1986 Michigan Secretary of State election
The 1986 Michigan Secretary of State election was held on November 4, 1986. Incumbent Democrat Richard H. Austin defeated Republican nominee Weldon Yeager with 70.2% of the vote.
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General election
Candidates
Major party candidates
- Richard H. Austin, Democratic
- Weldon Yeager, Republican
- Brian Wright, Independent
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Richard H. Austin | 1,631,249 | 70.2 | |
Republican | Weldon Yeager | 674,417 | 29.02 | |
Independent | Brian Wright | 18,368 | 0.80 | |
Write-ins | 30 | 0.00 | ||
Total votes | 2,324,064 | 100 | ||
Democratic hold |
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gollark: Well, yes, it isn't perfect, through broadly speaking I think stuff like people not getting food is more down to people not caring than the structure of society.
gollark: And yet we have a mostly functioning system which produces mostly enough food, and is able to make the mind-breakingly complex supply chains for that food work.
gollark: Pretty much everything we actually produce is in the "not entirely necessary but nice to have" box.
gollark: There is lots of stuff which nobody really *needs* - you can live without it, society could work without it (if we had set stuff up that way) - but it's not very nice to not have it. Like computers, or modern medicine, or non-bare-minimum food and housing.
References
- Michigan (1989). Michigan manual. 1987/1988 – via HathiTrust.
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