The 2010

Michigan Senate The Michigan Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. Along with the Michigan House of Representatives, it composes the state legislature, which has powers, roles and duties defined by Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, ado ...

elections were held on November 2 of that year, with partisan primaries to determine each party's nominees on August 3. The election was the last contested under constituency boundaries drawn as a result of the

2000 U.S. Census The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 cen ...

, and members served in the 96th and 97th Legislatures.

Term-limited Senators

State Senators are only allowed to serve two four-year terms, a maximum of eight years. The following Senators were not eligible to run for a new term in 2010: * Sen. Jim Barcia (D-31st District)

Candidates and results

District 1-9

Districts 10-19

Districts 20-29

Districts 30-38

27th District by-election

State Senator John Gleason resigned his seat to accept election as the Genesee County Clerk. This triggered a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

, which was held May 7, 2013. Jim Ananich won the special election with 75.27% of the vote.

References

Gongwer News Service: 2010 General Election—Michigan Senate
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November 2010 events in the United States