Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2012

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110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives
56 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	James "Jase" Bolger	Tim Greimel
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader since		January 1, 2013
Leader's seat	63rd District	29th District
Seats before	64	46
Seats after	59	51
Seat change	5	5
Popular vote	2,036,169	2,387,882
Percentage	46%	53%

Speaker before election

James "Jase" Bolger
Republican

Elected Speaker

James "Jase" Bolger
Republican

The 2012 Michigan House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2012, with partisan primaries to select the parties' nominees in the various districts on August 7, 2012.

State Representative Roy Schmidt was defeated for re-election after assisting in engineering an election-rigging scandal by which he switched from the Democratic to the Republican Party and recruited a straw candidate to run as a Democrat in order to ensure a swift re-election. The scandal ultimately cost him his seat in the House. Speaker of the House James "Jase" Bolger was also implicated in the scandal, and his race for the 63rd District was made competitive because of his role in it. The matter was referred to Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, serving as a one-person grand jury, who ruled in August 2013 that neither Schmidt nor Bogler had committed a crime.

Due to the term limit provisions in the Michigan Constitution, the following Members were ineligible to stand for election again to the House:

80th District
(Allegan (excluding Dorr Township, Leighton Township, Wayland, Wayland Township))

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