| Election Name: | 2020 Michigan elections |
| Country: | Michigan |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2018 Michigan elections |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2021 Michigan elections |
| Next Year: | 2021 |
This is a list of elections in the US state of Michigan in 2020. The office of the Michigan Secretary of State oversees the election process, including voting and vote counting.
To vote by mail, registered Michigan voters must request a ballot by October 30, 2020. As of early October some 2,760,076 voters had requested mail ballots.
See main article: 2020 United States presidential election in Michigan.
See also: 2020 Michigan Democratic presidential primary and 2020 Michigan Republican presidential primary.
The nominees for the presidential election were Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Jo Jorgensen.
See main article: 2020 United States Senate election in Michigan.
Gary Peters (incumbent, D) ran against John James (R), in addition to Marcia Squier (G), Doug Dern (Natural Law Party), and Valerie Willis (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan).[1]
See main article: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan.
Michigan voters elected 14 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in the general election, one from each of the 14 congressional districts.[2]
| District 1 | Dana Alan Ferguson | Jack Bergman, incumbent | Ben Boren | ||||
| District 2 | Bryan Berghoef | Bill Huizenga, incumbent | Max Riekse | Jean-Michel Creviere | Gerald T. Van Sickle | ||
| District 3 | Hillary Scholten | Peter Meijer | |||||
| District 4 | Jerry Hilliard | John Moolenaar, incumbent | David Canny | Amy Slepr | |||
| District 5 | Dan Kildee, incumbent | Tim Kelly | James Harris | Kathy Goodwin | |||
| District 6 | Jon Hoadley | Fred Upton, incumbent | Jeff DePoy | John Lawrence | |||
| District 7 | Gretchen Driskell | Tim Walberg, incumbent | |||||
| District 8 | Elissa Slotkin, incumbent | Paul Junge | Joe Hartman | ||||
| District 9 | Andy Levin, incumbent | Charles Langworthy | Mike Saliba | Andrea Kirby | |||
| District 10 | Kimberly Bizon | Lisa McClain | |||||
| District 11 | Haley Stevens, incumbent | Eric Esshaki | Leonard Schwartz | ||||
| District 12 | Debbie Dingell, incumbent | Jeff Jones | Gary Walkowicz | ||||
| District 13 | Rashida Tlaib, incumbent | David Dudenhoefer | D. Etta Wilcoxin | Articia Bomer | Sam Johnson | ||
| District 14 | Brenda Lawrence, incumbent | Robert Vance Patrick | Lisa Lane Gioia | Clyde Shabazz | Philip Kolody |
Eight state executive offices were open for election in Michigan's general election, including State Board of Education (two seats), University of Michigan Board of Regents (two seats), Michigan State University Board of Trustees (two seats), and Wayne State University Board of Governors (two seats).[3]
See main article: 2020 Michigan House of Representatives election.
See also: 2020 Michigan's 34th House of Representatives district special election.
110 seats in Michigan's House were up for election in the general election. The Michigan Republican Party retained control of the chamber.[4]
| Election Name: | 2020 Michigan Supreme Court election |
| Country: | Michigan |
| Type: | legislative |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 2018 Michigan elections#Supreme Court |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Next Election: | 2022 Michigan elections#Supreme Court |
| Next Year: | 2022 |
| Seats For Election: | 2 seats of the Supreme Court of Michigan |
| Party1: | Michigan Republican Party |
| Last Election1: | 4 |
| Seats1: | 0 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Party2: | Michigan Democratic Party |
| Last Election2: | 3 |
| Seats2: | 2 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
Two of seven seats on the Michigan Supreme Court were up for election, and one was open after an incumbent retired.[5] Supreme Court Justice Bridget McCormack ran for reelection.[6] Each voter could select up to two candidates in the state Supreme Court general election; the top two vote-getters would win the seats.[7]
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Susan Hubbard (G) | Mary Kelly (R) | Bridget Mary McCormack (D) | Kerry Lee Morgan (L) | Katherine Mary Nepton (L) | Brock Swartzle (R) | Elizabeth Welch (D) | Undecided | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan | October 29–30, 2020 | 745 (V) | ± 3.6% | 3% | 18% | 39% | 3% | 6% | 14% | 29% | 89% | |||
| Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan | September 30 – October 1, 2020 | 746 (V) | – | 6% | 9% | 23% | 6% | 5% | 8% | 17% | 126% | |||
| Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan | August 28–29, 2020 | 897 (V) | ± 3.2% | 5% | 8% | 10% | 3% | 5% | 4% | 5% | 160% |
| Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Generic Democrat | Generic Republican | Generic Third Party | Undecided | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan | October 29–30, 2020 | 745 (V) | ± 3.6% | 47% | 41% | 3% | 10% | ||
| Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan | September 30 – October 1, 2020 | 746 (V) | – | 40% | 38% | 4% | 19% | ||
| Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan | August 28–29, 2020 | 897 (V) | – | 41% | 37% | 4% | 18% | ||
| Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan | June 26–27, 2020 | 1,237 (V) | – | 38% | 37% | – | 25% |
See main article: 2020 Michigan Proposal 1 and 2020 Michigan Proposal 2. There were two statewide legislatively referred constitutional amendments on the ballot for the general election:[12]