FEC WINNER INDICATOR
Debbie Stabenow
2,214,478 votes · 52.26%
- Final vote total
- 4,237,271
- Final margin
- 275,660
- Decision stage
- General election
- Certification
- Official historical result
Official certified result · November 6, 2018
2018 Michigan U.S. Senate Election Results.
The FEC publication records Debbie Stabenow as the winner. These are historical certified totals—not an election-night projection or race call.
Michigan U.S. SenateGeneral election8 general candidatesSource: FEC
Official candidate totals
General election results
Fusion-party lines are combined only when the official publication reports the same named candidate on multiple party lines. Generic write-in, blank, invalid, and other non-person rows remain separate below.
| Candidate | Party label(s) | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debbie StabenowIncumbentWinner | D | 2,214,478 | 52.26% |
| John James | R | 1,938,818 | 45.76% |
| Marcia Squier | GRE | 40,204 | 0.95% |
| George E. Huffman III | UST | 27,251 | 0.64% |
| John Howard Wilhelm | NLP | 16,502 | 0.39% |
| Tom Bagwell | W | 10 | 0.0% |
| Valerie L. Willis | W | 5 | 0.0% |
| Tim Yow | W(LIB)/W | 3 | 0.0% |
Election.org calculation: the final margin is 275,660 votes, subtracting the second-highest published final total from the highest. The official publication does not publish this page's margin field separately.
Show primary and nomination results (8 candidates)
Debbie StabenowIncumbent
D primary1,045,450100.0%
R primary518,56454.67%
GRE primaryNot reported—
UST primaryNot reported—
NLP primaryNot reported—
Tim Yow
W(LIB)/W primary152100.0%
R primary429,88545.32%
William F. White
W(R) primary570.01%
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Yes. This is the FEC's biennial Federal Elections 2018 publication, compiled from results officially reported by state and territory election offices.
Does Election.org call races?
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Why can totals differ by column?
Primaries, general elections, runoffs, fusion-party lines, and ranked-choice rounds are distinct stages. Election.org does not collapse them.
What does a blank mean?
The official workbook did not publish a value for that candidate and stage. Blank values remain blank instead of becoming zero.
Sources & notes
Source & provenance
PublisherFederal Election Commission ↗
Underlying sourceState elections offices
Publication2019-10
StatusOfficial · certified
Workbook checked2026-08-25
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