Michigan

Legislative Partisan Composition - Election Results (unofficial results)

	Total Seats	Democrat	Republican	Indep/Other	Vacant	Undecided
House	110	51	59	0	0	0
Senate	38	12	26	0	0	0

Governor - Election (unofficial results)

Party	Firstname	Lastname	Candidate	Incumbent	Winner
R	Rick	Snyder

Initiatives and Referenda (General Election) (Click on title to expand/collapse for summary)

Proposal 3		A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution to Establish a Minimum Standard for Renewable Energy
Type:	Initiative	Status:	Fail (37.7% (unofficial))
Summary:	This proposal would: - Require utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, by 2025. - Cap at 1% per year utility rate increases charged to consumers to achieve compliance with the renewable energy standard. - Allow annual extensions of the deadline to meet the 25% standard in order to prevent rate increases over 1%. - Require the legislature to enact laws to encourage the use of Michigan made equipment.

Proposal 1		A Referendum on Public Act 4 of 2011 – The Emergency Manager Law
Type:	Popular Referendum	Status:	Fail (47.3% (unofficial))
Summary:	NOTE: A majority "yes" vote approves the law. Public Act 4 of 2011 would: - Establish criteria to determine the financial condition of local government units, including school districts. - Authorize state-appointed review team to enter into a consent decree with a local government, with local government approval. - Authorize Governor to appoint an emergency manager (EM) upon confirmation of a financial emergency, and allow the EM to act in place of local government’s governing body and chief administrative officer. - Require EM to develop a financial plan and issue orders to resolve the financial emergency, including modification or termination of contracts and collective bargaining agreements. - Repeal Public Act 72 of 1990.

Proposal 2		Protect Our Jobs
Type:	Initiative	Status:	Fail (42.6% (unofficial))
Summary:	This proposal would: - Grant public and private employees the constitutional right to organize and bargain collectively through labor unions. - Invalidate existing or future state or local laws that limit the ability to join unions and bargain collectively, and to negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements, including employees’ financial support of their labor unions. Laws may be enacted to prohibit public employees from striking. - Override state laws that regulate hours and conditions of employment to the extent that those laws conflict with collective bargaining agreements. - Define "employer" as a person or entity employing one or more employees.

Proposal 4		A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution to Establish the Michigan Quality Home Care Council
Type:	Initiative	Status:	Fail (44.2% (unofficial))
Summary:	This proposal would: - Establish the Michigan Quality Home Care Council (MQHCC) to provide training for in-home care workers, create a registry of workers who pass background checks, and provide financial services to patients to help manage the cost of hiring in-home care workers. - Allow in-home care workers to bargain collectively with the MQHCC to set minimum compensation standards and terms and conditions of employment. - Preserve patients’ rights to hire in-home care workers who are not referred from the MQHCC registry. Workers are not State employees for any other purpose as a result of this proposal.

Proposal 6		A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution Regarding Construction of International Bridges and Tunnels
Type:	Initiative	Status:	Fail (40.8% (unofficial))
Summary:	This proposal would require the approval of a majority of voters at a statewide election and in each municipality where "new international bridges or tunnels for motor vehicles" are to be located before the State of Michigan may expend state funds or resources for acquiring land, designing, soliciting bids for, constructing, financing, or promoting new international bridges or tunnels. "New international bridges or tunnels for motor vehicles" means, "any bridge or tunnel which is not open to the public and serving traffic as of January 1, 2012."

Proposal 5		A Proposal to Amend the State Constitution to Limit the Enactment of New Taxes by State Government
Type:	Initiative	Status:	Fail (31.2% (unofficial))
Summary:	This proposal would prohibit state government from imposing new taxes, expanding the base of taxation, or increasing the rate of taxation, unless there is a vote of 2/3 of the members of each house of the legislature, or there is a statewide vote of Michigan electors. This section shall in no way be construed to limit or modify tax limitations otherwise created in this Constitution.

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The following chambers do not have legislative elections in 2012: Alabama Senate and House, Louisiana Senate and House, Maryland Senate and House, Michigan Senate, Mississippi Senate and House, New Jersey Senate and Assembly, Virginia Senate and House. The current party composition, for these states, as represented on this map reflects their most recent election. Nebraska is a unicameral legislature.