RedBox Research · Election night, November 3, 2026
Michigan Governor
Statewide: the count beside our final poll and our turnout model
- Cook rating
- Lean D
as of 2026-10-28
- Our final poll
- Benson +6
D+5.8 among all respondents
- The count
- Polls open
Polls close 9 p.m. ET · the state's results
- Against our final poll
- Once votes are counted
- Turnout against our model
- Our model expects 4,314,409 votes
56.1% of 7,685,536 registered voters
County counts appear here once the state reports them.
Against our final poll is the count's Democratic margin less our final poll's (each the Democrat's share less the Republican's; the poll's shares include undecided respondents). Early counts lean toward whichever ballots a state counts first, mail or Election Day, so read it beside how much of the expected vote is in.
Turnout against our model holds the votes counted against our voter-file turnout model (as of 2026-10-07): below 100% while the count runs; once every precinct reports, above 100% is more voters than we expected.
County turnout is not compared here: our model places only 83% of Michigan's expected voters in a county.
By county we have no vote-share model outside Florida and North Carolina, so counties show the count as the state reports it.
The count is unofficial: each state's own election-night results, read every few minutes; it shows once the state posts votes after its first polls close.