Michigan's 1st House of Representatives district

District 1 is a legislative district within the Michigan House of Representatives located in the northeastern corner of Wayne County, Michigan, including the Upper East Side of Detroit and the Cities of Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Woods, and Grosse Pointe Shores.^[1] It has a 2010 population of over 83,000.

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Legislature	Representative	First day of term	Last day of term	Electoral History	Counties Represented
75th	Robert E. Waldron	January 1, 1969	December 31, 1970	[data missing]
76th	William R. Bryant, Jr.	January 1, 1971	December 31, 1972	Previously served in the 13th district from 1973 to 1992.^[2]	[data missing]
77th	Josephine D. Hunsinger	January 1, 1973	December 31, 1974	Previously served in the 12th district (1955–64) and in the 16th district (1965–72)^[3]	[data missing]
78th	Josephine D. Hunsinger	January 1, 1975	December 31, 1976		[data missing]
79th	Michael J. Bennane	January 1, 1977	December 31, 1978	Later served in the 14th district from 1993 to 1996.^[4]	[data missing]
80th		January 1, 1979	December 31, 1980
81st		January 1, 1981	December 31, 1982
82nd		January 1, 1983	December 31, 1984
83rd		January 1, 1985	December 31, 1986
84th		January 1, 1987	December 31, 1988
85th		January 1, 1989	December 31, 1990
86th		January 1, 1991	December 31, 1992
87th	William R. Bryant, Jr.	January 1, 1993	December 31, 1994	Previously served in the 13th district from 1973 to 1992.^[5]	[data missing]
88th	William R. Bryant, Jr.	January 1, 1995	December 31, 1996		[data missing]
89th	Andrew C. Richner	January 1, 1997	December 31, 1998	Current member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan.	Wayne (part)
90th^[6]		January 1, 1999	December 31, 2000
91st^[7]		January 1, 2001	December 31, 2002
92nd^[8]	Edward J. Gaffney	January 1, 2003	December 31, 2004	Max term limit reached
93rd^[9]		January 1, 2005	December 31, 2006
94th^[10]		January 1, 2007	December 31, 2008
95th^[11]	Tim Bledsoe	January 1, 2009	December 31, 2010	Ran in 2006, but lost to Edward Gaffney by ≈1200 votes.
96th^[12]	Tim Bledsoe	January 1, 2011	December 31, 2012	Ran in 2006, but lost to Edward Gaffney by ≈1200 votes.
97th^[13]	Brian Roderick Banks	January 1, 2013	December 31, 2015	Currently running for the 2nd district in the State Senate.
98th^[14]^[15]		January 1, 2015	January 10, 2017
99th^[16]		January 11, 2017	February 6, 2017
	Vacant	February 6-November 17, 2017
	Tenisha Yancey	November 17, 2017	December 31, 2020	[data missing]	Wayne (part)

Years	County	Municipalities
2013–present	Wayne	Detroit (Upper East Side), Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Shores
2003-12	Wayne	Detroit (MorningSide and East English Village neighborhoods), Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Twp. (incorporated into the City of Grosse Pointe Shores in 2009)
1993-2002	Wayne	Detroit (East English Village neighborhood), Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Twp. (incorporated into the City of Grosse Pointe Shores in 2009)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Tenisha Yancey	21,801	72.92
	Republican	Mark Corcoran	7,466	24.97
	Libertarian	Gregory Creswell	631	2.11
Total votes			29,898
	Democratic hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Brian R. Banks	24,947	68.34
	Republican	William Broman	11,558	31.66
Turnout			36,505
	Democratic hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Brian R. Banks	15,992	67.27
	Republican	John Hauler	7,782	32.73
Turnout			23,774
	Democratic hold		Swing

Michigan's 1st House of Representatives district

List of representatives

Historic District Boundaries

Recent elections

References

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2008 Michigan House of Representatives election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Tim Bledsoe	26,811	56.78
	Republican	Mary Treder Lang	20,405	43.22
Turnout			47,216
	Democratic gain from Republican		Swing