2022 Michigan gubernatorial election



The 2022 Michigan gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the Governor of Michigan, concurrently with various state and local elections across the United States. Incumbent governor Gretchen Whitmer of the Democratic Party won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican former Detroit police chief James Craig by an extremely narrow margin of 0.19%, or only 7321 votes out of almost four million cast. The race was not called by most news outlets until nine days after the election, on November 17, due to the close margin triggering a mandatory recount. This was the closest race in the 2022 United States gubernatorial election cycle.