# 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.
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.

### 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.
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.

## List of senators

| Senator | Party | Dates | Residence | Notes |
| Calvin Britain | Democratic | 1835–1837 | St. Joseph | |
| John S. Barry | Democratic | 1835–1838 | Constantine | |
| Horace H. Comstock | Democratic | 1835–1838 | Comstock | |
| Vincent L. Bradford | Democratic | 1838 | Niles | |
| Elijah F. Cook | Democratic | 1839 | Farmington | |
| Thomas J. Drake | Whig | 1839–1841 | Flint | |
| Stephen V. R. Trowbridge | Whig | 1839–1841 | Birmingham | |
| John P. LeRoy | Whig | 1840–1841 | Pontiac | |
| Elisha P. Champlin | Whig | 1842 | Jonesville | |
| John Burch | Democratic | 1842–1843 | Monroe | |
| William L. Greenly | Democratic | 1842–1843 | Adrian | |
| Michael A. Patterson | Democratic | 1844–1845 | Tecumseh | |
| William T. Howell | Democratic | 1843–1846 | Hillsdale | |
| Jefferson G. Thurber | Democratic | 1844–1847 | Monroe | |
| Rufus Kibbee | Democratic | 1846–1847 | Medina | |
| George Coe | Whig | 1847 | Coldwater | |
| John P. Cook | Democratic | 1847–1848 | Hillsdale | |
| Daniel D. Sinclair | Democratic | 1848 | Adrian | |
| Enos G. Berry | Democratic | 1848–1849 | Quincy | |
| Nelson Dunham | Democratic | 1848–1849 | Dundee | |
| Levi Baxter | Whig | 1849–1850 | Jonesville | Also backed by the Free Soilers. |
| Fielder S. Snow | Democratic | 1849–1850 | Clinton | |
| Isaac P. Christiancy | Democratic | 1850 | Monroe | |
| Isaac P. Christiancy | Free Soil | 1851–1852 | Monroe | |
| Alfred French | Democratic | 1850–1852 | Bronson | |
| John Barber | Democratic | 1851–1852 | Adrian | |
| Henry S. Mead | Democratic | 1851–1852 | Hillsdale | |
| The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district. ||||||
| Henry Fralick | Democratic | 1853–1854 | Plymouth | |
| Nathaniel Ladd | Republican | 1855–1856 | Dearbornville | |
| Henry Ledyard | Democratic | 1857–1858 | Detroit | |
| Thornton F. Brodhead | Democratic | 1859–1860 | Trenton | |
| Henry T. Backus | Republican | 1861–1862 | Detroit | |
| William E. Warner | Democratic | 1863–1864 | Rawsonville | |
| Adam Minnis | Democratic | 1865–1866 | Wayne | |
| Oliver C. Abell | Republican | 1867–1868 | Wayne | |
| Elliott T. Slocum | Republican | 1869–1870 | Trenton | |
| Robert V. Briggs | Democratic | 1871–1872 | Wyandotte | |
| William C. Sutton | Republican | 1873–1874 | Ecorse | |
| James I. David | Democratic | 1875–1876 | Ecorse | |
| Matthew Markey | Democratic | 1877–1878 | Wayne | |
| William W. Duffield | Democratic | 1879–1880 | Inkster | |
| Thomas Morrison | Republican | 1881–1882 | Wayne | |
| James M. Hueston | Democratic | 1883–1886 | Northville | |
| Bernard O'Reilly | Democratic | 1887–1888 | Detroit | Also backed by the Independent Labor Party. |
| Anthony Grosfield | Democratic | 1889–1890 | Detroit | |
| Peter E. Park | Democratic | 1891–1892 | Detroit | |
| Joseph R. McLaughlin | Republican | 1893–1896 | Detroit | |
| Charles W. Moore | Republican | 1897–1898 | Detroit | |
| George F. Monaghan | Democratic | 1899–1900 | Detroit | |
| James E. Scripps | Republican | 1903–1904 | Detroit | |
| Noble Ashley | Republican | 1905–1906 | Detroit | |
| Joseph Edward Bland | Republican | 1907–1908 | Detroit | |
| John Donald M. MacKay | Republican | 1909–1910 | Detroit | |
| Guy A. Miller | Republican | 1911–1912 | Detroit | |
| James W. Hanley | Republican | 1913–1918 | Detroit | |
| Arthur E. Wood | Republican | 1919–1926 | Detroit | |
| Joseph Bahorski | Republican | 1927–1928 | Detroit | |
| George Kolowich | Republican | 1929–1930 | Hamtramck | |
| Charles A. Roxborough | Republican | 1931–1932 | Detroit | |
| Leo G. Karwick | Democratic | 1933–1934 | Hamtramck | |
| John Mankowski | Democratic | 1935–1936 | Hamtramck | |
| Charles C. Diggs Sr. | Democratic | 1937–1944 | Detroit | |
| Henry R. Kozak | Democratic | 1945–1950 | Hamtramck | |
| Charles C. Diggs Jr. | Democratic | 1951–1954 | Detroit | |
| Cora Brown | Democratic | 1955–1956 | Detroit | |
| Basil W. Brown | Democratic | 1957–1964 | Detroit | |
| Stanley F. Rozycki | Democratic | 1965–1974 | Detroit | |
| Basil W. Brown | Democratic | 1975–1982 | Detroit | |
| Jackie Vaughn III | Democratic | 1983–1994 | Detroit | |
| Henry Stallings II | Democratic | 1995–1998 | Detroit | Resigned. |
| Raymond M. Murphy | Democratic | 1998–2002 | Detroit | |
| Irma Clark-Coleman | Democratic | 2003–2010 | Detroit | |
| Morris Hood III | Democratic | 2011–2018 | Detroit | |
| Sylvia Santana | Democratic | 2019–2022 | Detroit | |
| Stephanie Chang | Democratic | 2023–present | Detroit | |

## Recent election results
### 2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 3 :
| Primary election |||||
| Party | 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 | Total votes | 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 | Total votes | Total votes | 71,428 | 100 |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |

### 2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 3 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Morris Hood III (incumbent) | 45,546 | 80.4 |
| | Republican | Matthew Keller | 11,086 | 19.6 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 56,632 | 100 |
| | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold | Democratic hold |

### Federal and statewide results

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

## Historical district boundaries

| Description | Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Hamtramck | 1964 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) Highland Park | 1972 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) | 1982 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) River Rouge | 1992 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Dearborn Detroit (part) River Rouge | 2001 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Dearborn Detroit (part) Melvindale | 2011 Apportionment Plan |