Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...
's 2nd Senate district is one of 38 districts in the
Michigan Senate. It has been represented by
Democrat
Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to:
Politics
*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
Sylvia Santana
Sylvia Anjel Santana[Michigan Committee Statement of Organization ...](_blank)
since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat
Adam Hollier
Adam Hollier is the director of the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency and was appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Hollier served in the Michigan Senate, representing the 2nd Senate district, serving Wayne County including Detroit, the Grosse Poin ...
.
Geography
District 2 encompasses part of
Wayne County.
2011 Apportionment Plan
District 2, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, was based in northern
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...
in
Wayne County, also covering the nearby communities of
Highland Park,
Hamtramck
Hamtramck ( ) is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 28,433. Hamtramck is surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a small portion that borders the fellow enclave city of Hi ...
,
Harper Woods
Harper Woods is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city had a population of 15,492 at the 2020 census.
Harper Woods is a northeastern suburb of Metro Detroit and shares its southern and western border with the city of Det ...
,
Grosse Pointe Woods,
Grosse Pointe Shores
Grosse Pointe Shores is a city in Macomb and Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,008 at the 2010 census.
Grosse Pointe Shores was incorporated as a village in 1911 and was part of Grosse Pointe Township in Wayne ...
,
Grosse Pointe Farms
Grosse Pointe Farms is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,479 at the 2010 census.
As part of the Grosse Pointe collection of cities, it is a northeastern city of Metro Detroit and shares a small wester ...
,
Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe refers to an affluent coastal area next to Detroit, Michigan, United States, that comprises five adjacent individual cities. From southwest to northeast, they are:
* Grosse Pointe Park
* Grosse Pointe
* Grosse Pointe Farms
* Grosse ...
, and
Grosse Pointe Park
Grosse Pointe Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 11,555 at the 2010 census.
Bordering on Detroit with frontage on southern Lake St. Clair, it is the southernmost of the Grosse Pointe suburbs. Gro ...
. It shared a water border with
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
along
Lake St. Clair.
The district overlapped with Michigan's
13th and
14th congressional districts, and with the
1st,
2nd,
3rd
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (d ...
,
4th,
5th,
6th, and
7th districts of the
Michigan House of Representatives.
Recent election results
2018
Following incumbent
Bert Johnson's resignation, a special election and a regular election were held concurrently in 2018; in the special election,
Adam Hollier
Adam Hollier is the director of the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency and was appointed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Hollier served in the Michigan Senate, representing the 2nd Senate district, serving Wayne County including Detroit, the Grosse Poin ...
won the primary against a similar slate of candidates and won the general election uncontested.
2014
Federal and statewide results in District 2
Historical district boundaries
References
{{Michigan State Senators
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Wayne County, Michigan