[2] This left Michigan's U.S. House delegation in the 116th United States Congress with seven Democrats and seven Republicans until July 4, 2019, when Justin Amash of the 3rd Congressional District left the Republican Party to become an independent, shifting the balance of power in Michigan's House delegation to a Democratic plurality for the first time since 2011.
Results of the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan by district:[3] Jack Bergman Republican Jack Bergman Republican The 1st district consists of the entire Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the northern part of the Lower Peninsula including Alpena, Marquette, and Traverse City.
Instead, Morgan ran a write-in campaign, hoping to qualify for the ballot by winning at least five percent of the total votes cast in the district for the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
[6] According to official results, Democrats cast 29,293 write-in votes in the primary for Morgan, more than seven times the 3,781-vote threshold.
[7] Labor unions Organizations Individuals Bill Huizenga Republican Bill Huizenga Republican The 2nd district is located in West Michigan and is anchored by the suburbs of Grand Rapids such as Kentwood and Wyoming, other cities include Holland and Muskegon.
Labor unions Organizations Justin Amash Republican Justin Amash Republican The 3rd district is located in inland West Michigan, centered on the city of Grand Rapids, and extends down to Battle Creek and Marshall.
Labor unions John Moolenaar Republican John Moolenaar Republican The 4th district is located in Northern and Central Michigan including portions of the Tri-Cities region, specifically Midland, other cites include Mount Pleasant and the northern suburbs of Lansing.
Labor unions Dan Kildee Democratic Dan Kildee Democratic The 5th district is located along the eastern coast of Michigan, centered on the Tri-Cities region of Mid Michigan, such as Bay City and Saginaw, and stretches down into Flint.
[23] Michigan's 5th district was included on the initial list of Democratic held seats being targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2018.
The district is anchored by Kalamazoo and the surrounding areas including Benton Harbor and Niles.
[4] Michigan's 7th district was included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.
[38] Labor unions Organizations Mike Bishop Republican Elissa Slotkin Democratic The 8th district was centered on the state capital, Lansing, and stretches into the northern outskirts of Metro Detroit including Rochester Hills.
Michigan's 8th district had been included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.
[24] Labor unions Organizations Newspapers Paul Mitchell Republican Paul Mitchell Republican The 10th district is located in an area of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan known as The Thumb and parts of the Metro Detroit area including Chesterfield, Macomb, and Port Huron.
Labor unions Dave Trott Republican Haley Stevens Democratic The 11th district is located in Metro Detroit including Livonia, Novi, and Troy.
[4] Local officials Newspapers Michigan's 11th district was included on the initial list of Republican held seats being targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2018.
Representatives Organizations Newspapers Labor unions Organizations Newspapers Debbie Dingell Democratic Debbie Dingell Democratic The 12th district is based in Ann Arbor and the surrounding cities including Ypsilanti, and the western suburbs of Detroit including Dearborn and Lincoln Park.
Labor unions Newspapers Brenda Jones Democratic Rashida Tlaib Democratic The 13th district is located entirely within Wayne County and is centered on the city of the Detroit and the immediate surrounding suburbs including Dearborn Heights, Garden City, and Westland.
Tlaib, however, lost the special primary to Brenda Jones, president of the Detroit City Council.
Representatives Labor unions Organizations Newspapers Brenda Lawrence Democratic Brenda Lawrence Democratic The 14th district stretches from the northern Detroit suburbs including Farmington Hills, Southfield, and West Bloomfield, to eastern part of Detroit.