State: | Michigan |
District: | 6 |
Chamber: | Senate |
Representative: | Mary Cavanagh |
Party: | Democratic |
Residence: | Redford Township |
Percent White: | 72 |
Percent Black: | 18 |
Percent Hispanic: | 4 |
Percent Asian: | 3 |
Percent Other Race: | 2 |
Population: | 263,512[1] |
Population Year: | 2018 |
Michigan's 6th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Mary Cavanagh since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Erika Geiss.[2] [3]
District 6 encompasses parts of Oakland and Wayne counties.[4]
District 6, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered much of Downriver to the southwest of Detroit in Wayne County, including the suburban communities of Westland, Taylor, Romulus, Rockwood, Flat Rock, Huron, Sumpter, Van Buren, Belleville, and most of Brownstown.[5]
The district was split between Michigan's 12th and 13th congressional districts, and with the 11th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 21st, and 23rd districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.[6]
Senator | Party | Dates | Residence | Notes | |||
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James Wright Gordon | bgcolor= | Whig | 1839 | Marshall | [7] | ||
Sands McCamly | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1839–1840 | Battle Creek | [8] [9] | ||
Henry P. Bridge | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1840–1841 | Kent | [10] | ||
David E. Deming | bgcolor= | Whig | 1841 | Kalamazoo | [11] | ||
Stephen V. R. Trowbridge | bgcolor= | Whig | 1842 | Birmingham | [12] | ||
Daniel B. Wakefield | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1842–1843 | Grand Blanc | [13] | ||
Isaac Wixom | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1842–1843 | Farmington | [14] | ||
Sanford M. Green | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1843–1844 | Pontiac | Moved from Owosso to Pontiac in 1843.[15] | ||
Johnson Niles | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1844–1845 | Troy | [16] | ||
Alvin N. Hart | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1844–1845 | Lapeer | |||
Gardner D. Williams | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1845–1846 | Saginaw | [17] | ||
Sanford M. Green | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1846–1847 | Pontiac | [18] | ||
William M. Fenton | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1846–1847 | Flint | Resided in Fentonville in 1846.[19] | ||
Elijah B. Witherbee | bgcolor= | Whig | 1847 | Flint | Died in office.[20] [21] | ||
Andrew Parsons | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1847–1848 | Corunna | [22] | ||
Alvin N. Hart | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1847–1850 | Lapeer | Initially elected to fill the vacancy left by Elijah B. Witherbee's death.[23] | ||
James McCabe | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1848–1849 | Pontiac | [24] [25] | ||
Edward H. Thomson | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1848–1849 | Flint | [26] | ||
Johnathan P. King | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1849–1850 | Mackinac County | [27] | ||
Thorton F. Brodhead | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1850 | Pontiac | [28] | ||
Noah Beach | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1850–1852 | Bridegeport | [29] | ||
Elijah J. Roberts | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1851 | Eagle River | Died in office.[30] [31] | ||
Samuel Axford | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1851–1852 | Oxford | [32] | ||
John P. LeRoy | bgcolor= | Whig | 1851–1852 | Pontiac | [33] | ||
The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district.[34] [35] | |||||||
Henry Hall | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1853–1854 | Dexter | [36] | ||
Charles Tripp | bgcolor= | Republican | 1855–1856 | Ann Arbor | [37] | ||
Willard B. Arms | bgcolor= | Republican | 1857–1858 | White Lake | [38] | ||
James M. Hoyt | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1859–1860 | Walled Lake | [39] | ||
John G. Owen | bgcolor= | Republican | 1861–1862 | Clarkston | [40] | ||
Peter Dow | bgcolor= | Republican | 1863–1864 | Pontiac | [41] | ||
John G. Crawford | bgcolor= | Republican | 1865–1866 | Holly | [42] | ||
James Webster Childs | bgcolor= | Republican | 1867–1868 | Ypsilanti | [43] [44] | ||
Lyman D. Norris | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1869–1870 | Ypsilanti | [45] [46] | ||
Emanuel Mann | bgcolor= | Republican | 1871–1872 | Ann Arbor | [47] | ||
Charles E. Mickley | bgcolor= | Republican | 1873–1874 | Fairfield Township | [48] | ||
John K. Boies | bgcolor= | Republican | 1875–1876 | Hudson | [49] | ||
Roland B. C. Newcomb | bgcolor= | Republican | 1877–1878 | Blissfield | [50] | ||
Richard B. Robbins | bgcolor= | Republican | 1879–1880 | Adrian | [51] | ||
Brackley Shaw | bgcolor= | Republican | 1881–1884 | Clayton | [52] | ||
Manson Carpenter | bgcolor= | Republican | 1885–1886 | Lenawee County | [53] | ||
John C. Sharp | bgcolor= | Republican | 1887–1888 | Jackson | [54] | ||
Adelbert R. Chapman | bgcolor= | Republican | 1889–1890 | Reading | [55] | ||
William H. Withington | bgcolor= | Republican | 1891–1892 | Jackson | [56] | ||
Marden Sabin | bgcolor= | Republican | 1893–1894 | Centreville | [57] | ||
Oscar A. Janes | bgcolor= | Republican | 1895–1896 | Hillsdale | [58] | ||
Edward E. Bostwick | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1897–1898 | Union City | Elected on a Democratic, Populist, and Silverite fusion ticket.[59] | ||
Frank A. Lyon | bgcolor= | Republican | 1899–1900 | Hillsdale | [60] | ||
William H. Lockerby | bgcolor= | Republican | 1901–1904 | Quincy | [61] | ||
Edward B. Linsley | bgcolor= | Republican | 1905–1908 | Three Rivers | [62] | ||
Walter R. Taylor | bgcolor= | Republican | 1909–1912 | Kalamazoo | |||
William C. Grace | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1913–1914 | Kalamazoo | [63] | ||
Walter R. Taylor | bgcolor= | Republican | 1915–1916 | Kalamazoo | [64] | ||
Frank L. Willison | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1917–1918 | Climax | [65] | ||
J. Mark Harvey | bgcolor= | Republican | 1919–1920 | Constantine | [66] | ||
Donald C. Osborn | bgcolor= | Republican | 1921–1924 | Kalamazoo | [67] | ||
Frank S. Cummings | bgcolor= | Republican | 1925–1928 | Centreville | [68] | ||
James T. Upjohn | bgcolor= | Republican | 1929–1934 | Kalamazoo | [69] | ||
Miller Dunckel | bgcolor= | Republican | 1935–1938 | Three Rivers | [70] | ||
Carl F. DeLano | bgcolor= | Republican | 1939–1945 | Kalamazoo | Resigned.[71] | ||
John W. Fletcher | bgcolor= | Republican | 1945–1948 | Centreville | [72] | ||
Carlton H. Morris | bgcolor= | Republican | 1949–1962 | Kalamazoo | [73] | ||
Garry E. Brown | bgcolor= | Republican | 1963–1964 | Schoolcraft | [74] | ||
Basil W. Brown | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1965–1974 | Detroit | [75] | ||
Michael J. O'Brien Jr. | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1975–1982 | Detroit | [76] | ||
R. Robert Geake | bgcolor= | Republican | 1983–1994 | Northville | [77] | ||
George Z. Hart | bgcolor= | Democratic | 1995–2002 | Dearborn | [78] | ||
Laura M. Toy | bgcolor= | Republican | 2003–2006 | Livonia | [79] | ||
Glenn S. Anderson | bgcolor= | Democratic | 2007–2014 | Westland | [80] | ||
Hoon-Yung Hopgood | bgcolor= | Democratic | 2015–2018 | Taylor | [81] [82] | ||
Erika Geiss | bgcolor= | Democratic | 2019–2022 | Taylor | [83] | ||
Mary Cavanagh | bgcolor= | Democratic | 2023–present | Redford Township | [84] |
Year | Office | Results[85] |
---|---|---|
2020 | President | Biden 55.2 – 43.3% |
2018 | Senate | Stabenow 59.7 – 38.1% |
Governor | Whitmer 60.9 – 36.0% | |
2016 | President | Clinton 53.2 – 42.2% |
2014 | Senate | Peters 64.6 – 30.4% |
Governor | Schauer 57.3 – 40.3% | |
2012 | President | Obama 64.3 – 34.8% |
Senate | Stabenow 69.6 – 26.7% |
Map | Description | Apportionment Plan | Notes |
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| 1964 Apportionment Plan | [86] | |
| 1972 Apportionment Plan | [87] | |
1982 Apportionment Plan | [88] | ||
1992 Apportionment Plan | [89] | ||
2001 Apportionment Plan | [90] | ||
2011 Apportionment Plan | [91] | ||