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In 2022, Democrats made history when Michigan voters reelected Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and flipped the state House and Senate from GOP control, delivering the first Democratic trifecta in 40 years.
Michigan: 103rd Michigan Legislature: November 5, 2024 (House) November 8, 2022 (Senate) Minnesota: 94th Minnesota Legislature: November 5, 2024 (House) November 8, 2022 (Senate) Mississippi: 2024–2028 Mississippi Legislature: November 7, 2023 (House) November 7, 2023 (Senate) Missouri: 103rd Missouri General Assembly: November 5, 2024 (House)
LANSING — The last time Michigan had a Democratic trifecta during a lame-duck legislative session was 1934. That year, Michigan's longest-serving U.S. senator — the late Carl Levin — was ...
The Michigan Democratic Party controls all four statewide offices and a majority in the Michigan Senate. Democrats hold both of Michigan's U.S. Senate seats, six of the state's 13 U.S. House seats, and majorities on the elected governing boards of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University as well as a majority on the State Board of Education.
From 2017 to 2019 and since 2025 in the United States, the Republican Party has held the Senate, House of Representatives, and the presidency. [1] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, President Donald Trump, and Vice President (President of the Senate) Mike Pence, all Republicans, are pictured during the first trifecta in the 115th United States Congress.
Whitmer, who is considered a rising Democratic star on the national level, spent the first six years of her tenure working with a Republican-controlled Legislature. But a Democratic-led state government trifecta was necessary the last two years to pass such things as gun control measures and tax policy, she said.
Republicans will take power in the state House in the spring, after two years of a Democrat trifecta. They will control the House 58-52 for the next two years. Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said ...
Year Statewide map Congressional delegation 1973–1982 1/3/1973–1/3/1974: 7 Democrats, 12 Republicans 1/3/1974–1/3/1975: 9 Democrats, 10 Republicans