However, contrary to polling data, Donald Trump flipped Michigan back into the Republican column, defeating Kamala Harris by 1.4 percentage points.

The primary was held on February 27, 2024, and awarded a small amount of delegates to former president Donald Trump, who won in a landslide, and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.

[5] The following candidates had qualified for the general election ballot:[11] On April 18, 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was nominated by Michigan's Natural Law Party.

[12] Despite suspending his campaign on August 23 and legal attempts to withdraw himself, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that his name would remain on the ballot.

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Notably, Trump became the first Republican to win a plurality of the vote in Dearborn, home to a large Arab-American community, since 2000.

Though Harris carried Wayne County, her share of the vote was significantly poorer than Biden's had been in 2020, as it swung toward Trump by 9.2%.

She similarly ceded ground across the state as a whole, earning a smaller percentage of the vote than Biden did in 2020 in all but seven counties, mostly concentrated in northwestern areas of the Lower Peninsula.

[250] Green Party candidate Stein did the best in Wayne County with 2.4% of the vote, likely owing to communities such as Dearborn and Hamtramck.