Voters in Michigan elected one member to the U.S. Senate on November 6, 2018.

The election filled the Class 1 Senate seat held by incumbent Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D), who was first elected in 2000. She faced Army veteran John James (R) in the general election.

Polls

Campaign finance

The chart below contains data from financial reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission.

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Debbie Stabenow	Democratic Party	$13,467,045	$14,887,956	$1,782,307	As of December 31, 2018
John James	Republican Party	$12,551,467	$12,043,512	$507,955	As of December 31, 2018
George Huffman III	U.S. Taxpayers Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available
John Howard Wilhelm	Natural Law Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available
Marcia Squier	Green Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2018. * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

Election history

2014

U.S. Senate, Michigan General Election, 2014

Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Gary Peters	54.6%	1,704,936
	Republican	Terri Lynn Land	41.3%	1,290,199
	Libertarian	Jim Fulner	2%	62,897
	Green	Richard Matkin	0.8%	26,137
	U.S. Taxpayers Party	Chris Wahmhoff	1.2%	37,529
Total Votes			3,121,698
Source: Michigan Secretary of State

2012

U.S. Senate, Michigan General Election, 2012

Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Debbie Stabenow Incumbent	58.8%	2,735,826
	Republican	Pete Hoekstra	38%	1,767,386
	Libertarian	Scotty Boman	1.8%	84,480
	Green	Harley Mikkelson	0.6%	27,890
	UST	Richard Matkin	0.6%	26,038
	NLP	John Litle	0.2%	11,229
Total Votes			4,652,849
Source: Michigan Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election"

Demographics

Demographic data for Michigan

	Michigan	U.S.
Total population:	9,917,715	316,515,021
Land area (sq mi):	56,539	3,531,905
Gender
Female:	50.9%	50.8%
Race and ethnicity**
White:	79%	73.6%
Black/African American:	14%	12.6%
Asian:	2.7%	5.1%
Native American:	0.5%	0.8%
Pacific Islander:	0%	0.2%
Two or more:	2.6%	3%
Hispanic/Latino:	4.7%	17.1%
Education
High school graduation rate:	89.6%	86.7%
College graduation rate:	26.9%	29.8%
Income
Median household income:	$49,576	$53,889
Persons below poverty level:	20%	11.3%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015) for more information on the 2020 census and here for more on its impact on the redistricting process in Michigan.