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2024StatewideR+1.4

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

County83 areas · 2024 presidential vote

Washtenaw157,15258,844D+44.4221,542 Ingham94,54250,564D+29.7148,101 Wayne537,032288,860D+29.0856,690 Kalamazoo84,50158,671D+17.7145,710 Oakland419,519337,791D+10.6772,145 Marquette20,86617,459D+8.739,009 Leelanau9,4068,035D+7.817,685 Kent192,668172,720D+5.4371,947 Genesee114,670105,303D+4.2223,268 Grand Traverse30,33931,423R+1.762,772 Muskegon46,02847,733R+1.895,181 Eaton31,05633,102R+3.165,208 Saginaw49,51552,912R+3.3103,846 Isabella14,01116,320R+7.530,835 Berrien38,32344,975R+7.984,488 Clinton22,45026,751R+8.649,986 Benzie5,7806,895R+8.712,846 Emmet10,00512,465R+10.822,851 Keweenaw690896R+12.81,611 Macomb214,977284,660R+13.7509,152 Calhoun28,98838,606R+14.068,505 Bay25,76734,792R+14.761,338 Van Buren17,17523,407R+15.141,169 Midland20,92628,571R+15.250,301 Manistee6,3098,748R+15.915,297 Charlevoix7,19710,183R+16.917,661 Houghton7,88111,181R+17.019,374 Gogebic3,3854,803R+17.18,295 Alger2,0753,116R+19.85,258 Ottawa69,653106,133R+20.4178,507 Jackson32,34850,199R+21.383,827 Mason6,97310,830R+21.418,064 Lenawee20,78733,463R+23.055,016 Shiawassee15,33524,718R+23.140,685 Antrim6,33010,341R+23.816,883 Livingston49,50381,217R+23.9132,448 Chippewa6,79611,249R+24.218,365 Mackinac2,6754,476R+24.97,238 Monroe32,62257,405R+27.191,356 Allegan25,63745,206R+27.271,913 Alpena6,03810,967R+28.617,213 Presque Isle3,0365,568R+29.08,742 Iron2,4414,501R+29.37,027 Baraga1,4882,779R+29.84,332 Oceana5,0859,547R+30.014,870 Mecosta7,68814,445R+30.022,489 Ontonagon1,3132,479R+30.43,841 Delta7,46214,109R+30.421,874 Iosco5,34410,155R+30.615,731 Cheboygan5,54310,653R+31.116,423 Gratiot6,68212,894R+31.319,848 Ionia11,33822,179R+31.934,021 Schoolcraft1,6313,196R+32.04,898 Lake2,2984,523R+32.26,915 Roscommon5,29010,582R+32.916,068 Menominee4,2568,647R+33.613,060 Crawford2,7525,613R+33.88,476 Cass9,05018,505R+33.927,871 St. Joseph9,45219,403R+34.029,307 Barry12,39125,650R+34.338,625 Wexford6,22412,968R+34.619,476 St. Clair30,84464,277R+34.696,524 Otsego5,05210,693R+35.315,971 Dickinson4,76310,324R+36.315,312 Clare5,27311,772R+37.617,288 Montcalm10,36823,946R+39.034,845 Lapeer16,33838,398R+39.855,439 Arenac2,6626,379R+40.69,158 Huron5,52213,224R+40.618,969 Gladwin4,50110,809R+40.715,488 Alcona2,1405,257R+41.77,483 Ogemaw3,5788,879R+42.012,622 Branch5,91114,848R+42.421,089 Newaygo8,13120,630R+42.829,201 Kalkaska3,2068,149R+42.911,529 Tuscola8,56221,764R+43.030,717 Oscoda1,4143,716R+44.35,192 Montmorency1,7024,599R+45.36,391 Luce7692,170R+46.92,985 Sanilac5,95717,080R+47.723,339 Osceola3,3269,639R+47.913,184 Hillsdale5,87518,631R+51.424,828 Missaukee1,9457,066R+56.09,152

Michigan is the northern post of the blue wall, and few states have changed their minds more often. It went to Donald Trump by two-tenths of a point in 2016 — his first crack in the Democratic Midwest — back to Joe Biden by 2.8 in 2020, then to Trump again by 1.4 in 2024, a 4.2-point swing in the margin across a single cycle. Much of that traces to one place. Wayne County, which holds Detroit and Dearborn and one in six Michiganders, gave the Democratic candidate D+38.1 in 2020 and D+29.0 in 2024 — a nine-point retreat in the largest county, against a statewide margin that moved only four.

Dearborn sits inside that county, the largest Arab-American city in the country, and the demographic shows in the data: Arabic is spoken at home in 6.6 percent of Wayne County households, against 1.8 percent statewide, and 8.1 percent of county residents are counted as Muslim adherents. The county that shifted is also where that community lives — temporal context, not a claim of cause. Washtenaw County, home to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, ran the other way, the bluest county in the state at D+44.4, with Ingham, holding the capital at Lansing, at D+29.7; Kent County, around Grand Rapids, flipped to the Democratic column at D+5.4.

The red is the rest of the map. The western and northern rural counties run deeply Republican — Missaukee, in the northern Lower Peninsula, is the state’s reddest at R+56.0, with Hillsdale near it at R+51.4 — and Macomb County, the suburban county north of Detroit, held Republican at R+13.7. Underneath, Michigan is middle of the pack: 35th of fifty in median household income and 31st in college degrees, with the ninth-largest share of residents claiming no religion. In 2026 both ends of the ticket are open — Whitmer term-limited as governor, Peters retiring from the Senate — each headed for an August 4 primary not yet held.

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004D+3.4

2008D+16.5

2012D+9.5

2016R+0.2

2020D+2.8

2024R+1.4

full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 74.0% of 7,653,712 citizens 18+

Year	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	CVAP	Turnout
2024	2,736,533	2,816,636	111,017	5,664,186	7,653,712	74.0%
2020	2,804,040	2,649,852	85,410	5,539,302	7,528,995	73.6%
2016	2,268,839	2,279,543	276,160	4,824,542	7,408,626	65.1%
2012	2,564,569	2,115,256	65,491	4,745,316	7,293,126	65.1%
2008	2,872,579	2,048,639	80,548	5,001,766	7,327,818	68.3%
2004	2,479,183	2,313,746	46,323	4,839,252	7,362,510^†	65.7%

^† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German17.7%12.5%

English10.5%9.5%

Irish9.9%9.4%

Polish7.2%2.2%

Italian4.2%4.8%

American4.2%5.3%

French3.0%1.6%

Dutch3.0%—

African American†12.2%9.9%

African0.5%0.5%

Mexican4.0%11.3%

Puerto Rican0.5%1.8%

Cuban0.2%0.7%

Asian Indian1.2%1.4%

Chinese0.5%1.3%

Filipino0.2%0.9%

Korean0.2%0.4%

Bangladeshi0.2%—

Vietnamese0.2%0.6%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	Michigan	United States
Median age	40.3	39.1
Age 18–24	9.2%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	18.5%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	Michigan	United States
Median household income	$72,875	$84,427
Poverty rate	13.2%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	32.6%	35.6%

Languages at home

Measure	Michigan	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	10.4%	22.3%
Spanish	3.1%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	1.8%	2.0%
Arabic	1.8%	0.4%

Religious landscape

Measure	Michigan	United States
Catholic	14.8%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	12.1%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	60.3%	51.5%

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.

current representation

Current officeholders

DGretchen WhitmerGovernor

DGarlin GilchristLieutenant Governor

DJocelyn BensonSecretary of State

DDana NesselAttorney General

DGary PetersU.S. Senate-0.25

DElissa SlotkinU.S. Senate-0.37

U.S. House13 seats · D 6 · R 7

RMI-01Jack Bergman

RMI-02John Moolenaar

DMI-03Hillary Scholten

RMI-04Bill Huizenga

RMI-05Tim Walberg

DMI-06Debbie Dingell

RMI-07Tom Barrett

DMI-08Kristen McDonald Rivet

RMI-09Lisa McClain

RMI-10John James

DMI-11Haley Stevens

DMI-12Rashida Tlaib

DMI-13Shri Thanedar

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / Michigan SoS / Wikipedia); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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