Michigan's 30th Senate district

Michigan's 30th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. The 30th district was created by the 1850 Michigan Constitution, as the 1835 constitution only permitted a maximum of eight senate districts.^[2][3] It has been represented by Republican Mark Huizenga since 2023, succeeding fellow Republican Roger Victory.

Michigan's 30th State Senate district
Senator	Mark Huizenga R–Walker
Demographics	81% White 5% Black 7% Hispanic 2% Asian 1% Other 4% Multiracial
Population (2022)	269,074
Notes	[1]

By most measures, the 2012-2022 version of the district was the most Republican-leaning district in the Senate. However, redistricting in 2022 reconfigured the district to take in much of the northern half of the city of Grand Rapids, making it a more competitive seat.^[4] Incumbent Republican state senator Mark Huizenga, who had won a special election for the previous 28th district,^[5] was narrowly re-elected over Democratic state representative David LaGrand, the closest race of the entire 2022 state Senate elections.^[6]

Geography

District 30 encompasses parts of Kent and Ottawa counties.^[7]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 30, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, was exactly coterminous with Ottawa County in the western suburbs of Grand Rapids, including the communities of Grand Haven, Hudsonville, Coopersville, Zeeland, Ferrysburg, Allendale, Jenison, Georgetown Township, Grand Haven Township, Holland Township, Park Township, Spring Lake Township, Zeeland Township, and most of northern Holland.^[8]

The district was located entirely within Michigan's 2nd congressional district, and overlapped with the 88th, 89th, and 90th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.^[9]

List of senators

Senator	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
John S. Smith		Democratic	1853–1854	Armada	[10][11]
Cortez P. Hooker		Democratic	1855–1856	Ashley	[10][12][13]
Stephen H. Warren		Republican	1857–1858	Eureka	[10][14][15]
Osmond Tower		Republican	1859–1862	Ionia	[10][16]
Nelson Green		Republican	1863–1864	Clay Banks	[10][17]
Elias W. Merrill		Republican	1865–1866	Muskegon	[10][18]
Israel E. Carleton		Republican	1867–1870	Whitehall	Lived in Mears until around 1869.[10][19]
Wales F. Storrs		Republican	1871–1872	Coopersville	[10][20]
Edgar L. Gray		Republican	1873–1876	Newaygo	[10][21]
Fitch R. Williams		Republican	1877–1878	Elk Rapids	[10][22]
George W. Bell		Republican	1879–1880	Cheboygan	[10][23][24]
Archibald Buttars		Republican	1881–1882	Charlevoix	[10][25]
John H. Richardson		Independent	1883–1884	Tuscola	[10][26]
Lewis C. Davis		Democratic	1885–1886	Vassar	Elected on a Fusionist ticket, also backed by the Greenback Party.[10][27]
Henry W. Seymour		Republican	1887–1888	Sault St. Marie	Resigned.[10][28][29]
Albert O. Blackwell		Republican	1889–1890	Gladstone	[10][30]
George W. Sharp		Democratic	1891–1892	Newberry	[10][31]
Joseph Flesheim		Republican	1893–1894	Menominee	[10][32]
Richard Mason		Republican	1895–1898	Gladstone	[10][33]
Fred K. Baker		Republican	1899–1900	Menominee	[10][34]
Oramel B. Fuller		Republican	1901–1904	Ford River	[10][35]
Willis N. Mills		Republican	1905–1906	Menominee	[10][36]
Oramel B. Fuller		Republican	1907–1908	Ford River	[10][35]
Otto Fowle		Republican	1909–1912	Sault St. Marie	[10][37]
James C. Wood		Republican	1913–1918	Manistique	[10][38]
William A. Lemire		Republican	1919–1922	Escanaba	[10][39]
Frank P. Bohn		Republican	1923–1926	Newberry	[10][40]
Herbert J. Rushton		Republican	1927–1932	Escanaba	[10][41]
W. F. Doyle		Republican	1933–1934	Menominee	[10][42]
John F. Luecke		Democratic	1935–1936	Escanaba	[10][43]
James D. Dotsch		Democratic	1937–1940	Garden	[10][44]
Joseph A. Laframboise		Democratic	1941–1944	Gladstone	[10][45]
George Girrbach		Republican	1945–1948	Sault St. Marie	Died in office.[10][46]
William A. Ellsworth		Republican	1949–1954	St. Ignace	[10][47]
Edward H. Gibbs		Democratic	1955–1956	Perkins	[10][48]
William E. Miron		Democratic	1957–1962	Escanaba	Died in office.[10][49]
Kent T. Lundgren		Republican	1962–1964	Menominee	[10][50]
Emil Lockwood		Republican	1965–1970	St. Louis	[10][51]
Bill Ballenger		Republican	1971–1974	Delta Township	Lived in Ovid until around 1972.[52][53][54]
Richard J. Allen		Republican	1975–1982	Alma	[10][55][56]
Alan Cropsey		Republican	1983–1986	DeWitt	[10][57]
Frederick P. Dillingham		Republican	1987–1994	Fowlerville	[10][58]
Glenn Steil Sr.		Republican	1995–2002	Grand Rapids	[10][59]
Wayne Kuipers		Republican	2003–2010	Holland	[10][60]
Arlan Meekhof		Republican	2011–2018	West Olive	[61][10]
Roger Victory		Republican	2019–2022	Georgetown Township	[62][63][64]
Mark Huizenga		Republican	2023–present	Walker	[65]

Recent election results

2022

2022 Michigan Senate election, District 30^[66]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mark Huizenga (incumbent)	30,784	77.1
	Republican	Keith Hinkle	9,136	22.9
Total votes			39,920	100
General election
	Republican	Mark Huizenga (incumbent)	63,754	49.2
	Democratic	David LaGrand	63,363	48.9
	Libertarian	Theodore Petzold	2,516	1.9
Total votes			129,633	100
	Republican hold

2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 30^[66]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Roger Victory	16,895	41.7
	Republican	Daniela Garcia	10,647	26.3
	Republican	Joseph Haveman	10,585	26.1
	Republican	Rett DeBoer	2,399	5.9
Total votes			40,526	100
General election
	Republican	Roger Victory	79,323	63.2
	Democratic	Jeanette Schipper	42,904	34.2
	Libertarian	Mary Buzuma	3,189	2.5
Total votes			125,416	100
	Republican hold

2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 30^[66]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Arlan Meekhof (incumbent)	62,338	71.4
	Democratic	Sarah Howard	24,940	28.6
Total votes			87,278	100
	Republican hold

1998

1998 Michigan Senate 30th district election^[67]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Glenn Steil Sr. (incumbent)	47,499	62.48%
	Democratic	Carol Hennessy	28,525	37.52%
Total votes			76,024	100.00%

Federal and statewide results

Year	Office	Results[68]
2020	President	Trump 59.8 – 38.3%
2018	Senate	James 62.7 – 35.6%
	Governor	Schuette 60.4 – 36.9%
2016	President	Trump 62.3 – 31.7%
2014	Senate	Land 65.2 – 31.2%
	Governor	Snyder 73.6 – 24.5%
2012	President	Romney 66.8 – 32.4%
	Senate	Hoekstra 63.9 – 33.4%

Historical district boundaries

Map	Description	Apportionment Plan	Notes
	Clinton County Eaton County (part) Benton Township Charlotte Chester Township Delta Township Eaton Township Eaton Rapids Eaton Rapids Township Grand Ledge Hamlin Township Lansing (part) Oneida Township Potterville Roxand Township Sunfield Township Windsor Township Gratiot County Ingham County (part) Locke Township Williamston Williamstown Township Montcalm County (part) Belvidere Township Bloomer Township Bushnell Township Carson City Cato Township Crystal Township Day Township Douglass Township Eureka Township Evergreen Township Fairplain Township Ferris Township Greenville Home Township Montcalm Township Pine Township Richland Township Sidney Township Stanton Winfield Township Shiawassee County	1964 Apportionment Plan	[69]
	Barry County (part) Castleton Township Maple Grove Township Calhoun County (part) Lee Township Clinton County Eaton County (part) Excluding Sunfield Township Gratiot County (part) Alma Elba Township Fulton Township Newark Township New Haven Township North Shade Township Pine River Township Seville Township Sumner Township Washington Township Ingham County (part) Alaiedon Township (part) Aurelius Township Bunker Hill Township Ingham Township Leroy Township Leslie Leslie Township Mason Onondaga Township Stockbridge Township Vevay Township Wheatfield Township White Oak Township Jackson County (part) Blackman Township (part) Rives Township Tompkins Township Montcalm County (part) Crystal Township Ferris Township Shiawassee County (part) Bennington Township Fairfield Township Hazelton Township Laingsburg Middlebury Township New Haven Township Owosso (part) Owosso Township Perry Perry Township Rush Township Sciota Township Shiawassee Township Vernon Township (part) Woodhull Township	1972 Apportionment Plan	[70]
	Clinton County Livingston County Shiawassee County	1982 Apportionment Plan	[71]
	Kent County (part) Alpine Township Grand Rapids Plainfield Township Sparta Township Walker	1992 Apportionment Plan	[72]
	Kent County (part) Grandville Sparta Township Ottawa County	2001 Apportionment Plan	[73]
	Ottawa County	2011 Apportionment Plan	[74]