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Michigan weighed in for this election as 0.1% more Republican than the national average. This was the last time Michigan voted Republican until Donald Trump's plurality win in 2016, and remains the last time that a Republican won a majority of the vote in the state.
Since its admission to statehood in 1837, Michigan has participated in every U.S. presidential election, although they did participate in the 1836 election and receive electoral votes. Michigan is tied with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for the longest active streak of voting for the winning candidate, last voting for a losing candidate in 2004 ...
Carl Levin was Michigan's longest-serving senator (1979–2015). Four Michigan senators have risen to the position of President pro tempore, and one (Thomas W. Ferry) served as President of the Senate from November 22, 1875 to March 3, 1877 (as acting Vice President of the United States). [1]
This made Michigan 2.33% more Republican than the nation-at-large. The state was the last to be called by most major news networks due to the close nature and the need to count provisional and absentee ballots; most networks declared Trump the winner of Michigan's electors three weeks after Election Day.
In 1988, Michigan would continue its run of voting more Republican than the nation, although this time only slightly more so, before turning blue for six elections straight in 1992. This is the last election where Michigan voted more Republican than Ohio or Tennessee.
LANSING — The last time Michigan had a Democratic trifecta during a lame-duck legislative session was 1934. That year, Michigan's longest-serving U.S. senator — the late Carl Levin — was ...
As of the 2020 presidential election, this remains the last time a Republican presidential candidate carried Wayne County, home of Michigan's most populous city, Detroit, [24] [25] and also the last time any presidential candidate won every single county in the state (which only previously occurred in 1904, 1908, and 1924).
For the second time in a few weeks, Republican voters in an early presidential primary contest state are faced with having two elections in the space of a few days. ... March 2, the Michigan ...