Michigan's 6th Senate district

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Michigan's 6th
State Senate district
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Senator
  Mary Cavanagh
D – Redford Township
Demographics45%  White
41%  Black
3%  Hispanic
5%  Asian
1% Other
4%  Multiracial
Population (2022)258,801
Notes [1]

Michigan's 6th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Mary Cavanagh since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Erika Geiss. [2] [3]

Contents

Geography

District 6 encompasses parts of Oakland and Wayne counties. [4]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 6, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered much of Downriver to the southwest of Detroit in Wayne County, including the suburban communities of Westland, Taylor, Romulus, Rockwood, Flat Rock, Huron, Sumpter, Van Buren, Belleville, and most of Brownstown. [5]

The district was split between Michigan's 12th and 13th congressional districts, and with the 11th, 12th, 16th, 17th, 21st, and 23rd districts of the Michigan House of Representatives. [6]

List of senators

SenatorPartyDatesResidenceNotes
James Wright Gordon Whig 1839 Marshall [7] [8]
Sands McCamly Democratic 1839–1840 Battle Creek [7] [9] [10]
Henry P. Bridge Democratic 1840–1841 Kent [7] [11]
David E. Deming Whig 1841 Kalamazoo [7] [12]
Stephen V. R. Trowbridge Whig 1842 Birmingham [7] [13]
Daniel B. Wakefield Democratic 1842–1843 Grand Blanc [7] [14]
Isaac Wixom Democratic 1842–1843 Farmington [7] [15]
Sanford M. Green Democratic 1843–1844 Pontiac Moved from Owosso to Pontiac in 1843. [7] [16] [17]
Johnson Niles Democratic 1844–1845 Troy [7] [18]
Alvin N. Hart Democratic 1844–1845 Lapeer [7] [19]
Gardner D. Williams Democratic 1845–1846 Saginaw [7] [20]
Sanford M. Green Democratic 1846–1847 Pontiac [7] [16] [17]
William M. Fenton Democratic 1846–1847 Flint Resided in Fentonville in 1846. [7] [21]
Elijah B. Witherbee Whig 1847 Flint Died in office. [7] [22] [23]
Andrew Parsons Democratic 1847–1848 Corunna [7] [24]
Alvin N. Hart Democratic 1847–1850 Lapeer Initially elected to fill the vacancy left by Elijah B. Witherbee's death. [7] [19] [25]
James McCabe Democratic 1848–1849 Pontiac [7] [26] [27]
Edward H. Thomson Democratic 1848–1849 Flint [7] [28]
Johnathan P. King Democratic 1849–1850 Mackinac County [7] [29]
Thorton F. Brodhead Democratic 1850 Pontiac [7] [30]
Noah Beach Democratic 1850–1852 Bridegeport [7] [31] [32]
Elijah J. Roberts Democratic 1851 Eagle River Died in office. [7] [33] [32]
Samuel Axford Democratic 1851–1852 Oxford [7] [34]
John P. LeRoy Whig 1851–1852 Pontiac [7] [35]
The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district. [36] [37]
Henry Hall Democratic 1853–1854 Dexter [7] [38]
Charles Tripp Republican 1855–1856 Ann Arbor [7] [39]
Willard B. Arms Republican 1857–1858 White Lake [7] [40]
James M. Hoyt Democratic 1859–1860 Walled Lake [7] [41]
John G. Owen Republican 1861–1862 Clarkston [7] [42]
Peter Dow Republican 1863–1864 Pontiac [7] [43]
John G. Crawford Republican 1865–1866 Holly [7] [44]
James Webster Childs Republican 1867–1868 Ypsilanti [7] [45] [46]
Lyman D. Norris Democratic 1869–1870 Ypsilanti [7] [47] [48]
Emanuel Mann Republican 1871–1872 Ann Arbor [7] [49]
Charles E. Mickley Republican 1873–1874 Fairfield Township [7] [50]
John K. Boies Republican 1875–1876 Hudson [7] [51]
Roland B. C. Newcomb Republican 1877–1878 Blissfield [7] [52]
Richard B. Robbins Republican 1879–1880 Adrian [7] [53]
Brackley Shaw Republican 1881–1884 Clayton [7] [54]
Manson Carpenter Republican 1885–1886 Lenawee County [7] [55]
John C. Sharp Republican 1887–1888 Jackson [7] [56]
Adelbert R. Chapman Republican 1889–1890 Reading [7] [57]
William H. Withington Republican 1891–1892 Jackson [7] [58]
Marden Sabin Republican 1893–1894 Centreville [7] [59]
Oscar A. Janes Republican 1895–1896 Hillsdale [7] [60]
Edward E. Bostwick Democratic 1897–1898 Union City Elected on a Democratic, Populist, and Silverite fusion ticket. [7] [61]
Frank A. Lyon Republican 1899–1900 Hillsdale [7] [62]
William H. Lockerby Republican 1901–1904 Quincy [7] [63]
Edward B. Linsley Republican 1905–1908 Three Rivers [7] [64]
Walter R. Taylor Republican 1909–1912 Kalamazoo [7] [65]
William C. Grace Democratic 1913–1914 Kalamazoo [7] [66]
Walter R. Taylor Republican 1915–1916 Kalamazoo [7] [65]
Frank L. Willison Democratic 1917–1918 Climax [7] [67]
J. Mark Harvey Republican 1919–1920 Constantine [7] [68]
Donald C. Osborn Republican 1921–1924 Kalamazoo [7] [69]
Frank S. Cummings Republican 1925–1928 Centreville [7] [70]
James T. Upjohn Republican 1929–1934 Kalamazoo [7] [71]
Miller Dunckel Republican 1935–1938 Three Rivers [7] [72]
Carl F. DeLano Republican 1939–1945 Kalamazoo Resigned. [7] [73]
John W. Fletcher Republican 1945–1948 Centreville [7] [74]
Carlton H. Morris Republican 1949–1962 Kalamazoo [7] [75]
Garry E. Brown Republican 1963–1964 Schoolcraft [7] [76]
Basil W. Brown Democratic 1965–1974 Detroit [7] [77]
Michael J. O'Brien Jr. Democratic 1975–1982 Detroit [7] [78]
R. Robert Geake Republican 1983–1994 Northville [7] [79]
George Z. Hart Democratic 1995–2002 Dearborn [7] [80]
Laura M. Toy Republican 2003–2006 Livonia [7] [81]
Glenn S. Anderson Democratic 2007–2014 Westland [7] [82]
Hoon-Yung Hopgood Democratic 2015–2018 Taylor [7] [83]
Erika Geiss Democratic 2019–2022 Taylor [84]
Mary Cavanagh Democratic 2023–present Redford Township [85]

Recent election results

2022

2022 Michigan Senate election, District 6 [86]
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Mary Cavanagh 14,908 43.9
Democratic Vicki Barnett 12,15835.8
Democratic Darryl D. Brown6,86520.2
Write-in Candidate Betty Jean Alexander 80.02
Total votes33,939 100
General election
Democratic Mary Cavanagh 74,122 68.0
Republican Ken Crider31,46328.9
Working Class Kimberly Givens3,3963.1
Total votes108,981 100
Democratic hold

2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 6 [86]
Primary election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Erika Geiss 19,596 65.4
Democratic Robert Kosowski 10,35934.6
Total votes29,955 100
General election
Democratic Erika Geiss 60,789 61.3
Republican Brenda Jones38,30138.7
Total votes99,090 100
Democratic hold

2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 6 [86]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Hoon-Yung Hopgood (incumbent) 42,835 62.3
Republican Darrell McNeill25,91937.7
Total votes68,754 100
Democratic hold

Federal and statewide results

YearOfficeResults [87]
2020 President Biden 55.2 – 43.3%
2018 Senate Stabenow 59.7 – 38.1%
Governor Whitmer 60.9 – 36.0%
2016 President Clinton 53.2 – 42.2%
2014 Senate Peters 64.6 – 30.4%
Governor Schauer 57.3 – 40.3%
2012 President Obama 64.3 – 34.8%
Senate Stabenow 69.6 – 26.7%

Historical district boundaries

MapDescriptionApportionment PlanNotes
1964 Apportionment Plan [88]
1972 Apportionment Plan [89]
1982 Apportionment Plan [90]
1992 Apportionment Plan [91]
2001 Apportionment Plan [92]
Michigan Senate District 6 (2010).png 2011 Apportionment Plan [93]

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  19. 1 2 "Legislator Details - Alvin N. Hart". Library of Michigan . Retrieved October 19, 2023.
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