2022 Michigan gubernatorial election
Re-election of Gretchen Whitmer as Governor of Michigan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The 2022 Michigan gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Michigan. Incumbent Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer ran for re-election to a second term and faced former political commentator Tudor Dixon in the general election.[2] Whitmer defeated Dixon by a margin of 10.6 percentage points, a wider margin than polls indicated as well as a wider margin than Whitmer's first victory four years prior. According to Ron Brownstein of CNN in 2023, Whitmer won independent voters by double-digit margins, which contributed to Dixon's defeat.[3]
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Turnout | 54.1% (estimated)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
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Whitmer: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% Dixon: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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This was the first gubernatorial election in Michigan history in which both major party candidates for governor were women,[4] and the first since 1990 in which the winner was from the same party as the incumbent president.[5]