Michigan's 2nd Senate district

Michigan's 2nd
State Senate district
Senator
  Sylvia Santana
D–Detroit
Demographics62% 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

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District 2 encompasses part of Wayne County.[4]

2011 Apportionment Plan

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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

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Senator Party 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

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2018

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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

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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

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

Historical district boundaries

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Map Description Apportionment Plan Notes
1964 Apportionment Plan [89]
1972 Apportionment Plan [90]
1982 Apportionment Plan [91]
1992 Apportionment Plan [92]
2001 Apportionment Plan [93]
2011 Apportionment Plan [94]

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