Election Results

This post has quick results, more detailed analysis will come later. Republican turnout was much higher than democrat across the state.

Governor and Congress
State Senate
State House
Kalamazoo County

Governor:
Republican: Snyder 36%, Hoekstra 27%, Cox 23%, Bouchard 12%, George 2%. What a disaster. Four more years of failure. More thoughts later.
Democrat: Bernero 59%, Dillon 41%. No shock given the unions all-out push for Bernero.

Congress:
1. Benishek leads Allen by 1 votes! Recount!
2. Huizinga beats Riemersma by about 800 votes.
3. Amash 40%, Heacock 26%, Hardiman 24%. Club for Growth and conservatives win a big one here.
6. Upton 57%, Hoogendyk 43%. It is shocking that this race was this close given Upton's 20:1 funding advantage. There was a tide of anti-incumbent sentiment that nobody, including me, saw coming. This was the closest that any challenger has come to Upton, far surpassing Shugars in 2002. What if Jack had had more support?
7. Walberg 58%, Rooney 32%. Not close. Hometown beats carpetbagger.
9. Rachowski 42%, Welday 28%. Welday sent me 500 emails, and it did him no good.
12. Levin 76%, Switalski 24%. Not close.
13. Clarke 47%, Kilpatrick 41%. Goodbye and good riddance.

State Senate:
7. Colbeck 31%, Whyman 27%, Mufakh 22%, Osterman 19%. Right to Life endorsement win this one. Munfakh's money didn't help him.
10. Paul Gieleghem beats Carl Marlinga by 200 votes.
11. Brandenburg 38%, Drolet 28%, Meltzer 27%. Surprising given Brandenburg's geographic disadvantage.
12. Marleau 32% Russell 25%. No surprise.
18. Warren beats Byrnes. Ann Arbor wins it.
20. Republican: Schuitmaker 53%, Wenke 28%, DeShazor 19%. Endorsements win this one for Tonya. She wins almost every precinct. Wenke remains disliked. He also lost his precinct delegate race, finishing last!
Democrat: Jones 63%, Totten 27%. About what this blog predicted.
25. Pavlov 42%, Courser 33%, Hager 26%. No big surprise.
29. Lagrand 58%, Dean 42%. Not a big surprise.
33. Calley 57%, Trebesh 43%. Trebesh's money made it somewhat close.

State House:
61. Thomas Batten got 2910 votes. No results how many write-in votes Grant Taylor got yet. I'll guess 500.
79. Pscholka 65%, Petersen 20%. No Tea Party here. Interesting Pscholka did better than his boos Upton.
80. Nesbitt 50%, Hartmann 17%. Good. Right to Life wins again.
87. Callton 47%, Fabiano 27%. Right to Life wins another one.
105. Dennis Lennox crushed with only 7%! Ouch!

Kalamazoo County:
County Commission:
3. Barnard 60%, Sweet 40%
6. Seals 63.5%, Thompson 36.5%. Incumbent democrat loses. Thompson's age was likely a factor, as he is 80-something and has been acting eratic.
11. Rogowski 58%, Cross 42%.
12. McCormick 52%, Nieuwenhuis 30%, Spicer 18%. Shocker. Nieuwenhuis was the incumbent. McCormick was elected an Oshtemo trustee in 2008 based on straight ticket voting. He has no yard signs and no visible campaign. Did he turn out the nutty democrat base in a low turnout election? Things just got easier for Republican Brandt Iden, who got more than twice as many votes as the democrats combined.
16. Gisler 57%, O'Keefe 43%. Conservative wins.

Millages pass in Comstock Twp, K Twp, Comstock Schools, fail in Comstock schools.

Kansas:
Todd Tiahrt loses narrowly.
Tim Huelskamp wins! Club for Growth wins again.
Mike Pompeo wins! Club for Growth wins again.
Kris Kobach wins! Kobach authored the Arizona immigration law.

Missouri:
Missouri says HELL NO to Obamacare 71% to 29%!