Michigan's 12th Senate district

Michigan's 12th State Senate district
Senator	Kevin Hertel D – St. Clair Shores
Demographics	70%  White 15%  Black 7%  Hispanic 5%  Asian 3% Other
Population (2018)	268,885 [1]

Michigan's 12th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. The 12th district was created by the 1850 Michigan Constitution, as the 1835 constitution only permitted a maximum of eight senate districts. ^{[2] [3]} It has been represented by Democrat Kevin Hertel since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Rosemary Bayer. ^{[4] [5]}

Geography

District 12 encompasses parts of Macomb, St. Clair, and Wayne counties. ^[6]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 12, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered much of central Oakland County in the northern suburbs of Detroit, including Pontiac, Southfield Township, Bloomfield Township, Auburn Hills, Keego Harbor, Orion Township, Oakland Township, Addison Township, Oxford Township, and Independence Township. ^[7]

The district overlapped with Michigan's 8th, 9th, 11th, and 14th congressional districts, and with the 29th, 35th, 40th, 43rd, 45th, and 46th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives. ^[8]

List of senators

Senator	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
Moses A. McNaughton		Free Soil	1853–1854	Jackson	[9] [10]
Austin Blair		Republican	1855–1856	Jackson	[9] [11]
Joseph E. Beebe		Republican	1857–1858	Jackson	[9] [12]
Ira C. Backus		Republican	1859–1860	Jackson	[9] [13]
Charles V. DeLand		Republican	1861–1862	Jackson	[9] [14]
Townsend E. Gidley		Democratic	1863–1864	Parma	Elected on a Fusionist ticket. [9] [15] [16]
Richard J. Crego		Republican	1865–1866	Brooklyn	[9] [17]
George A. Smith		Republican	1867–1868	Somerset	[9] [18]
Ezra L. Koon		Republican	1869–1870	Hillsdale	[9] [19]
William R. Stoddard		Republican	1871–1872	Litchfield	[9] [20]
Levi Sparks		Republican	1873–1874	Buchanan	[9] [21]
Francis H. Berrick		Democratic	1875–1876	Buchanan	[9] [22]
William O. Packard		Republican	1877–1878	Covert	[9] [23]
James M. Shepard		Republican	1879–1880	Cassopolis	[9] [24]
Henry Ford		Republican	1881–1882	Lawton	[9] [25]
Charles J. Monroe		Republican	1883–1886	South Haven	[9] [26]
John Holbrook		Republican	1887–1890	Lansing	[9] [27]
Marcus Wilcox		Democratic	1891–1892	Corunna	Endorsed by both the Democrats and the Patrons of Industry. [lower-alpha 1] [9] [28] [29] [30]
Harvey Mellen		Democratic	1893–1894	Romeo	[9] [31]
Fred M. Warner		Republican	1895–1898	Farmington	[9] [32]
George B. Davis		Republican	1899–1900	Utica	[9] [33]
Jerome W. Nims		Republican	1901–1902	Romeo	[9] [34]
I. Roy Waterbury		Republican	1903–1904	Highland Station	[9] [35]
Thaddeus D. Seeley		Republican	1905–1908	Pontiac	[9] [36]
Frank T. Newton		Republican	1909–1912	Ypsilanti	[9] [37]
James E. McGregor		Democratic	1913–1914	Pontiac	[9] [38]
Frank L. Covert		Republican	1915–1918	Pontiac	[9] [39]
George W. Millen		Republican	1919–1920	Ann Arbor	[9] [40]
Charles A. Sink		Republican	1921–1922	Ann Arbor	[9] [41]
Andrew B. Glaspie		Republican	1923–1924	Oxford	[9] [42]
Elijah B. Howarth Jr.		Republican	1925–1926	Royal Oak	[9] [43]
Charles A. Sink		Republican	1927–1930	Ann Arbor	[9] [41]
James E. Lawson		Republican	1931–1932	Royal Oak	[9] [44]
Andrew L. Moore		Republican	1933–1935	Pontiac	Died in office. [9] [45]
George P. McCallum		Republican	1937–1944	Ann Arbor	[9] [46]
George N. Higgins		Republican	1945–1946	Ferndale	[9] [47]
Edgar F. Down		Republican	1947–1948	Pleasant Ridge	[9] [48]
George N. Higgins		Republican	1949–1954	Ferndale	[9] [47]
William Broomfield		Republican	1955–1956	Royal Oak	[9] [49]
L. Harvey Lodge		Republican	1957–1960	Waterford Township	[9] [50]
Farrell E. Roberts		Republican	1961–1964	Pontiac	[9] [51]
Edward J. Robinson		Democratic	1965–1966	Dearborn	[9] [52]
N. Lorraine Beebe		Republican	1967–1970	Dearborn	[9] [53]
David Plawecki		Democratic	1971–1982	Dearborn Heights	[9] [54]
William Faust		Democratic	1983–1994	Westland	[9] [55]
Doug Carl		Republican	1995–1997	Mount Clemens	Died in office. [9] [56]
David Jaye		Republican	1998–2001	Utica	Expelled. [9] [57]
Alan Sanborn		Republican	2001–2002	Richmond	[9] [58]
Mike Bishop		Republican	2003–2010	Rochester	[9] [59]
Jim Marleau		Republican	2011–2018	Lake Orion	[9] [60]
Rosemary Bayer		Democratic	2019–2022	Beverly Hills	[9] [61]
Kevin Hertel		Democratic	2023–present	St. Clair Shores	[62]

Recent election results

2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 12 ^[63]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Michael McCready	12,524	45.4
	Republican	Jim Tedder	12,239	44.3
	Republican	Terry Whitney	2,073	7.5
	Republican	Vernon Molnar	770	2.8
Total votes			27,606	100
General election
	Democratic	Rosemary Bayer	59,302	49.4
	Republican	Michael McCready	58,363	48.6
	Libertarian	Jeff Pittel	2,404	2.0
Total votes			120,071	100
	Democratic gain from Republican

2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 12 ^[63]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jim Marleau (incumbent)	14,617	71.3
	Republican	Bob Gray	5,873	28.7
Total votes			20,490	100
	Democratic	Paul Secrest	7,649	68.4
	Democratic	Kenneth VanNorwick	3,540	31.6
Total votes			11,189	100
General election
	Republican	Jim Marleau (incumbent)	50,117	57.5
	Democratic	Paul Secrest	37,067	42.5
Total votes			87,184	100
	Republican hold

Federal and statewide results

Year	Office	Results [64]
2020	President	Biden 52.2 – 46.3%
2018	Senate	Stabenow 50.6 – 48.0%
	Governor	Whitmer 52.0 – 45.7%
2016	President	Trump 47.9 – 47.4%
2014	Senate	Peters 50.1 – 46.5%
	Governor	Snyder 60.5 – 37.9%
2012	President	Romney 49.9 – 49.4%
	Senate	Stabenow 52.7 – 44.2%

Historical district boundaries

Map	Description	Apportionment Plan	Notes
	Wayne County (part) Dearborn (part) Dearborn Heights (part) Inkster (part) Redford Township	1964 Apportionment Plan	[65]
	Wayne County (part) Allen Park (part) Dearborn Heights Inkster Southgate Taylor (part)	1972 Apportionment Plan	[66]
	Wayne County (part) Belleville Flat Rock Huron Township Romulus Sumpter Township Taylor Van Buren Township Wayne Westland	1982 Apportionment Plan	[67]
	Macomb County (part) Armada Township Bruce Township Fraser Macomb Township Memphis Ray Township Richmond Township Shelby Township Sterling Heights Utica Washington Township	1992 Apportionment Plan	[68]
	Oakland County (part) Addison Township Auburn Hills Clarkston Independence Township Keego Harbor Lake Angelus Oakland Township Orion Township Oxford Township Pontiac Rochester Rochester Hills Sylvan Lake West Bloomfield Township (part)	2001 Apportionment Plan	[69]
	Oakland County (part) Addison Township Auburn Hills Bloomfield Township Clarkston Independence Township Keego Harbor Oakland Township Orion Township Oxford Township Pontiac Southfield Township Sylvan Lake	2011 Apportionment Plan	[70]

Notes

1. The Patrons of Industry were a farming organization founded in Port Huron, Michigan which, by 1890, had begun participating in political action independent of other political parties at the state level.

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