Michigan's 30th Senate district

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Senator
  Mark Huizenga
R–Walker
Demographics81% White
5% Black
7% Hispanic
2% Asian
1% Other
4% Multiracial
Population(2022)269,074
Notes[1]
Michigan's 30th
State Senate district
Senator
  Mark Huizenga
R–Walker
Demographics81% White
5% Black
7% Hispanic
2% Asian
1% Other
4% Multiracial
Population (2022)269,074
Notes[1]

Michigan's 30th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. The 30th 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 Republican Mark Huizenga since 2023, succeeding fellow Republican Roger Victory.

By most measures, the 2012-2022 version of the district was the most Republican-leaning district in the Senate. However, redistricting in 2022 reconfigured the district to take in much of the northern half of the city of Grand Rapids, making it a more competitive seat.[4] Incumbent Republican state senator Mark Huizenga, who had won a special election for the previous 28th district,[5] was narrowly re-elected over Democratic state representative David LaGrand, the closest race of the entire 2022 state Senate elections.[6]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 30 encompasses parts of Kent and Ottawa counties.[7]

District 30, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, was exactly coterminous with Ottawa County in the western suburbs of Grand Rapids, including the communities of Grand Haven, Hudsonville, Coopersville, Zeeland, Ferrysburg, Allendale, Jenison, Georgetown Township, Grand Haven Township, Holland Township, Park Township, Spring Lake Township, Zeeland Township, and most of northern Holland.[8]

The district was located entirely within Michigan's 2nd congressional district, and overlapped with the 88th, 89th, and 90th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.[9]

List of senators

Senator Party Dates Residence Notes
John S. Smith Democratic 1853–1854 Armada [10][11]
Cortez P. Hooker Democratic 1855–1856 Ashley [10][12][13]
Stephen H. Warren Republican 1857–1858 Eureka [10][14][15]
Osmond Tower Republican 1859–1862 Ionia [10][16]
Nelson Green Republican 1863–1864 Clay Banks [10][17]
Elias W. Merrill Republican 1865–1866 Muskegon [10][18]
Israel E. Carleton Republican 1867–1870 Whitehall Lived in Mears until around 1869.[10][19]
Wales F. Storrs Republican 1871–1872 Coopersville [10][20]
Edgar L. Gray Republican 1873–1876 Newaygo [10][21]
Fitch R. Williams Republican 1877–1878 Elk Rapids [10][22]
George W. Bell Republican 1879–1880 Cheboygan [10][23][24]
Archibald Buttars Republican 1881–1882 Charlevoix [10][25]
John H. Richardson Independent 1883–1884 Tuscola [10][26]
Lewis C. Davis Democratic 1885–1886 Vassar Elected on a Fusionist ticket, also backed by the Greenback Party.[10][27]
Henry W. Seymour Republican 1887–1888 Sault St. Marie Resigned.[10][28][29]
Albert O. Blackwell Republican 1889–1890 Gladstone [10][30]
George W. Sharp Democratic 1891–1892 Newberry [10][31]
Joseph Flesheim Republican 1893–1894 Menominee [10][32]
Richard Mason Republican 1895–1898 Gladstone [10][33]
Fred K. Baker Republican 1899–1900 Menominee [10][34]
Oramel B. Fuller Republican 1901–1904 Ford River [10][35]
Willis N. Mills Republican 1905–1906 Menominee [10][36]
Oramel B. Fuller Republican 1907–1908 Ford River [10][35]
Otto Fowle Republican 1909–1912 Sault St. Marie [10][37]
James C. Wood Republican 1913–1918 Manistique [10][38]
William A. Lemire Republican 1919–1922 Escanaba [10][39]
Frank P. Bohn Republican 1923–1926 Newberry [10][40]
Herbert J. Rushton Republican 1927–1932 Escanaba [10][41]
W. F. Doyle Republican 1933–1934 Menominee [10][42]
John F. Luecke Democratic 1935–1936 Escanaba [10][43]
James D. Dotsch Democratic 1937–1940 Garden [10][44]
Joseph A. Laframboise Democratic 1941–1944 Gladstone [10][45]
George Girrbach Republican 1945–1948 Sault St. Marie Died in office.[10][46]
William A. Ellsworth Republican 1949–1954 St. Ignace [10][47]
Edward H. Gibbs Democratic 1955–1956 Perkins [10][48]
William E. Miron Democratic 1957–1962 Escanaba Died in office.[10][49]
Kent T. Lundgren Republican 1962–1964 Menominee [10][50]
Emil Lockwood Republican 1965–1970 St. Louis [10][51]
Bill Ballenger Republican 1971–1974 Delta Township Lived in Ovid until around 1972.[52][53][54]
Richard J. Allen Republican 1975–1982 Alma [10][55][56]
Alan Cropsey Republican 1983–1986 DeWitt [10][57]
Frederick P. Dillingham Republican 1987–1994 Fowlerville [10][58]
Glenn Steil Sr. Republican 1995–2002 Grand Rapids [10][59]
Wayne Kuipers Republican 2003–2010 Holland [10][60]
Arlan Meekhof Republican 2011–2018 West Olive [61][10]
Roger Victory Republican 2019–2022 Georgetown Township [62][63][64]
Mark Huizenga Republican 2023–present Walker [65]

Recent election results

Historical district boundaries

References

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