# Michigan's 7th Senate district

Michigan's 7th Senate district is one of 38 districts in the Michigan Senate. It has been represented by Democrat Jeremy Moss since 2023, succeeding fellow Democrat Dayna Polehanki.

## Geography

District 7 encompasses parts of Oakland and Wayne counties.

### 2011 Apportionment Plan

District 7, as dictated by the 2011 Apportionment Plan, covered the immediate western suburbs of Detroit in Wayne County, including Livonia, Northville, the city and township of Plymouth, Canton, and Wayne.
The district was largely located within Michigan's 11th congressional district, also extending into the 13th district. It overlapped with the 11th, 16th, 19th, 20th, and 21st districts of the Michigan House of Representatives.

## List of senators

| Senator | Party | Dates | Residence | Notes |
| Vincent L. Bradford | Democratic | 1839 | Niles | |
| Samuel Etheridge | Democratic | 1839–1840 | Coldwater | |
| Elijah Lacey | Unknown | 1840–1841 | Niles | |
| John S. Barry | Democratic | 1841 | Constantine | |
| Ephraim B. Danforth | Democratic | 1847–1848 | Mason | |
| Rix Robinson | Democratic | 1847–1849 | Ada | |
| Adam L. Roof | Democratic | 1849–1850 | Lyons | |
| John Bowne | Democratic | 1850–1852 | Hickory Corners | |
| David Sturgis | Democratic | 1851–1852 | DeWitt | |
| The 1850 Michigan Constitution takes effect, changing the district from a multi-member district to a single-member district. ||||||
| Daniel Hixon | Democratic | 1853–1854 | Clinton | |
| William H. Pattison | Republican | 1855–1856 | Saline | |
| Sylvester Abel | Republican | 1857–1858 | Ann Arbor | |
| Elihu B. Pond | Democratic | 1859–1860 | Ann Arbor | |
| Thomas D. Lane | Republican | 1861–1862 | Washtenaw County | |
| William Jay | Republican | 1863–1865 | Whitmore Lake | |
| George Peters | Republican | 1867–1868 | Petersburg | |
| Edward G. Morton | Democratic | 1869–1872 | Monroe | |
| Nathan G. King | Republican | 1873–1874 | Brooklyn | |
| Lucius D. Hawkins | Democratic | 1875–1876 | Parma | |
| Michael Shoemaker | Democratic | 1877–1878 | Jackson | |
| Hiram C. Hodge | Greenback | 1879–1880 | Concord | |
| William F. Goodwin | Republican | 1881–1882 | Concord | |
| Michael Shoemaker | Democratic | 1883–1886 | Jackson | In 1882 and 1884, Shoemaker was elected on a Fusionist ticket. |
| Perry Mayo | Republican | 1887–1888 | Battle Creek | |
| Alfred Milnes | Republican | 1889–1892 | Coldwater | |
| Augustus Jewell | Republican | 1893–1896 | Dowagiac | |
| Edwin A. Blakeslee | Republican | 1897–1900 | Galien | |
| Frederick F. Sovereign | Republican | 1901–1904 | Three Oaks | |
| James G. Hayden | Republican | 1905–1906 | Cassopolis | |
| James H. Kinnane | Republican | 1907–1908 | Dowagiac | |
| Charles E. White | Republican | 1909–1912 | Niles | |
| Leon D. Case | Democratic | 1913–1914 | Watervliet | |
| Edgar A. Planck | Republican | 1915–1918 | Union | |
| Roy Clark | Republican | 1919–1922 | Eau Claire | |
| Harry H. Whiteley | Republican | 1923–1926 | Dowagiac | |
| George S. Barnard | Republican | 1927–1930 | Benton Harbor | |
| James G. Bonine | Republican | 1931–1932 | Cassopolis | |
| Leon D. Case | Democratic | 1933–1936 | Watervliet | |
| Carroll B. Jones | Democratic | 1937–1938 | Marcellus | |
| John T. Hammond | Republican | 1939–1942 | Benton Harbor | |
| G. Elwood Bonine | Republican | 1943–1952 | Vandalia | |
| Robert E. Faulkner | Republican | 1953–1958 | Coloma | |
| Harry Litowich | Republican | 1959–1964 | Benton Harbor | |
| Raymond D. Dzendzel | Democratic | 1965–1970 | Detroit | |
| Jack Faxon | Democratic | 1971–1982 | Detroit | |
| James R. DeSana | Democratic | 1983–1986 | Wyandotte | |
| Christopher D. Dingell | Democratic | 1987–2002 | Trenton | |
| Bruce Patterson | Republican | 2003–2010 | Canton | |
| Patrick Colbeck | Republican | 2011–2018 | Canton | |
| Dayna Polehanki | Democratic | 2019–2022 | Livonia | |
| Jeremy Moss | Democratic | 2023–present | Royal Oak | |

## Recent election results
### 2018

2018 Michigan Senate election, District 7 :
| Primary election |||||
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Democratic | Dayna Polehanki | 27,826 | 73.5 |
| | Democratic | Ghulam Qadir | 10,016 | 26.5 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 37,842 | 100 |
| General election |||||
| | Democratic | Dayna Polehanki | 69,434 | 50.6 |
| | Republican | Laura Cox | 65,001 | 47.3 |
| | Libertarian | Joseph LeBlanc | 2,892 | 2.1 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 137,327 | 100 |
| | Democratic gain from Republican | Democratic gain from Republican | Democratic gain from Republican | Democratic gain from Republican |

### 2014

2014 Michigan Senate election, District 7 :
| Primary election |||||
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Republican | Patrick Colbeck (incumbent) | 14,494 | 75.1 |
| | Republican | Matthew Edwards | 4,807 | 24.9 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 19,301 | 100 |
| General election |||||
| | Republican | Patrick Colbeck (incumbent) | 52,567 | 52.7 |
| | Democratic | Dian Slavens | 47,110 | 47.3 |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 99,677 | 100 |
| | Republican hold | Republican hold | Republican hold | Republican hold |

### Federal and statewide results

| Year | Office | Results |
| 2020 | President | Biden 54.8 – 43.7% |
| 2018 | Senate | Stabenow 54.2 – 44.5% |
| 2018 | Governor | Whitmer 55.2 – 42.7% |
| 2016 | President | Clinton 48.4 – 46.6% |
| 2014 | Senate | Peters 51.4 – 44.8% |
| 2014 | Governor | Snyder 59.4 – 39.0% |
| 2012 | President | Obama 49.7 – 49.6% |
| 2012 | Senate | Stabenow 54.6 – 42.3% |

## Historical district boundaries

| Description | Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) | 1964 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Detroit (part) | 1972 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Allen Park Brownstown Township Ecorse Gibraltar Grosse Ile Township Lincoln Park River Rouge Riverview Rockwood Southgate Trenton Woodhaven Wyandotte | 1982 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Ecorse Gibraltar Grosse Ile Township Lincoln Park Melvindale Riverview Southgate Taylor Trenton Wyandotte | 1992 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Belleville Brownstown Township Canton Township Flat Rock Gibraltar Grosse Ile Township Huron Township Northville (part) Northville Township Plymouth Plymouth Township Rockwood Sumpter Township Trenton Van Buren Township Woodhaven | 2001 Apportionment Plan |
| Wayne County (part) Canton Township Livonia Northville Northville Township Plymouth Plymouth Township Wayne | 2011 Apportionment Plan |