Michigan's 12th Senate district

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Senator
  Kevin Hertel
D–St. Clair Shores
Demographics80% White
12% Black
3% Hispanic
1% Asian
4% Multiracial
Population(2022)257,022
Notes[1]
Michigan's 12th
State Senate district
Senator
  Kevin Hertel
D–St. Clair Shores
Demographics80% White
12% Black
3% Hispanic
1% Asian
4% Multiracial
Population (2022)257,022
Notes[1]

Michigan's 12th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. The 12th district was created by the 1850 Michigan Constitution, as the 1835 constitution only permitted a maximum of eight senate districts.[2][3] It has been represented by Democrat Kevin Hertel since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Rosemary Bayer.[4][5]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 12 encompasses parts of Macomb, St. Clair, and Wayne counties.[6]

District 12, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered much of central Oakland County in the northern suburbs of Detroit, including Pontiac, Southfield Township, Bloomfield Township, Auburn Hills, Keego Harbor, Orion Township, Oakland Township, Addison Township, Oxford Township, and Independence Township.[7]

The district overlapped with Michigan's 8th, 9th, 11th, and 14th congressional districts, and with the 29th, 35th, 40th, 43rd, 45th, and 46th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.[8]

List of senators

Senator Party Dates Residence Notes
Moses A. McNaughton Free Soil 1853–1854 Jackson [9][10]
Austin Blair Republican 1855–1856 Jackson [9][11]
Joseph E. Beebe Republican 1857–1858 Jackson [9][12]
Ira C. Backus Republican 1859–1860 Jackson [9][13]
Charles V. DeLand Republican 1861–1862 Jackson [9][14]
Townsend E. Gidley Democratic 1863–1864 Parma Elected on a Fusionist ticket.[9][15][16]
Richard J. Crego Republican 1865–1866 Brooklyn [9][17]
George A. Smith Republican 1867–1868 Somerset [9][18]
Ezra L. Koon Republican 1869–1870 Hillsdale [9][19]
William R. Stoddard Republican 1871–1872 Litchfield [9][20]
Levi Sparks Republican 1873–1874 Buchanan [9][21]
Francis H. Berrick Democratic 1875–1876 Buchanan [9][22]
William O. Packard Republican 1877–1878 Covert [9][23]
James M. Shepard Republican 1879–1880 Cassopolis [9][24]
Henry Ford Republican 1881–1882 Lawton [9][25]
Charles J. Monroe Republican 1883–1886 South Haven [9][26]
John Holbrook Republican 1887–1890 Lansing [9][27]
Marcus Wilcox Democratic 1891–1892 Corunna Endorsed by both the Democrats and the Patrons of Industry.[a][9][28][29][30]
Harvey Mellen Democratic 1893–1894 Romeo [9][31]
Fred M. Warner Republican 1895–1898 Farmington [9][32]
George B. Davis Republican 1899–1900 Utica [9][33]
Jerome W. Nims Republican 1901–1902 Romeo [9][34]
I. Roy Waterbury Republican 1903–1904 Highland Station [9][35]
Thaddeus D. Seeley Republican 1905–1908 Pontiac [9][36]
Frank T. Newton Republican 1909–1912 Ypsilanti [9][37]
James E. McGregor Democratic 1913–1914 Pontiac [9][38]
Frank L. Covert Republican 1915–1918 Pontiac [9][39]
George W. Millen Republican 1919–1920 Ann Arbor [9][40]
Charles A. Sink Republican 1921–1922 Ann Arbor [9][41]
Andrew B. Glaspie Republican 1923–1924 Oxford [9][42]
Elijah B. Howarth Jr. Republican 1925–1926 Royal Oak [9][43]
Charles A. Sink Republican 1927–1930 Ann Arbor [9][41]
James E. Lawson Republican 1931–1932 Royal Oak [9][44]
Andrew L. Moore Republican 1933–1935 Pontiac Died in office.[9][45]
George P. McCallum Republican 1937–1944 Ann Arbor [9][46]
George N. Higgins Republican 1945–1946 Ferndale [9][47]
Edgar F. Down Republican 1947–1948 Pleasant Ridge [9][48]
George N. Higgins Republican 1949–1954 Ferndale [9][47]
William Broomfield Republican 1955–1956 Royal Oak [9][49]
L. Harvey Lodge Republican 1957–1960 Waterford Township [9][50]
Farrell E. Roberts Republican 1961–1964 Pontiac [9][51]
Edward J. Robinson Democratic 1965–1966 Dearborn [9][52]
N. Lorraine Beebe Republican 1967–1970 Dearborn [9][53]
David Plawecki Democratic 1971–1982 Dearborn Heights [9][54]
William Faust Democratic 1983–1994 Westland [9][55]
Doug Carl Republican 1995–1997 Mount Clemens Died in office.[9][56]
David Jaye Republican 1997–2001 Utica Expelled.[9][57][58]
Alan Sanborn Republican 2001–2002 Richmond [9][59]
Mike Bishop Republican 2003–2010 Rochester [9][60]
Jim Marleau Republican 2011–2018 Lake Orion [9][61]
Rosemary Bayer Democratic 2019–2022 Beverly Hills [9][62]
Kevin Hertel Democratic 2023–present St. Clair Shores [63]

Recent election results

2022

2022 Michigan Senate election, District 12[64]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Pamela Hornberger 19,198 64.5
Republican Michael D. Williams 10,547 35.5
Total votes 29,745 100
General election
Democratic Kevin Hertel 62,772 50.2
Republican Pamela Hornberger 62,368 49.8
Total votes 125,140 100
Democratic hold

2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 12[64]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Michael McCready 12,524 45.4
Republican Jim Tedder 12,239 44.3
Republican Terry Whitney 2,073 7.5
Republican Vernon Molnar 770 2.8
Total votes 27,606 100
General election
Democratic Rosemary Bayer 59,302 49.4
Republican Michael McCready 58,363 48.6
Libertarian Jeff Pittel 2,404 2.0
Total votes 120,071 100
Democratic gain from Republican

2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 12[64]
Primary election
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Jim Marleau (incumbent) 14,617 71.3
Republican Bob Gray 5,873 28.7
Total votes 20,490 100
Democratic Paul Secrest 7,649 68.4
Democratic Kenneth VanNorwick 3,540 31.6
Total votes 11,189 100
General election
Republican Jim Marleau (incumbent) 50,117 57.5
Democratic Paul Secrest 37,067 42.5
Total votes 87,184 100
Republican hold

Federal and statewide results

Year Office Results[65]
2020 President Biden 52.2 – 46.3%
2018 Senate Stabenow 50.6 – 48.0%
Governor Whitmer 52.0 – 45.7%
2016 President Trump 47.9 – 47.4%
2014 Senate Peters 50.1 – 46.5%
Governor Snyder 60.5 – 37.9%
2012 President Romney 49.9 – 49.4%
Senate Stabenow 52.7 – 44.2%

Historical district boundaries

Notes

References

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