The two Democratic trustee candidates, Renee Knake Jefferson and Dennis Denno, won both open seats on the board. Their Republican challengers, Travis Menge and Mike Balow, said they fully accept the results.
Renee Knake Jefferson and Dennis Denno have won the two open seats on the MSU Board of Trustees with 24.94% and 24.35% of the votes, respectively, according to Ingham County's unofficial results. Their terms will start in January 2023.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin gave a “special shout out” to students who waited in an hourslong line at Brody Hall to vote on Tuesday night. This turnout, she said, was the fruition of the same-day registration and voting measures that were on the ballot in 2018.
The last time that Democrats held a majority in the state Senate was in 1984 – when the first Ghostbusters movie was in theaters.
Nessel said Michigan values like “Love over Hate,” “Facts over Lies” and “Democracy over Fascism” were pushing her campaign forward to victory.
With the passage of Proposal 1, term limits will now change in Michigan and the governor, attorney general, secretary of state and state lawmakers will now be required to turn over annual financial disclosure reports around assets, sources of income, gifts and travel.
The State News attended both election viewing parties of Michigan's 7th Congressional District candidates – Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Michigan Sen. Tom Barrett – Tuesday night. Both events portrayed different moods to the media.
Rep. Elissa Slotkin has been declared the winner in the race for Michigan's 7th Congressional District and will return for a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Whitmer defeated her opponent, Tudor Dixon, by a margin of five points, with 51.7% to Dixon’s 46.7%.
With 66 percent of the vote in, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is projected to win, holding a 53 percent lead at the time of publication.
Michigan State students waited in line on campus for over three hours after polls closed to cast their ballots in the Nov. 8 general election.
Election Day 2022 marks the end of a fierce campaign season that has covered dozens of issues most important to the state of Michigan — abortion rights, inflation and education, to name a few.
“Honestly, I was expecting a lot more apathy. I'm really happy that so many people have actually intended to make their voices heard,” New Voters Project organizer Felix De Simone said.
Hundreds of students have registered to vote on campus at Brody Hall. Poll workers say on-campus locations are running smoothly.
Students made their way into Brody Hall on Tuesday morning to begin casting their ballots in one of the most critical midterm elections in decades.
Whitmer, who received her undergraduate degree from MSU in 1993, hosted her final campaign event of the 2022 midterm election cycle on campus Monday night near The Rock on Farm Lane.
The State News sent each candidate the same questionnaire, and eight candidates responded. Here are their answers to questions on a variety of issues ranging from COVID-19 recovery to LGBTQ representation.
“It’s really important to me that I have an ability to make my voice heard,” Zoology sophomore Ellie Barron said. “It’s not a given.”
"I'm not sure what I'm gonna do honestly," one out-of-state student said. "I'm just worried that it's not gonna get here in time ... I don't want to miss out on (the election) just because I didn't get the ballot in time."
“This week is an opportunity to double down on our commitment and put action into place that will mobilize our community around stalking and gender-based violence awareness,” POR peer educator coordinator Alex Babbitt said in a press release. “‘It’s On Us’ is a reminder that change starts with each one of us.”