The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also in this race: Lydia Christensen (Libertarian), Tim Long (U.S. Taxpayers), Douglas P. Marsh (Green) and Walter P. Kristy (Natural Law).
Official candidate list: Oakland County Clerk; Wayne County Clerk, November 3, 2026 General Election Official Candidate List (printed 9/10/2026): the same six U.S. Senate names. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.
The seat
Gary Peters
Democrat · Holds the seat now
First took office 2009 · Age 67
Not on the November ballot
How to vote in Michigan
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 15 days before online or by mail, or same-day through Election Day in person.
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How they won the primary
The primary · 1,537,628 votes
- Abdul El-Sayed Won: 48.4% 744,952
- Haley Stevens: 47.6% 731,160
- Mallory McMorrow (withdrawn): 4.0% 61,516
The primary · 883,328 votes
- Mike Rogers Won: Unopposed 883,328
Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Michigan Secretary of State official primary results. Certified August 24, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.
The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $49M
- Outside money
- $180M
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $34.9M of the race's $180M was spent on candidates not listed here. No outside money is on file for or against the other 4 names on this ballot.
Where each candidate's money comes from
Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.
Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Mike Rogers $3.2M.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Also filed for this seat
18 filedNot on the November ballot
- Gary PetersDemocrat$7.9M
- Mallory McMorrowDemocrat$11M
- Genevieve ScottRepublican$83K
- Bernadette SmithRepublican$77K
- Haley StevensDemocrat$12M
Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.
Ballot status not confirmed
None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.
Filed with the FEC for this seat. No source on record says whether they qualified for the November ballot: independent and minor-party candidates qualify through the state, often by petition, and the FEC does not track whether they did.
How this seat voted last time
D+1.7 in 2020
- Gary Peters Won: 49.9%
- John James: 48.2%
5,479,720 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 1.9%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.
Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2026 and July 15, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.