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Kelly Sackett
Kelly Sackett (Republican Party) ran for election to the Michigan House of Representatives to represent District 40. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Elections
2024
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 40
Matt Longjohn defeated Kelly Sackett in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 40 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Matt Longjohn (D)  | 57.4 | 30,707 |
 | Kelly Sackett (R) | 42.6 | 22,746 | |
| Total votes: 53,453 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40
Matt Longjohn defeated Lisa Brayton in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matt Longjohn | 70.4 | 7,815 |
 | Lisa Brayton | 29.6 | 3,286 | |
| Total votes: 11,101 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Abigail Wheeler (D)
- Christine Morse (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40
Kelly Sackett advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kelly Sackett | 100.0 | 5,909 |
| Total votes: 5,909 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
2022
See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 40
Incumbent Christine Morse defeated Kelly Sackett in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 40 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Christine Morse (D) | 58.6 | 25,989 |
| Kelly Sackett (R) | 41.4 | 18,338 | |
| Total votes: 44,327 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40
Incumbent Christine Morse advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christine Morse | 100.0 | 9,767 |
| Total votes: 9,767 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40
Kelly Sackett advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 40 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Kelly Sackett | 100.0 | 8,177 |
| Total votes: 8,177 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kelly Sackett did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Kelly Sackett completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sackett's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Restore parental rights in education and empower parental involvement. If COVID taught us anything, it was that we needed to be more cognizant of what our children were actually learning in school. Parental involvement is key to ensuring that our children are receiving the quality education that they deserve. Our children are our future and it’s time that we start to invest in them.
- Keep neighborhoods safe and safer and cleaner communities. Kalamazoo was recently named in the top 10 of Michigan’s most violent cities and was also one of the top 20 most violent cities in the nation. The city of Kalamazoo also just made several changes to their city code including decriminalizing public urination or defecation and littering. We need to be funding the police, not defunding. Federal, state and local politicians have hampered law enforcement's ability to perform their duties of keeping communities safe. We have seen bills that decrease sentences and also do away with cash bonds and many of those things effect the rise in crime.
- Strengthen small business threw less red tape lower taxes. We should have an atmosphere for job creation, economic growth and higher wages for employees across Kalamazoo County.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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