Elections for the Michigan House of Representatives will take place in 2024. The general election is on Nov. 5, 2024. The primary was Aug. 6, 2024. The filing deadline was Apr. 23, 2024.
All 110 seats are up for election. Democrats hold 56 seats and Republicans hold 54. If Republicans gain more than one seat, they will gain control of the chamber. If Republicans gain exactly one seat, control of the chamber will be split. If Democrats gain seats, they will maintain their majority.
Ballotpedia identified 24 districts as battlegrounds—14 with a Democratic incumbent and 10 with a Republican incumbent. Incumbents are running for re-election in all 24. Donald Trump (R) won the 2020 presidential election in four of the 14 districts with Democratic incumbents and Joe Biden (D) won in two of the 10 with Republican incumbents. As of Oct. 11, 2024, CNAlysis rated 11 of the 24 battleground races as leaning towards Democrats, eight as leaning towards Republicans, and five as toss-ups.
This will be the first election to take place under the new legislative district maps Michigan adopted after the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan ruled that the maps used for the 2022 elections were unconstitutional. A group of Detroit voters sued ahead of the 2022 elections, saying that the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission had drawn the maps in use that year with race as the primary consideration and had reduced the number of majority-Black districts relative to the previous map. According to the Detroit Free Press, “Overall, the [new 2024] maps skew slightly more Republican compared with the districts currently in place.”
The elections will determine Michigan’s trifecta status. Michigan is a Democratic trifecta because the governor is a Democrat and Democrats control both legislative chambers. Democrats gained their current trifecta after winning majorities in both legislative chambers in 2022. All 110 Michigan House seats are up for election in every even-numbered year. The governorship and state senate are next up for election in 2026.
Both parties are running on the Democratic majority’s legislative record. Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee President Heather Williams said the election was a chance “to protect the incredible progress made under Democratic majorities. Michigan Democrats in the statehouse passed common sense gun safety legislation, improved access to Medicaid, and protected fundamental reproductive freedoms.” Michigan House Republican Campaign Committee spokesman Greg Manz said: “Michiganders, who have not yet fled, are going to hold House Democrats accountable for incentivizing criminal invaders who cross our southern border to flock to Michigan neighborhoods, hiking taxes on the middle class, and prioritizing corporate welfare over working-class families.”
The Michigan House of Representatives is one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.