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The elections desk · the 2026 midterms

The Count

All the outlet's midterm coverage lives here: Senate, House, governors and the race rooms. Every call carries a printed number, months early, and gets graded against the certified result.

Election day
3 Nov 2026
Countdown
 
Senate control
R 82%
Record
53 locked / 0 graded
Senate roomMichigan · Senate · Class 2 · 3 Nov 2026Lean D

The Michigan room

Why this seat

Open, in a state whose last two Senate races were decided inside two points. Michigan is the seat most likely to decide the chamber if the national environment lands near the middle of the drag prior.

State of the field

No incumbent on either side. The desk has not completed a source pass on the field, so no ledger is published here.

The test

Michigan holds for the Democrats if Wayne and Washtenaw turnout stays near its off-year ceiling. It flips on a soft Detroit turnout with no compensating suburban swing.

The seat, by the modelSame coefficients as every other seat
Model terms for this seat
2024 certified marginR+1.4
2024 margin × 0.781.1
Midterm drag+5.6
Expected marginD+4.5
Seat uncertainty (1σ)±7.0

Model call

71%

Democratic hold

Michigan's last two Senate races were decided inside two points, and this one has no incumbent.

Nothing written on this page feeds that number. The method.

Candidate ledgerNot open yet

No candidate ledger is published for this seat. A ledger requires a completed first-party source pass — every candidate's own published policy pages, read on the same day, under identical headings and an identical word budget. Until that pass is done, printing a partial board would rate the campaigns that publish against the ones that have not, which is the asymmetry the Standard exists to prevent.

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