Howrylak (R) 50.46%	Mary Kerwin (D) 49.54%
House 42	Bill Rogers (R) 63.25%	Shanda Willis (D) 33.07%, James H Lewis II (L) 3.67%
House 43	Gail Haines (R) 60.76%	Neil Billington (D) 39.24%
House 44	Eileen Kowall (R) 62.79%	Tom Crawford (D) 33.2%, Scott Poquette (L) 4.01%
House 45	Tom Mcmillin (R) 56%	Joanna Vanraaphorst (D) 44%
House 46	Bradford C Jacobsen (R) 63.72%	Daniel W Sargent (D) 36.28%
House 47	Cindy Denby (R) 64.06%	Shawn Lowe Desai (D) 32.21%, James Weeks II (L) 3.73%
House 48	Pam Faris (D) 63.77%	Jeffrey Woolman (R) 36.23%
House 49	Jim Ananich (D) 74.51%	Robert J Daunt (R) 25.49%
House 50	Charles Smiley (D) 60.85%	Miles T Gadola (R) 39.15%
House 51	Joseph Graves (R) 54.33%	Steven Losey (D) 45.67%
House 52	Gretchen Driskell (D) 53.02%	Mark Ouimet (R) 46.98%	Flipped R to D; Incumbent defeated
House 53	Jeff Irwin (D) 80.93%	John J Spisak (R) 19.06%, Thomas Partridge (I) 0%
House 54	David Rutledge (D) 77.45%	Bill Emmerich (R) 22.55%, Sean Haggard (I) 0%
House 55	Adam Zemke (D) 64.46%	Owen Diaz (R) 32.06%, David A Mcmahon (G) 3.48%	Flipped R to D
House 56	Dale Zorn (R) 57.64%	Larry Crider (D) 42.36%
House 57	Nancy Jenkins (R) 52.5%	Jim Berryman (D) 47.5%
House 58	Kenneth Kurtz (R) 69.82%	Amaryllis Thomas (D) 30.18%
House 59	Matt Lori (R) 62.27%	Mike Moroz (D) 37.73%
House 60	Sean McCann (D) 74.23%	Mike Perrin (R) 25.77%
House 61	Margaret E O'Brien (R) 58.25%	Michael E Martin (D) 41.75%
House 62	Kate Segal (D) 57.67%	Mark A Behnke (R) 42.33%
House 63	Jase Bolger (R) 50.87%	Bill Farmer (D) 49.13%
House 64	Earl Poleski (R) 56.21%	Barbara Shelton (D) 43.79%
House 65	Mike Shirkey (R) 56.81%	Bonnie Johnson (D) 43.19%
House 66	Aric Nesbitt (R) 58.56%	Richard Rajkovich (D) 41.44%
House 67	Tom Cochran (D) 56.38%	Jeff Oesterle (R) 43.62%
House 68	Andy Schor (D) 76.61%	Timothy B Moede (R) 23.39%
House 69	Sam Singh (D) 64.9%	Susan Mcgillicuddy (R) 35.1%
House 70	Rick Outman (R) 54.46%	Mike Huckleberry (D) 45.54%
House 71	Theresa Abed (D) 53.43%	Deb Shaughnessy (R) 46.57%	Flipped R to D; Incumbent defeated
House 72	Ken Yonker (R) 58.54%	Scott Urbanowski (D) 37.95%, William R Wenzel (L) 3.52%
House 73	Peter Macgregor (R) 63.46%	G Scott Schuiling (D) 32.23%, Ron Heeren (L) 3%
House 74	Rob Verheulen (R) 65.55%	Richard C Erdman (D) 34.45%
House 75	Brandon Dillon (D) 75.78%	Wm Nathan Sneller (R) 24.22%
House 76	Winnie Brinks (D)	Roy Schmidt (R), Bing Goei (I)	Flipped R to D; Incumbent defeated
House 77	Tom Hooker (R)	Scott Barton (D), Larry Warner (I)
House 78	Dave Pagel (R)	Jack Arbanas (D)
House 79	Al Pscholka (R)	Jim Hahn (D), Carl G Oehling (I)
House 80	Bob Genetski (R)	Stuart D. Peet (D)
House 81	Dan Lauwers (R) 53.84%	Patrick Phelan (D) 46.16%
House 82	Kevin Daley (R) 58.97%	John Nugent (D) 41.03%
House 83	Paul Muxlow (R) 55.74%	Carol Cease Campbell (D) 44.26%
House 84	Terry L Brown (D) 52.61%	Dan Grimshaw (R) 38.15%, Edward J Canfield (I) 9.24%	Flipped R to D
House 85	Ben Glardon (R) 53.59%	Paul Ray (D) 39.93%, Matthew Shepard (I) 6.48%
House 86	Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R) 70.23%	Brian Bosak (D) 29.77%
House 87	Mike Callton (R) 61.63%	Sherry Anderson (D) 34.8%, Joseph P Gillotte (L) 3.57%
House 88	Roger Victory (R) 86.87%	Michael J Perry (L) 13.13%
House 89	Amanda Price (R) 65.72%	Don Bergman (D) 34.28%
House 90	Joe Haveman (R) 100%	Unopposed
House 91	Collene Lamonte (D) 48.1%	Holly Hughes (R) 47.27%, Nick Sundquist (L) 4.64%	Flipped R to D; Incumbent defeated
House 92	Marcia Hovey-Wright (D) 73.1%	Travis Shepherd (R) 26.9%
House 93	Tom Leonard (R) 56.61%	Paul E Silva (D) 43.39%
House 94	Tim Kelly (R) 56%	Judith Lincoln (D) 44%
House 95	Stacy Erwin Oakes (D) 77.95%	Jeff Baker (R) 22.05%
House 96	Charles M Brunner (D) 69.46%	Chad M Dewey (R) 30.54%
House 97	Joel Johnson (R) 61.82%	Chris Breznau (D) 38.18%
House 98	Jim Stamas (R) 58.89%	Joan Brausch (D) 41.11%
House 99	Kevin Cotter (R) 57.4%	Adam Lawrence (D) 42.6%
House 100	Jon Bumstead (R) 62.25%	Ida Dehaas (D) 37.75%
House 101	Ray Franz (R) 51.04%	Allen O'Shea (D) 48.96%
House 102	Phil Potvin (R) 54.78%	Brendan P Maturen (D) 45.22%
House 103	Bruce R Rendon (R) 52.8%	Lon Johnson (D) 47.2%
House 104	Wayne Schmidt (R)	Betsy Coffia (D)
House 105	Greg Macmaster (R)	William J. Wieske (D)
House 106	Peter Pettalia (R)	Kenneth C. Hubbard (D), John Daniel Longhurst (I)
House 107	Frank Foster (R)	Susan Shumway (D)
House 108	Ed McBroom (R)	Sharon Gray (D)
House 109	John Kivela (D) 58.37%	Jack Hubbard (R) 41.63%
House 110	Scott Dianda (D) 51.59%	Matt Huuki (R) 48.41%	Flipped R to D; Incumbent defeated

Ballot measures

Measure	Description	Result
Proposal 1	Establish provisions relating to the appointment of an emergency manager upon the finding of a fiscal emergency	Failed (47% yes)
Proposal 2	Establish a constitutional right for public and private employees to organize and bargain collectively	Failed (43% yes)
Proposal 3	Require, by 2025, that 25% of annual sales of electricity to be from renewable energy sources and establish provisions to achieve such requirement	Failed (38% yes)
Proposal 4	Allow in-home care workers to collectively bargain	Failed (44% yes)
Proposal 5	Require a two-thirds vote of the Michigan State House and Senate or voter approval at a statewide November election to enact new taxes, increase tax rates, or expand the tax base	Failed (31% yes)
Proposal 6	Require approval from a majority of voters statewide and in each municipality where a new international bridge or tunnel would be located before the state could spend funds or resources on the project	Failed (41% yes)

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