Michigan

MICHIGAN

18 Electoral Votes

Population
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Michigan Bureau of Elections)
Total Population, April 1, 2000            9,938,444
Voting Age Population, Nov. 2000        7,358,000
Total Registration, Nov. 2000              6,859,332
Michigan has: 83 counties.
Five largest counties: Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Kent, Genessee.
Five largest cities: Detroit, Grand Rapids, Warren, Flint, Lansing.

Government
Governor: John Engler (R) re-elected to a third term in 1998.
State Legislature: Michigan State Legislature House: 52D, 58R Senate: 15D, 23R
Local: Counties and Cities NACO Counties
U.S. House: 10D, 6R - 1. B.Stupak (D) | 2. P.Hoekstra (R) | 3. V.Ehlers (R) | 4. D.Camp (R) | 5. J.Barcia (D) | 6. F.Upton (R) | 8. D.Stabenow (D) | 9. D.Kildee (D) | 10. D.Bonior (D) | 11. J.Knollenberg (R) | 12. S.Levin (D) | 13. L.Rivers (D) | 14. J.Conyers (D) | 15. C.Kilpatrick (D) | 16. J.Dingell (D).
U.S. Senate: Spencer Abraham (R) up for re-election in 2000, Carl Levin (D) up for election in 2002.

Changes as of the November 2000 Elections
State Legislature: All 110 House seats, no Senate seats were up. No change in partisan balance -- House: 52D, 58R.
U.S. House: 9D, 7R, Republicans picked up the open 8th CD seat: 8. M.Rogers (R).
U.S. Senate: Debbie Stabenow (D) defeated incumbent Spencer Abraham (R) by 49.47% to 47.86%, gaining a plurality of 67,259 votes.

The Great Lakes State

State of Michigan
Bureau of Elections

Green Party of MI
Libertarian Party of MI
MI Democratic Party
MI Republican State Comm.
Natural Law Party of MI
Reform Party of MI
U.S. Taxpayers Party of MI

Detroit News
Detroit Free Press
Media (Newsp.)
Media (TV)

Politics1-MI

General Election -- Tuesday, November 7, 2000

Past Results
1996

Clinton (Dem.).....1,989,653	(51.69)
Dole (Rep.).........1,481,212	(38.48)
Perot (Ref.)............336,670	(8.75)
Others (4+w/ins)......41,309	(1.07)
Total........3,848,844

Overall 3,912,261 people voted out of 6,677,079 registered. The VAP was 7,072,000 for a turnout (% of VAP) of 55.3%.
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1992

Clinton (Dem.).....1,871,182	(43.77)
Bush (Rep.).........1,554,940	(36.38)
Perot (Ind.)............824,813	(19.30)
Others (4+w/ins)......23,738	(0.56)
Total........4,274,673

Overall 4,341,909 people voted out of 6,147,083 registered. The VAP was 6,947,000 for a turnout (% of VAP) of 62.5%.

Results
2000

Bush/Cheney (Rep.)	1,953,139	(46.15)
+Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)	2,170,418	(51.28)
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)	16,711	(0.39)
Hagelin/Goldhaber(NLP)	2,426	(0.06)
Phillips/Frazier (UST)	3,791	(0.09)
Nader/LaDuke (Grn.)	84,165	(1.99)
Buchanan (w/in)	1,851	(0.04)
Total........4,232,501

Total voters: 4,279,299
Turnout (% of VAP) was 58.2%

Notes:
The Democratic, Republican, Reform, Libertarian and Natural Law parties all retained ballot status from 1998. The US Taxpayers Party of Michigan and the Green Party of Michigan qualified by petitioning, submitting the required 30,272 valid signatures (1 percent of the total vote cast for governor in 1998) by July 20, 2000. No Reform Party nominee appeared on the ballot because competing factions submitted two sets of papers, one for Buchanan and one for Hagelin.

Overview
The battleground state of Michigan went to Gore by a plurality of 217,279 votes (5.13 percentage points). Bush carried 58 counties to 25 for Gore. Almost 40% of the total vote (39.8%) comes from the Detroit area (Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties). Gore piled up a plurality of 307,393 votes in Wayne county and narrowly won in Oakland and Macomb. As expected, Bush did well in Western Michigan (Kent County/Grand Rapids and the surrounding counties). He underperformed in the city of Detroit, and would have had to have done better in Western Wayne county as well as in Oakland and Macomb to carry the state.

A statewide school vouchers initiative, Proposal 1, was overwhelmingly defeated, 69.1% to 30.9%.

General Election Activity

In the U.S. Senate race, Rep. Debbie Stabenow (D) defeated incumbent Sen. Spencer Abraham (R) 49.47% to 47.86%, gaining a plurality of 67,259 votes (2,061,952 votes to 1,994,693 with 111,040 votes for five other candidates). In the 8th CD, Mike Rogers (R) defeated Dianne Byrum (D) by just 111 votes after the recount -- 48.79% to 48.75% (145,190 votes to 145,179 with 7,340 votes going to four other candidates).

State Primary: August 8, 2000.

Presidential Primary Results

Michigan Presidential Primary [PDF]
Total Registration, Jan. 24, 2000..... 6,721,947

Republicans

Presidential Primary
Tuesday Feb. 22, 2000

^.Open primary--ballot featured three party sections: Republican, Democratic and Reform. However, Gore and Bradley did not participate in the Democratic primary leaving a choice between Lyndon LaRouche and Uncommitted. The only Reform Party choices were Donald Trump and Uncommitted.

^.According to news accounts, independents and Democrats accounted for more than half of those voting in the Feb. 22 primary.

All counties reporting.

	Total Vote	Percent
Gary Bauer¹	2,733	0.21%
George W. Bush	549,665	43.05%
Steve Forbes¹	4,894	0.38%
Orrin Hatch¹	905	0.01%
Alan Keyes	59,032	4.62%
+John McCain	650,805	50.97%
Uncomm./Other	8,736	0.68%
Total	1,276,770

1. Candidate withdrew before primary but was on ballot.

Detailed Results

Total Delegates
58 of 2,066 (2.8%).

Delegate Allocation
Congressional District delegates 48
At-large delegates 10

The Feb. 22, 2000 Primary gave McCain 52 delegates and Bush 6. However, McCain ended up with substantially fewer delegates (see detailed results).

Democrats

Presidential Caucuses
Saturday March 11, 2000
unofficial vote totals as of March 11, 2000 6:56 pm

^.The Michigan Democratic Party arranged about 130 caucus locations around the state. Caucuses started at 11:00 am. More than 3,500 Democrats showed up in person. In addition, people could vote by mail for a number of reasons, and more than 80% of those participating in the caucuses did so.

^.In their initial delegate selection plan (April 9, 1999) Michigan Democrats had proposed to hold caucuses on Saturday February 12, 2000, ten days ahead of the New Hampshire primary, and to use vote by mail. However, the February date violated Rule 10A of the DNC's delegate selection rules.

	Total Vote	Percent
Bill Bradley¹	3,117	16.3%
+Al Gore	15,853	82.7%
Uncomm./Other	190	1.0%
Total	19,160

1. Sen. Bradley withdrew on March 9, 2000.

Total Pledged Delegates
129 of 3,537 (3.6%).
Total Delegates
156 of 4,335 (3.6%).

Delegates awarded based on the proportion of the votes candidate obtains in each of Michigan's 16 congressional districts; at least 15 percent of the vote required in a district.