Michigan's 1st Senate district

Michigan's 1st Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Erika Geiss since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Stephanie Chang.^[2][3]

Michigan's 1st State Senate district
Senator	Erika Geiss D–Taylor
Demographics	41% White 35% Black 20% Hispanic 1% Asian 4% Multiracial
Population (2022)	265,219
Notes	[1]

Geography

District 1 encompasses part of Wayne County.^[4]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 1, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered parts of Wayne County along the Canadian border, including much of Detroit as well as River Rouge, Ecorse, Wyandotte, Riverview, Trenton, Woodhaven, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile, and parts of Brownstown.^[5]

The district was split three ways among Michigan's 12th, 13th, and 14th congressional districts. It overlapped with the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th, 14th, and 23rd districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.^[6]

List of senators

Senator	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
Jonathan D. Davis		Democratic	1835–1837	Plymouth	[7][8]
Conrad Ten Eyck		Democratic	1835–1837	Dearborn	[7][9]
John McDonell		Democratic	1835–1838	Detroit	[7][10]
Benjamin B. Kercheval		Democratic	1838–1839	Detroit	[7][11]
William Woodbridge		Whig	1838–1839	Detroit	[7][12]
De Garmo Jones		Whig	1840–1841	Detroit	[7][13]
Benjamin F. H. Witherell		Democratic	1840–1841	Detroit	[7][14]
Dewitt C. Walker		Democratic	1842	Romeo	[7][15][16]
Lyman Granger		Democratic	1842–1843	Columbus	[7][17][18]
Jonathan Shearer		Democratic	1842–1844	Plymouth	[7][19]
Neil Gray Jr.		Democratic	1843–1844	Ray	[7][20][21]
Lorenzo M. Mason		Democratic	1844–1845	Port Huron	[7][22]
William Hale		Democratic	1845–1846	Detroit	[7][23]
Abner C. Smith		Democratic	1845–1846	Mount Clemens	[7][24]
Oel Rix		Democratic	1846–1847	Richmond	[7][25]
Andrew T. McReynolds		Democratic	1847	Detroit	[7][26][27]
Robert P. Eldredge		Democratic	1847–1848	Mount Clemens	[7][28][29]
John E. Schwarz		Democratic	1847–1848	Detroit	[7][30]
George Griswold		Democratic	1848–1849	Detroit	[7][31][32]
Charles A. Loomis		Democratic	1848–1849	Saint Clair	[7][33][32]
Jacob Summers		Democratic	1849–1850	Utica	[7][34]
Titus Dort		Democratic	1849–1852	Dearborn	[7][35]
Joseph T. Copeland		Democratic	1850–1851	Saint Clair	Resigned, elected circuit judge.[7][36][37]
Andrew Harvie		Democratic	1850–1852	Detroit	[7][38]
Andrew Harvie		Democratic	1850–1852	Detroit	[7][39]
Henry C. Kibbee		Democratic	1851–1852	Mount Clemens	[7][40]
The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district.[41][42]
George Griswold		Democratic	1853–1854	Detroit	[7][31][43]
Buckminster Wight		Republican	1855–1856	Detroit	[7][44][45]
Alexander H. Redfield		Democratic	1857–1858	Detroit	[7][46]
Anthony Dudgeon		Democratic	1859–1860	Detroit	[7][47][48]
William Adair		Democratic	1861–1866	Detroit	[7][49]
Paul Gies		Democratic	1867–1868	Detroit	[7][50]
William Adair		Democratic	1869–1870	Detroit	[7][49]
James W. Romeyn		Democratic	1871–1872	Detroit	[7][51]
William B. Wesson		Republican	1873–1874	Detroit	[7][52]
William Adair		Democratic	1875–1878	Detroit	[7][49]
James D. Weir		Democratic	1879–1880	Detroit	[7][53]
James Caplis		Republican	1881–1882	Detroit	[7][54]
James W. Romeyn		Democratic	1883–1884	Detroit	[7][51]
Michael Greiner		Democratic	1885–1886	Wayne County	[7][55]
John Rairden		Republican	1887–1888	Detroit	Also backed by the Labor Party.[7][56][57]
Joseph Nagel		Democratic	1889–1890	Detroit	[7][58]
Frank Smith		Democratic	1891–1892	Detroit	[7][59]
Lewis C. Hough		Democratic	1893–1894	Plymouth	[7][60]
F. Markham Briggs		Republican	1895–1896	Plymouth	[7][61]
Arthur L. Holmes		Republican	1897–1898	Detroit	[7][62]
John J. Perren		Democratic	1899–1900	Detroit	[7][63]
Arthur L. Holmes		Republican	1901–1902	Detroit	[7][62]
William P. Scullen		Democratic	1903–1904	Greenfield	[7][64]
Frederick C. Martindale		Republican	1905–1908	Greenfield	[7][65]
Lawrence W. Snell		Republican	1909–1912	Highland Park	[7][66]
Clarence E. Gittins		Progressive	1913–1914	Highland Park	[7][67]
Louis N. Hilsendegen		Republican	1915–1916	Grosse Pointe	[7][68]
Herman L. Koehler		Republican	1917–1918	Detroit	[7][69]
Walter J. Hayes		Republican	1919–1924	Wayne County	[7][70]
Roy Herald		Republican	1925–1926	Highland Park	[7][71]
George Defer		Republican	1927	Detroit	Died in office.[7][72]
Fred W. Harding		Republican	1929–1932	Grosse Pointe	[7][73]
James A. Murphy		Democratic	1933–1939	Detroit	Died in office.[7][74]
Carl W. Bischoff		Democratic	1939–1940	Detroit	[7][75]
Ernest G. Nagel		Democratic	1941–1942	Detroit	[7][76]
Charles N. Youngblood Sr.		Democratic	1943–1946	Detroit	[7][77][78]
Matthew F. Callahan		Republican	1947–1948	Detroit	[7][79]
Harold M. Ryan		Democratic	1949–1962	Detroit	Resigned.[7][80]
Charles N. Youngblood Jr.		Democratic	1963–1964	Detroit	[7][81]
George S. Fitzgerald		Democratic	1965–1974	Grosse Pointe Park	[7][82]
William B. Fitzgerald Jr.		Democratic	1975–1978	Detroit	[7][83]
John F. Kelly		Democratic	1979–1994	Detroit	[7][84]
Joseph F. Young Jr.		Democratic	1995–2002	Detroit	[7][85]
Hansen Clarke		Democratic	2003–2010	Detroit	[7][86]
Coleman Young II		Democratic	2011–2018	Detroit	[7][87]
Stephanie Chang		Democratic	2019–2022	Detroit	[7][88]
Erika Geiss		Democratic	2023–present	Taylor	[89]

Recent election results

2022

2022 Michigan Senate election, District 1^[90]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Erika Geiss (incumbent)	6,824	32.3
	Democratic	Brenda K. Sanders	4,912	23.3
	Democratic	Frank Liberati	4,842	22.9
	Democratic	Shellee M. Brooks	2,089	9.9
	Democratic	Ricardo R. Moore	1,673	7.9
	Democratic	Carl J. Schwartz	774	3.7
Total votes			21,114	100
General election
	Democratic	Erika Geiss (incumbent)	53,475	71.6
	Republican	Erik Soderquist	21,243	28.4
Total votes			874,718	100
	Democratic hold

2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 1^[90]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Stephanie Chang	16,427	49.8
	Democratic	Alberta Tinsley-Talabi	8,710	26.4
	Democratic	Bettie Cook Scott	3,698	11.2
	Democratic	James Cole Jr.	1,717	5.2
	Democratic	Stephanie Roehm	1,464	4.4
	Democratic	Nicholas Rivera	941	2.9
Total votes			32,957	100
General election
	Democratic	Stephanie Chang	62,071	72.0
	Republican	Pauline Montie	20,879	24.2
	Green	David Bullock	3,257	3.8
Total votes			86,207	100
	Democratic hold

2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 1^[90]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Coleman Young II (incumbent)	48,510	71.8
	Republican	Barry Berk	19,021	28.2
Total votes			67,531	100
	Democratic hold

Federal and statewide results

Year	Office	Results[91]
2020	President	Biden 70.4 – 28.3%
2018	Senate	Stabenow 72.0 – 26.1%
	Governor	Whitmer 73.4 – 24.2%
2016	President	Clinton 70.6 – 26.2%
2014	Senate	Peters 77.1 – 19.9%
	Governor	Schauer 70.0 – 28.4%
2012	President	Obama 78.0 – 21.4%
	Senate	Stabenow 80.0 – 17.2%

Historical district boundaries

Map	Description	Apportionment Plan	Notes
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Park	1964 Apportionment Plan	[92]
	Macomb County (part) Lake Township Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Township	1972 Apportionment Plan	[93]
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Township Grosse Pointe Woods Harper Woods	1982 Apportionment Plan	[94]
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Grosse Pointe Grosse Pointe Farms Grosse Pointe Park Grosse Pointe Township Grosse Pointe Woods Harper Woods	1992 Apportionment Plan	[95]
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part)	2001 Apportionment Plan	[96]
	Wayne County (part) Brownstown Township (part) Detroit (part) Ecorse Gibraltar Grosse Ile Township River Rouge Riverview Trenton Woodhaven Wyandotte	2011 Apportionment Plan	[97]