Michigan
Governor
Open seat · Four-year term

Jocelyn BensonDemocratic 
John JamesRepublican
Also on the ballot: Donna Brandenburg (U.S. Taxpayers), Douglas Campbell (Green), Anthony Hudson (Libertarian)
Official roster verified · Reviewed
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Michigan
· General election · Six-year Class II term beginning January 3, 2027


Shown in surname order. Complete record, including write-ins and withdrawals ↓ · Photo credits ↓
Every candidate in the reviewed official scope, in surname order, including declared write-ins and withdrawn or removed entries when the source lists them.
Libertarian
Democratic
Natural Law
U.S. Taxpayers
Green
Republican
Photographs identify candidates and do not imply endorsement. A photograph is shown only when it is linked to the same person through reviewed identity evidence; officeholder portraits are reused by person identity, never by office. Historical photographs keep their original dates. Every other candidate shows initials and “Photo unavailable”.
Kenneth C. Zirkel / Wikimedia Commons · 2025-02-03 12:37:22
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Resized and converted to WebP; original proportions retained. The interface displays a 4:5 crop. Existing source crops, where applicable, are retained; no retouching. The derivative is distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviewed 2026-10-20.
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United States Congress / Wikimedia Commons · circa 2005 · Historical photograph
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Official candidate record · Reviewed 2026-10-31 · Published date not supplied
November 3 general candidate listing. Blank status denotes a listed candidate; DISQ entries are retained separately. This review covers the published roster, not a guarantee of every later write-in declaration.
Seat evidence · Reviewed 2026-10-20 · Published 2025-01-28
Reports Peters announcing he will not seek a third term. Reviewed alongside the official 2026 roster, which does not list the serving class-II senator.
Seat evidence · Reviewed 2026-10-31 · Published date not supplied
Lists Gary C. Peters (D-MI) as the current Class II senator for Michigan, matching the repository Congress snapshot (Bioguide P000595). Seat status compares this officeholder with the official candidate record.
Race cards picture one Democratic and one Republican nominee, at equal size, when the official general-election ballot list includes exactly one of each; they appear in the official statewide ballot order where a source publishes one, and otherwise in surname order. Other contests (no Democratic or Republican nominee, top-four registration labels, an unverified ballot listing or no verified roster) picture the first four ballot candidates by surname. Every other ballot candidate is named on the card, and this page lists everyone in the reviewed record, including write-ins and withdrawn or removed candidates. No candidate is shown or omitted on judgments of competitiveness, and the display does not predict results.
Michigan
Open seat · Four-year term


Also on the ballot: Donna Brandenburg (U.S. Taxpayers), Douglas Campbell (Green), Anthony Hudson (Libertarian)
Official roster verified · Reviewed
Michigan
Seat status unverified

Also on the ballot: Shane Dedrick (Green)
Official roster verified · Reviewed