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Latest news on the Michigan Senate (also searched as the Mich. Senate), covering the Michigan Senate race, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Republican Mike Rogers, senators Elissa Slotkin and Gary Peters, midterms and election results, the Senate majority, the state Senate in Lansing, and politics across Detroit and the Great Lakes State.

Michigan sends two senators to Washington, each serving a six-year term. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, won her seat in 2024 by narrowly defeating Mike Rogers in an open race after Debbie Stabenow retired. The other seat belonged to Gary Peters, a Democrat who chose to retire.

In the midterm elections of 3 November 2026, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed was projected to defeat Republican Mike Rogers in the race for Peters's open seat. A former public health official who had never held elected office, and the son of Egyptian immigrants, he is set to become the first Muslim senator. His campaign centred on universal health care and removing outside money from elections, in a contest marked by heavy outside spending and attack ads on his faith and background.

Michigan politics is closely contested and shaped by place. Michiganders from Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids to the Upper Peninsula, where Yoopers have an identity of their own, weigh manufacturing jobs, the cost of living and health care differently. Michiganians, Detroiters and rural voters alike make the state a battleground in national elections. The 38-member Michigan Senate in Lansing, which Democrats won in 2022 for the first time since 1984, also makes headlines.

Rogers, a former congressman who served in the House from 2000 to 2014, lost to Slotkin by a whisker in 2024 and returned for a second Senate run. El-Sayed rose from a double-digit defeat in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor to win a Senate seat, which keeps the seat in Democratic hands.

The NewsNow Michigan Senate feed brings together the latest headlines on Abdul El-Sayed, Mike Rogers, Elissa Slotkin, Gary Peters, Senate race results, state Senate votes in Lansing and the wider fight for the Senate majority, from reliable sources, so Michiganders and anyone following the Great Lakes State can keep up in one place.