Michigan Sample Ballot 2026: Every Candidate on Your November Ballot

Callie Barr is an attorney and veterans advocate raised in Traverse City and Cheboygan who became her husband's caretaker and advocate after his Marine Corps combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, per her campaign site. She was the 2024 Democratic nominee in this district and is making a second run, per Interlochen Public Radio. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Jack Bergman is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general and former commercial airline pilot, first elected to this seat in 2016, per Michigan Advance. He is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Ben Ambrose served nearly 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps with multiple combat tours and later advised the Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense, per Michigan Advance. He grew up on a small farm in Hesperia, per Michigan Advance. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

John Moolenaar is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, a chemist by training who served in both the Michigan House and Senate before his 2014 election to Congress, per Michigan Advance. He chairs the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party and serves on the Appropriations Committee, per his campaign site. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Scholten represents Michigan's 3rd Congressional District and previously worked as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, per the campaign site. In 2022 she became the first Democratic woman to represent West Michigan in Congress, flipping a seat that had been held by Republicans for 50 years, per the campaign site.

Terri DeBoer is a broadcast meteorologist who spent more than 30 years delivering forecasts on West Michigan television, most recently at FOX 17, before ending her TV career in early 2026 to run for this seat, per Michigan Advance and the Detroit News. An author and Byron Center resident, she grew up in a military family, per her campaign site. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Sean McCann is a Michigan state senator from Kalamazoo, term-limited in the Legislature, who previously served in the Michigan House and on the Kalamazoo City Commission, per Michigan Advance and Michigan Public. He is endorsed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, per Michigan Advance, and out-raised the district's sitting representative in early 2026, per the Detroit News. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Bill Huizenga is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, in the House since 2011 after serving in the Michigan House, and co-owns Huizenga Ready-Mix, a family gravel business based in Zeeland, per Michigan Advance. A lifelong Ottawa County resident, he raised five children in Southwest Michigan, per his campaign site. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Tim Walberg is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and a former pastor who served in the Michigan House from 1983 to 1999, per Michigan Advance. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Debbie Dingell is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, first elected in 2014, and previously served as an executive in community and government relations at General Motors, per Michigan Advance. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Heather Smiley is a retired Ford Motor Company employee with more than 30 years in product development, strategy, and analytics, per Michigan Advance. She was the 2024 Republican nominee in this district and holds degrees from Central Michigan University, per her campaign site. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

William Lawrence is the Democratic nominee for this district, a community organizer, a co-founder of the climate group Sunrise Movement, and coordinator of the MI Rent Is Too Damn High coalition, per Michigan Advance. He took about 43% of the August 4 Democratic vote in a three-way field, a race the Associated Press called that night. Raised in Lansing, he also co-founded the Mid-Michigan Tenant Resource Center and is endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, per his campaign site. His signature proposal is a 12-month federal moratorium on new hyperscale data centers.

Tom Barrett is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and the Republican nominee for re-election, a U.S. Army veteran of more than 20 years who served as a helicopter pilot, with earlier service in the Michigan Senate, per Michigan Advance. He serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure and Veterans Affairs committees and lives in Charlotte, per his campaign site.

Kristen McDonald Rivet is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, a Bay City resident first elected in 2024 who previously served in the Michigan Senate, per Michigan Advance. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Ray Pooley is a third-generation manufacturer who works as a CNC machinist and programmer, per Michigan Advance. He has 15 years of hands-on manufacturing experience and campaigns on bringing manufacturing jobs back for blue-collar workers, per his campaign site. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Lisa McClain is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and chair of the House Republican Conference; before her 2020 election she worked at American Express for 11 years and at the Hantz Group for two decades, per Michigan Advance. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Christina Bertrand Hines is a former special victims prosecutor and lifelong Macomb County resident who has prosecuted hate crimes, cold case sexual assaults, homicides, and human trafficking cases, per her campaign site and Michigan Advance. She is endorsed by Emily's List, per that organization's announcement. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Michael Bouchard is a U.S. Army National Guard captain and Bronze Star recipient who served in the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with missions to the southern border and Iraq, per his campaign site. He is the son of longtime Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard and is endorsed by President Donald Trump, per his campaign site and the Detroit News. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Jeremy Moss is a Michigan state senator and President Pro Tem of the Michigan Senate, and the state's first openly gay senator, per his campaign site. An Oakland County native who chaired the Senate Elections Committee, he is endorsed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, per Michigan Advance, and by the Detroit Free Press editorial board. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Baker serves as mayor of Troy, Michigan, a position held since 2019, per the campaign site. Baker previously served on the Troy City Council starting in 2015, per the campaign site. The campaign site says Baker and spouse Bethany have lived in Oakland County for about seventeen years, per the campaign site.

Rashida Tlaib is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district; she was the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan Legislature and the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, per Michigan Advance. Raised in Southwest Detroit as the eldest of 14 children, she says she has secured more than $68 million in direct federal funding for local communities, per her campaign site. She appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

Donavan McKinney led the August 4 Democratic contest in this district 51.9% to 48.1% with about 79% of ballots counted, a race the Associated Press had not called as of the following morning. He is a Michigan state representative from Detroit, elected to the state House in 2022, who previously worked as an organizer with SEIU Healthcare Michigan, per Michigan Advance. A lifelong Detroiter and Detroit Public Schools product, he is endorsed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, per Bridge Detroit.