State House Redistricting - District 66 (HD-66)

State House - District 66
Current Rep - Aric Nesbitt (R-Antwerp Twp)

Candidates:
GOP - Aric Nesbitt (R-Antwerp Twp)
Dems - Richard Rajkovich (D-Mattawan)


Old District (80th)
Aric Nesbitt - 15,492
Thomas Erdmann - 7,850


The old 66th Bill Rogers district where I live is now mostly the 42nd District. Most of the new 66th district is the old 80th district with a few minor changes. The old and new district covers all of Van Buren County. The old district had parts of Allegan County (Otsego/Plainwell). The new district takes in Cooper and Alamo Townships in Kalamazoo County instead. That doesn't change much partisan wise. On paper, this is a swing district. On paper being the key as the GOP has held this for a long time, even in bad years. Covert and South Haven make this seat potentially difficult in any year. None of Van Buren County is that strongly Republican, unlike most of SW Michigan. A lot of the area is slightly leaning, but there are only two areas that went 60% for Bush. Covert Township is the big base for the democrats by percentage due to minorities, but there aren't many people there.

	McCain	Obama	Total	Diff	GOP	DEM	Diff
Van Buren County	15534	18588	34122	-3054	45.52%	54.48%	-8.95%
Kalamazoo County:			0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
Alamo Twp	1198	1049	2247	149	53.32%	46.68%	6.63%
Cooper Twp	2635	2873	5508	-238	47.84%	52.16%	-4.32%
Total	19367	22510	41877	-3143	46.25%	53.75%	-7.51%
	Bush	Kerry	Total	Diff	GOP	DEM	Diff
Van Buren County	17634	16151	33785	1483	52.19%	47.81%	4.39%
Kalamazoo County:			0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
Alamo Twp	1288	918	2206	370	58.39%	41.61%	16.77%
Cooper Twp	2825	2462	5287	363	53.43%	46.57%	6.87%
Total	21747	19531	41278	2216	52.68%	47.32%	5.37%
Last St House	GOP	Dem	Total	Diff	GOP	DEM	Diff
Van Buren County	13508	6805	20313	6703	66.50%	33.50%	33.00%
Kalamazoo County:			0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
Alamo Twp			0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
Cooper Twp			0	0	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!	#DIV/0!
Total	13508	6805	20313	6703	66.50%	33.50%	33.00%