Michigan's 3rd Senate district

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

Michigan's 3rd State Senate district
Senator	Stephanie Chang D–Detroit
Demographics	41% White 42% Black 2% Hispanic 10% Asian 1% Other 3% Multiracial
Population (2022)	263,404
Notes	[1]

It is the most Democratic-leaning district in the Senate, giving both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama over 80% of the vote.

Geography

District 3 encompasses parts of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne counties.^[4]

2011 Apportionment Plan

District 3, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, was based in the city of Dearborn and parts of western Detroit in Wayne County, also covering the smaller community of Melvindale.^[5]

The district overlapped with Michigan's 12th, 13th, and 14th congressional districts, and with the 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 14th, and 15th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.^[6]

List of senators

Senator	Party		Dates	Residence	Notes
Calvin Britain		Democratic	1835–1837	St. Joseph	[7][8]
John S. Barry		Democratic	1835–1838	Constantine	[7][9]
Horace H. Comstock		Democratic	1835–1838	Comstock	[7][10]
Vincent L. Bradford		Democratic	1838	Niles	[7][11][12]
Elijah F. Cook		Democratic	1839	Farmington	[7][13]
Thomas J. Drake		Whig	1839–1841	Flint	[7][14]
Stephen V. R. Trowbridge		Whig	1839–1841	Birmingham	[7][15]
John P. LeRoy		Whig	1840–1841	Pontiac	[7][16]
Elisha P. Champlin		Whig	1842	Jonesville	[7][17]
John Burch		Democratic	1842–1843	Monroe	[7][18]
William L. Greenly		Democratic	1842–1843	Adrian	[7][19]
Michael A. Patterson		Democratic	1844–1845	Tecumseh	[7][20]
William T. Howell		Democratic	1843–1846	Hillsdale	[7][21]
Jefferson G. Thurber		Democratic	1844–1847	Monroe	[7][22]
Rufus Kibbee		Democratic	1846–1847	Medina	[7][23]
George Coe		Whig	1847	Coldwater	[7][24]
John P. Cook		Democratic	1847–1848	Hillsdale	[7][25]
Daniel D. Sinclair		Democratic	1848	Adrian	[7][26][27]
Enos G. Berry		Democratic	1848–1849	Quincy	[7][28][27][29]
Nelson Dunham		Democratic	1848–1849	Dundee	[7][30]
Levi Baxter		Whig	1849–1850	Jonesville	Also backed by the Free Soilers.[7][31]
Fielder S. Snow		Democratic	1849–1850	Clinton	[7][32]
Isaac P. Christiancy		Democratic	1850	Monroe	[7][33][34][35]
		Free Soil	1851–1852
Alfred French		Democratic	1850–1852	Bronson	[7][36]
John Barber		Democratic	1851–1852	Adrian	[7][37][35]
Henry S. Mead		Democratic	1851–1852	Hillsdale	[7][38][35]
The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district.[39][40]
Henry Fralick		Democratic	1853–1854	Plymouth	[7][41][42]
Nathaniel Ladd		Republican	1855–1856	Dearbornville	[7][43]
Henry Ledyard		Democratic	1857–1858	Detroit	[7][44]
Thornton F. Brodhead		Democratic	1859–1860	Trenton	[7][45]
Henry T. Backus		Republican	1861–1862	Detroit	[7][46]
William E. Warner		Democratic	1863–1864	Rawsonville	[7][47]
Adam Minnis		Democratic	1865–1866	Wayne	[7][48][49]
Oliver C. Abell		Republican	1867–1868	Wayne	[7][50]
Elliott T. Slocum		Republican	1869–1870	Trenton	[7][51]
Robert V. Briggs		Democratic	1871–1872	Wyandotte	[7][52]
William C. Sutton		Republican	1873–1874	Ecorse	[7][53][54]
James I. David		Democratic	1875–1876	Ecorse	[7][55]
Matthew Markey		Democratic	1877–1878	Wayne	[7][56]
William W. Duffield		Democratic	1879–1880	Inkster	[7][57]
Thomas Morrison		Republican	1881–1882	Wayne	[7][58]
James M. Hueston		Democratic	1883–1886	Northville	[7][59]
Bernard O'Reilly		Democratic	1887–1888	Detroit	Also backed by the Independent Labor Party.[7][60]
Anthony Grosfield		Democratic	1889–1890	Detroit	[7][61]
Peter E. Park		Democratic	1891–1892	Detroit	[7][62]
Joseph R. McLaughlin		Republican	1893–1896	Detroit	[7][63][64][65]
Charles W. Moore		Republican	1897–1898	Detroit	[7][66]
George F. Monaghan		Democratic	1899–1900	Detroit	[7][67]
James E. Scripps		Republican	1903–1904	Detroit	[7][68]
Noble Ashley		Republican	1905–1906	Detroit	[7][69]
Joseph Edward Bland		Republican	1907–1908	Detroit	[7][70]
John Donald M. MacKay		Republican	1909–1910	Detroit	[7][71]
Guy A. Miller		Republican	1911–1912	Detroit	[7][72]
James W. Hanley		Republican	1913–1918	Detroit	[7][73]
Arthur E. Wood		Republican	1919–1926	Detroit	[7][74]
Joseph Bahorski		Republican	1927–1928	Detroit	[7][75]
George Kolowich		Republican	1929–1930	Hamtramck	[7][76]
Charles A. Roxborough		Republican	1931–1932	Detroit	[7][77]
Leo G. Karwick		Democratic	1933–1934	Hamtramck	[7][78]
John Mankowski		Democratic	1935–1936	Hamtramck	[7][79]
Charles C. Diggs Sr.		Democratic	1937–1944	Detroit	[7][80]
Henry R. Kozak		Democratic	1945–1950	Hamtramck	[7][81]
Charles C. Diggs Jr.		Democratic	1951–1954	Detroit	[7][82]
Cora Brown		Democratic	1955–1956	Detroit	[7][83]
Basil W. Brown		Democratic	1957–1964	Detroit	[7][84]
Stanley F. Rozycki		Democratic	1965–1974	Detroit	[7][85]
Basil W. Brown		Democratic	1975–1982	Detroit	[7][84]
Jackie Vaughn III		Democratic	1983–1994	Detroit	[7][86]
Henry Stallings II		Democratic	1995–1998	Detroit	Resigned.[7][87]
Raymond M. Murphy		Democratic	1998–2002	Detroit	[7][88][87]
Irma Clark-Coleman		Democratic	2003–2010	Detroit	[7][89]
Morris Hood III		Democratic	2011–2018	Detroit	[7][90]
Sylvia Santana		Democratic	2019–2022	Detroit	[7][91]
Stephanie Chang		Democratic	2023–present	Detroit	[92]

Recent election results

2022

2022 Michigan Senate election, District 3^[93]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Stephanie Chang	22,452	82.8
	Democratic	Toinu Reeves	4,659	17.2
Total votes			27,111	100
General election
	Democratic	Stephanie Chang	61,247	85.7
	Working Class	Linda Rayburn	10,243	14.3
Total votes			71,490	100
	Democratic hold

2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 3^[93]

Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Sylvia Santana	12,646	41.5
	Democratic	Gary Woronchak	11,785	38.7
	Democratic	Anita Belle	4,367	14.3
	Democratic	Terry Burrell	1,668	5.5
Total votes			30,466	100
General election
	Democratic	Sylvia Santana	58,405	81.8
	Republican	Kathy Stecker	10,928	15.3
	Working Class	Hali McEachern	2,095	2.9
Total votes			71,428	100
	Democratic hold

2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 3^[93]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Morris Hood III (incumbent)	45,546	80.4
	Republican	Matthew Keller	11,086	19.6
Total votes			56,632	100
	Democratic hold

Federal and statewide results

Year	Office	Results[94]
2020	President	Biden 81.6 – 17.2%
2018	Senate	Stabenow 81.7 – 16.3%
	Governor	Whitmer 82.4 – 15.3%
2016	President	Clinton 80.7 – 16.1%
2014	Senate	Peters 81.6 – 15.6%
	Governor	Schauer 74.9 – 23.5%
2012	President	Obama 85.0 – 14.4%
	Senate	Stabenow 85.7 – 11.9%

Historical district boundaries

Map	Description	Apportionment Plan	Notes
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Hamtramck	1964 Apportionment Plan	[95]
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Highland Park	1972 Apportionment Plan	[96]
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part)	1982 Apportionment Plan	[97]
	Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) River Rouge	1992 Apportionment Plan	[98]
	Wayne County (part) Dearborn Detroit (part) River Rouge	2001 Apportionment Plan	[99]
	Wayne County (part) Dearborn Detroit (part) Melvindale	2011 Apportionment Plan	[100]