A special election to fill the vacancy in the Michigan Senate's competitive 35th District could sway the power dynamic in Lansing.

Election lawyers from both sides of the political spectrum said Monday that Michigan Secretary of Jocelyn Benson correctly declined to issue a declarative ruling on whether the major party’s endorsement conventions were constitutional.

House Speaker Matt Hall celebrated the news, calling ranked choice voting a "scheme to complicate and hijack our elections."

Rank MI Vote, which seeks to bring ranked choice voting to Michigan, is ending a bid to put a proposal on the state’s 2026 ballot. Organizers say they may try again for 2028.

From a historic election in Detroit that ended with its first female Mayor getting the nod from voters, to the federal government shutdown, to tariffs, 2025 was a busy year with politics at the core,

Updated 2:32 p.m. Rank MI Vote, the grassroots organization pushing for a ballot initiative to establish ranked choice voting in Michigan, has paused its statewide efforts to get that measure on the 2026 ballot.

Mike Rogers, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has created a "Faith Coalition" campaign leadership team made up of pastors and political figures who have promoted baseless claims about election fraud and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.