Michigan Governor
Ratings
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We do not carry Michigan's certified primary result.
Michigan Bureau of Elections, Department of State publishes the certified primary result on its official results page.
Michigan's election site turns away automated requests, and we do not work around that.
Michigan held its primary on August 4, 2026.
What we know
- Per Wikipedia, Jocelyn Benson won the Democratic primary.
- Per Wikipedia, John James won the Republican primary.
State demographics · Census ACS
- Median household income
- $72,875 (±$293)
- Median gross rent, monthly
- $1,129 (±$4)
- People below the poverty line
- 13.2% (±0.2%)
- People without health insurance
- 4.9% (±0.1%)
- Renter households paying 30% or more of income on rent
- 50.4% (±0.4%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2020-2024 , statewide; the survey window ends Dec 31, 2024. Survey estimates; the figure after ± is the 90% margin of error. The renter-burden share is derived by Thin Gold from two published Census percentages. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
Election information
- Voter registration deadline
- October 19, 2026, per the federal form; confirm with your state (U.S. Election Assistance Commission, National Mail Voter Registration Form, as of October 10, 2026)
- Early voting
- Not shown. The state's election website does not allow automated access to its election pages, so no state-published date is shown.
What is not on this page
- Candidate issue positions are not shown. We list a position only when it is tied to a named, dated source.
- No individual poll results are compiled for this race.
- Filing data from Michigan Department of State, Bureau of Elections is not open to automated readers; see www.michigan.gov/sos/elections/disclosure/cfr.
- The previous result for this seat is not shown: we hold no certified results record for it yet.
- We do not yet have the 2024 presidential result for this race.