2020 Michigan elections

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.

Federal offices

President of the United States

The nominees for the presidential election were Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Jo Jorgensen.

United States Senate

ran against John James, in addition to Marcia Squier, Doug Dern, and Valerie Willis.

United States House of Representatives

Michigan voters elected 14 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives in the general election, one from each of the 14 congressional districts.

District	Democratic nominee	Republican nominee	Libertarian nominee	Green nominee	U.S. Taxpayers nominee	Working Class nominee
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

State offices

State executive offices

Eight state executive offices were open for election in Michigan's general election, including State Board of Education, University of Michigan Board of Regents, Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and Wayne State University Board of Governors.

State House of Representatives

110 seats in Michigan's House were up for election in the general election. The Michigan Republican Party retained control of the chamber.

Supreme Court

Two of seven seats on the Michigan Supreme Court were up for election, and one was open after an incumbent retired. Supreme Court Justice Bridget McCormack ran for reelection. Each voter could select up to two candidates in the state Supreme Court general election; the top two vote-getters would win the seats.

Candidates

Susan Hubbard, judge of the Third Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan
Mary Kelly, St. Clair County prosecutor
Bridget Mary McCormack, incumbent chief justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan
Kerry Lee Morgan, private practice attorney
Katie Nepton, attorney
Brock Swartzle, incumbent Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals for the 4th District
Elizabeth Welch, employment lawyer
Polling

Poll source	Date administered	Sample size	Margin of error	Generic Democrat	Generic Republican	Generic Third Party	Undecided
Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan	October 29–30, 2020	745	± 3.6%	47%	41%	3%	10%
Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan	September 30 – October 1, 2020	746	–	40%	38%	4%	19%
Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan	August 28–29, 2020	897	–	41%	37%	4%	18%
Public Policy Polling/Progress Michigan	June 26–27, 2020	1,237	–	38%	37%	–	25%

Results

Ballot measures

There were two statewide legislatively referred constitutional amendments on the ballot for the general election:

Proposal 1, Use of State and Local Park Funds Amendment: Revises formula for how state and local park funds from trusts can be spent
Proposal 2, Search Warrant for Electronic Data Amendment: Requires search warrant to access a person's electronic data