Michigan’s card is wide: a Senate seat, a governor and lieutenant governor, two statewide proposals, university boards, and two Supreme Court seats. The Senate guide’s cited survey is a single Emerson College / Nexstar poll that the guide stores as a close result between Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers. Cook’s stored label on that race is Tossup. The governor guide stores a different survey and a Lean Democratic Cook label for Jocelyn Benson and John James. Those are two contests. A voter can split them, and a proposal can pass while either ticket loses. Early voting is local. A statewide percentage that ignores Detroit’s timing relative to smaller counties will move for ordinary reporting reasons.
Michigan’s sourced statewide list includes Governor / Lt. Governor 4 Year Term (1) Position; Secretary of State 4 Year Term (1) Position; Attorney General 4 Year Term (1) Position; U.S. Senate 6 Year Term (1) Position; Member of the State Board of Education 8 Year Terms (2) Positions, and 4 more lines on the hub above. A Class 2 U.S. Senate seat, last elected in 2020, is on this state’s regular 2026 ballot. The term is six years and expires in January 2027. A governor’s race is on the cycle. The winner becomes the state’s chief executive under the state constitution. This page does not predict who that will be. The hub’s summary of the official list includes at least one statewide question. A measure is not a candidate. Its passage rule is in state law, and the legal text is the pamphlet or the certificate, not a campaign slogan. The list is not a sample ballot for a street address. Counties add local offices, and a ZIP sketch on this site is not the official card.
Race guides linked from this hub: MI Senate (Cook Political Report: Tossup, August 20, 2026); MI Governor (Cook Political Report: Lean D, August 20, 2026); MI-07. A rating in that list is the outlet’s label. It is not a Map the Midterms call, and a guide with no rating is not secretly a Toss-up. Candidate names on a guide come from an election-office list, a certified ballot, or the Clerk of the House nominee list. The short bio restates that listing. It is not a speech. Where a card links a verified Ballotpedia profile, the profile collects public reporting. This briefing does not copy it.
Past margins for president, Senate, governor, or a House district are the canvass Michigan Secretary of State — Elections certified, and for federal offices the compilation the Federal Election Commission publishes from those state reports. This briefing does not drop in a percentage it has not copied from one of those documents. A close prior canvass is a reason to watch how Michigan reports mail and provisional ballots. It is not a 2026 result. Turnout rates disagree when one chart uses the Census Bureau’s survey and another uses registered voters or ballots counted. Lansing is the capital. Most of Michigan is on Eastern Time; four western Upper Peninsula counties use Central Time. Poll-close comparisons with other states have to respect that clock. Certification is the state’s work, on the state’s calendar, after election night.
