Who's Moving Up In Next Year's Michigan Legislature

David Guenthner is senior strategist for state affairs at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Mackinac Center’s first full-time government affairs lobbyist.

Guenthner prepared a list that distills some key facts about the next state Legislature after Tuesday’s election.

The new Senate will have 22 Republicans and 16 Democrats.

REPUBLICANS

• 6 returning senators: Mike Shirkey, Dale Zorn, Peter MacGregor, Ken Horn, Jim Stamas and Wayne Schmidt
• 9 current House members: Jim Runestad, Peter Lucido, John Bizon, Kim LaSata, Lana Theis, Tom Barrett, Dan Lauwers, Roger Victory and Curt VanderWall
• 6 former House members: Ruth Johnson, Aric Nesbitt, Kevin Daley, Rick Outman, Jon Bumstead and Ed McBroom
• 1 with no previous legislative experience: Michael MacDonald

DEMOCRATS

• 2 returning senators: Jim Ananich and Curtis Hertel
• 5 current House members: Stephanie Chang, Sylvia Santana, Erika Geiss, Jeremy Moss and Winnie Brinks
• 3 former House members: Jeff Irwin, Paul Wojno and Sean McCann
• 6 with no previous legislative experience: Adam Hollier, Marshall Bullock, Betty Jean Alexander, Dayna Polehanki, Rosemary Bayer and Mallory McMorrow

The new House will have 58 Republicans and 52 Democrats.

REPUBLICANS

• 36 returning members
• 22 new members

DEMOCRATS

• 28 returning members
• 1 current senator: Rebekah Warren, who was termed out of the Senate but still has two years eligibility in the House
• 23 new members