Michigan's 2nd Senate district

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Michigan's 2nd Senate district - Wikipedia

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Michigan's 2nd
State Senate district

Senator

Sylvia Santana
D–Detroit

Demographics

62% White
24% Black
8% Hispanic
1% Asian
1% Other
4% Multiracial

Population (2022)

257,528

Notes

^[1]

Michigan's 2nd Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Sylvia Santana since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Adam Hollier.^[2]^[3]

Geography

District 2 encompasses part of Wayne County.^[4]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 2, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, was based in northern Detroit in Wayne County, also covering the nearby communities of Highland Park, Hamtramck, Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Shores, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe, and Grosse Pointe Park.^[5] It shared a water border with Canada along Lake St. Clair.

The district overlapped with Michigan's 13th and 14th congressional districts, and with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.^[6]

List of senators

Senator		Dates	Residence	Notes
Laurent Durocher	Democratic	1835–1836	Monroe	^[7]^[8]^[9]
Edward D. Ellis	Democratic	1835–1837	Monroe	^[7]^[10]^[11]
Olmstead Hough	Democratic	1835–1837	Tecumseh	^[7]^[12]
Anthony McKey	Democratic	1837–1838	Deerfield	^[7]^[13]
Norman D. Curtis	Democratic	1838–1839	Monroe	^[7]^[14]
Warner Wing	Democratic	1838–1839	Monroe	^[7]^[15]
William L. Greenly	Democratic	1839–1840	Adrian	^[7]^[16]
John J. Adam	Democratic	1840–1841	Clinton	^[7]^[17]^[18]
Seba Murphy	Democratic	1840–1841	Monroe	^[7]^[19]
Elisha P. Champlin	Whig	1841	Jonesville	^[7]^[20]
Edward L. Fuller	Whig	1842	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[21]^[22]
James Kingsley	Democratic	1842	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[23]
Henry Compton	Democratic	1843–1844	Ypsilanti	^[7]^[24]
Robert Wilson	Democratic	1843–1844	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[25]^[26]
Edwin M. Cust	Democratic	1842–1845	Hamburg	^[7]^[27]
Charles P. Bush	Democratic	1846–1847	Genoa	^[7]^[28]
Henry B. Lathrop	Whig	1847	Jackson	^[7]^[29]
John Allen	Democratic	1845–1848	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[30]^[31]^[32]^[33]^[34]
Samuel Denton	Democratic	1845–1848	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[35]^[31]^[32]^[33]^[34]
William Finley Jr.	Democratic	1849–1850	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[36]^[37]
Dwight Webb	Democratic	1849–1850	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[38]
Nelson Gordon Isbell	Whig	1848–1852	Howell	^[7]^[39]
Michael Shoemaker	Democratic	1848–1852	Jackson County	^[7]^[40]
Barnabas Case	Democratic	1851–1852	Manchester	^[7]^[41]
George Danforth	Democratic	1851–1852	Ann Arbor	^[7]^[42]
The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district.^[43]^[44]
Alexander H. Stowell	Democratic	1853–1854	Detroit	^[7]^[45]
George Jerome	Republican	1855–1858	Detroit	^[7]^[46]
Henry Barnes	Republican	1859–1860	Detroit	^[7]^[47]
Henry P. Baldwin	Republican	1861–1862	Detroit	^[7]^[48]
William C. Duncan	Democratic	1863–1864	Detroit	^[7]^[49]
Joseph Godfrey	Democratic	1865–1866	Detroit	^[7]^[50]
Alanson Sheley	Republican	1867–1868	Detroit	^[7]^[51]
Lorenzo M. Mason	Democratic	1869–1870	Detroit	^[7]^[52]
Alanson Sheley	Republican	1871–1872	Detroit	^[7]^[51]
David M. Richardson	Republican	1873–1874	Detroit	^[7]^[53]
John Greusel	Republican	1875–1876	Detroit	^[7]^[54]
Theodore H. Hinchman	Democratic	1877–1878	Detroit	^[7]^[55]
Thomas W. Palmer	Republican	1879–1880	Detroit	^[7]^[56]
John Greusel	Republican	1881–1884	Detroit	^[7]^[54]
Thomas D. Hawley	Democratic	1885–1886	Detroit	^[7]^[57]
Calvin B. Crosby	Republican	1887–1888	Plymouth	^[7]^[58]
Theodore Rentz	Democratic	1889–1890	Detroit	^[7]^[59]
Joseph M. Weiss	Republican	1891–1894	Detroit	^[7]^[60]
William G. Thompson	Republican	1895–1898	Detroit	^[7]^[61]
Albert Stoll	Republican	1899–1900	Detroit	^[7]^[62]
James O. Murfin	Republican	1901–1902	Detroit	^[7]^[63]
Charles C. Simons	Republican	1903–1904	Detroit	^[7]^[64]
John Donald M. MacKay	Republican	1905–1908	Detroit	^[7]^[65]
Gustav A. Krueger	Republican	1909–1910	Detroit	^[7]^[66]
James A. Murtha	Democratic	1911–1918	Detroit	^[7]^[67]
Vincent M. Brennan	Republican	1919–1920	Detroit	^[7]^[68]
John W. Smith	Republican	1921–1922	Detroit	^[7]^[69]
Joseph Bahorski	Republican	1923–1926	Detroit	^[7]^[70]
Cass J. Jankowski	Republican	1927–1930	Detroit	Died in office.^[7]^[71]
George G. Sadowski	Democratic	1931–1932	Detroit	^[7]^[72]
Anthony J. Wilkowski	Democratic	1933–1938	Detroit	^[7]^[73]
Leo J. Wilkowski	Democratic	1939–1944	Detroit	^[7]^[74]
Anthony J. Wilkowski	Democratic	1945–1946	Detroit	^[7]^[73]
Joseph A. Brown	Democratic	1947–1948	Detroit	^[7]^[75]
Anthony J. Wilkowski	Democratic	1949–1950	Detroit	^[7]^[73]
Bristoe Bryant	Democratic	1951–1952	Detroit	^[7]^[76]
Cora M. Brown	Democratic	1953–1954	Detroit	^[7]^[77]
Stanley F. Rozycki	Democratic	1955–1964	Detroit	^[7]^[78]
Charles N. Youngblood Jr.	Democratic	1965–1974	Detroit	Resigned.^[7]^[79]
John C. Hertel	Democratic	1974–1982	Harper Woods	^[7]^[80]
Basil W. Brown	Democratic	1983–1988	Detroit	Resigned.^[7]^[81]
Virgil C. Smith	Democratic	1988–2000	Detroit	Resigned.^[7]^[82]
Martha G. Scott	Democratic	2001–2010	Detroit	^[7]^[83]
Bert Johnson	Democratic	2011–2018	Detroit	Resigned.^[7]^[84]
Adam Hollier	Democratic	2018–2022	Detroit	^[7]^[85]
Sylvia Santana	Democratic	2023–present	Detroit	^[86]

Recent election results

2018

Following incumbent Bert Johnson's resignation, a special election and a regular election were held concurrently in 2018; in the special election, Adam Hollier won the primary against a similar slate of candidates and won the general election uncontested.

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 2^[87]
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Adam Hollier	6,938	25.2
	Democratic	Abraham Aiyash	5,766	21.0
	Democratic	Brian Banks	4,725	17.2
	Democratic	Regina Williams	2,598	9.5
	Democratic	LaMar Lemmons Jr.	2,512	9.1
	Democratic	John Olumba	1,747	6.4
	Democratic	George Cushingberry Jr.	1,121	4.1
	Democratic	Anam Miah	931	3.4
	Democratic	Lawrence Gannan	555	2.0
	Democratic	William Phillips	328	1.2
	Democratic	Tommy Campbell	265	1.0
Total votes			27,486	100
	Republican	Lisa Papas	3,879	54.1
	Republican	John Hauler	3,289	45.9
Total votes			7,168	100
General election
	Democratic	Adam Hollier	53,920	75.7
	Republican	Lisa Papas	17,288	24.3
Total votes			71,209	100
	Democratic hold

2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 2^[87]
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Bert Johnson (incumbent)	10,407	63.0
	Democratic	John Olumba	3,663	22.2
	Democratic	Georgia Lemmons	1,733	10.5
	Democratic	Taras Nykoriak	721	4.4
Total votes			16,524	100
General election
	Democratic	Bert Johnson (incumbent)	41,452	71.6
	Republican	Mark Price	14,354	24.8
	Independent	Jeff Hall	2,088	3.6
Total votes			57,894	100
	Democratic hold

Federal and statewide results

Year	Office	Results^[88]
2020	President	Biden 78.5 – 20.5%
2018	Senate	Stabenow 74.9 – 23.4%
2018	Governor	Whitmer 76.4 – 21.6%
2016	President	Clinton 77.4 – 19.9%
2014	Senate	Peters 75.0 – 22.7%
2014	Governor	Schauer 66.3 – 32.5%
2012	President	Obama 80.4 – 19.2%
2012	Senate	Stabenow 80.4 – 17.4%

Historical district boundaries

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2022)

Description	Apportionment Plan	Notes
Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Township Grosse Pointe Woods Harper Woods	1964 Apportionment Plan	^[89]
Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Woods (part) Hamtramck Harper Woods	1972 Apportionment Plan	^[90]
Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Hamtramck Highland Park	1982 Apportionment Plan	^[91]
Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Hamtramck Highland Park	1992 Apportionment Plan	^[92]
Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Township Grosse Pointe Woods Hamtramck Harper Woods Highland Park	2001 Apportionment Plan	^[93]
Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Shores Grosse Pointe Woods Hamtramck Harper Woods Highland Park	2011 Apportionment Plan	^[94]