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Kevin Hogan
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Democratic Party

Candidate, Governor of Michigan

Elections and appointments
Next election

November 3, 2026

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Birthplace
Detroit, Mich.
Profession
Research scientist
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Kevin Hogan (Democratic Party) is running for election for Governor of Michigan. He declared candidacy for the 2026 election.

Hogan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Kevin Hogan's career experience includes working as a research scientist. Hogan has been affiliated with the Green Party of Michigan.[1] He earned a degree from the University of Michigan.[2]

Elections

2026

See also: Michigan gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2026

Note: At this time, Ballotpedia is combining all declared candidates for this election into one list under a general election heading. As primary election dates are published, this information will be updated to separate general election candidates from primary candidates as appropriate.

General election

The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.

General election for Governor of Michigan

The following candidates are running in the general election for Governor of Michigan on November 3, 2026.

Candidate
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Jocelyn Benson (D)
Image of Garlin Gilchrist II
Garlin Gilchrist II (D)
Image of Kevin Hogan
Kevin Hogan (D) Candidate Connection
Image of Marni Sawicki
Marni Sawicki (D) Candidate Connection
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Chris Swanson (D)
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Mike Cox (R)
Image of Joyce Gipson
Joyce Gipson (R) Candidate Connection
Image of Anthony Hudson
Anthony Hudson (R)
Image of John James
John James (R)
Image of Tom Leonard
Tom Leonard (R)
Image of Aric Nesbitt
Aric Nesbitt (R)
Image of Ralph Rebandt
Ralph Rebandt (R)
Image of Evan Space
Evan Space (R) Candidate Connection
Image of Karla Wagner
Karla Wagner (R)
Image of Mike Duggan
Mike Duggan (Independent)

There are no incumbents in this race.

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2022

See also: Michigan gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022

General election

General election for Governor of Michigan

The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Michigan on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Gretchen Whitmer
Gretchen Whitmer (D)
 
54.5
 
2,430,505
Image of Tudor Dixon
Tudor Dixon (R)
 
43.9
 
1,960,635
Image of Mary Buzuma
Mary Buzuma (L) Candidate Connection
 
0.9
 
38,800
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Donna Brandenburg (U.S. Taxpayers Party)
 
0.4
 
16,246
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Kevin Hogan (G) Candidate Connection
 
0.2
 
10,766
Image of Daryl Simpson
Daryl Simpson (Natural Law Party) Candidate Connection
 
0.1
 
4,973
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Evan Space (Independent) (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
26
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.0
 
21

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 4,461,972
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Governor of Michigan

Incumbent Gretchen Whitmer advanced from the Democratic primary for Governor of Michigan on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Gretchen Whitmer
Gretchen Whitmer
 
100.0
 
938,382

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 938,382
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for Governor of Michigan

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Michigan on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Tudor Dixon
Tudor Dixon
 
39.7
 
436,350
Image of Kevin Rinke
Kevin Rinke
 
21.5
 
236,306
Image of Garrett Soldano
Garrett Soldano
 
17.5
 
192,442
Image of Ryan Kelley
Ryan Kelley
 
15.1
 
165,587
Image of Ralph Rebandt
Ralph Rebandt Candidate Connection
 
4.1
 
45,046
Image of James Craig
James Craig (Write-in)
 
2.1
 
23,521
Image of Elizabeth Adkisson
Elizabeth Adkisson (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
11
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Justin Blackburn (Write-in)
 
0.0
 
10

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 1,099,273
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Green convention

Green convention for Governor of Michigan

Kevin Hogan advanced from the Green convention for Governor of Michigan on April 23, 2022.

Candidate
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Kevin Hogan (G) Candidate Connection

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

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Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for Governor of Michigan

Mary Buzuma advanced from the Libertarian convention for Governor of Michigan on July 10, 2022.

Candidate
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Mary Buzuma (L) Candidate Connection

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

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U.S. Taxpayers Party convention

U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Governor of Michigan

Donna Brandenburg advanced from the U.S. Taxpayers Party convention for Governor of Michigan on July 23, 2022.

Candidate
✔
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Donna Brandenburg (U.S. Taxpayers Party)

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

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Campaign themes

2026

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Kevin Hogan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hogan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I'm a retired research biochemist and substitute teacher for Detroit Public Schools Community District. I was born in Detroit Michigan. I'm a proud son of a Matriarch. I've played and went to school in Detroit, Dearborn Heights, and Dearborn. In college I strung tennis racquets for pocket money, paid for college via work but mainly student loans. After graduation from the University of Michigan - Dearborn. I went on to worked in University of Michigan - Ann Arbor research laboratories and at Wayne State University in one of its research laboratories. My biochemistry experiments have been published in five research papers in human eye disease, aging, and immunology.
  • Tax Cuts. My platform is based in the economy. As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan, I will sign into law tax cuts for seniors, minimum wage earners, and small businesses. I'll sign into law the end of property taxes on fixed income ($35K/year or less) seniors at 70 years of age and give back property taxes on those seniors over 70 years of age starting from the oldest. I'll sign into law cut taxes on minimum wage earners down to as low as no income taxes - they have to be able to meet their basic needs! I will sign into law tax cuts for small businesses. I'd rather have increase small business employment - get taxes from employees - than income taxes from struggling small businesses.
  • Social Justice. I will hire an attorney general - separate from Dana Nessel's Office - that works with me as Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan. I will be looking at injustices in law and law enforcement, in the courtroom, in cold cases, missing persons - "No More Stolen Sister" - recently reporter Erica Erickson reporting on missing persons failed to include missing indigenous girls and ladies - as an indigenous man and biochemist I'm uniquely qualified to understand & help find missing persons.
  • Humanity. 1. Immigration. As an indigenous man I am uniquely qualified to decide who enters the land of my people. 2. Food and Water are basic human rights. I will work with good organizations like Gleaners, Forgotten Harvest, supermarkets, farmers, etcetera to establish a statewide program to provide one free meal (5 food groups) to qualifying persons.
Immigration, (Palestine Statehood, Ukraine Democracy, World Peace), Housing & Basic Human Rights, Free Health Care (Mental Health), Discrimination: Women & LGBTQI Equality, Environmental Issues - clean air, land, and water.
Good working relationships are very important for elected officials. Therefore, the elected official must have good communication skills like listening and hearing what another person is saying. The elected official will need to be respectful and considerate.
The elected official has the core responsibilities to uphold the Constitution and to honor promises.
I want my legacy to be consideration.
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his assassination! John-John's age.
I worked at a plant nursery for some two years during my senior year in high school and my first year after graduating high school.
The one I'm writing as a biochemist: "Weight Loss and Maintenance Diet by biochemist Kevin Hogan Golden Eagle"
Being hated my entire life on the land of my people!
I, Kevin Hogan, consider my most important personal responsibility to be protection of people's liberty.
The appropriate degree of Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan involvement with the state budgeting process would be to get it on the ballot so the people, the taxpayers, the voters, can cast their vote as to the allocation of their taxpayer dollars. It's called a democracy.
As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan how I would use line-item veto is as a negotiating strategy and when I would use line-item veto would be, for example, to veto pork barreling. Pork barreling doesn't serve the people but a legislator trying to get reelected.
The ideal relationship between me as Governor of Michigan Kevin Hogan and the state legislature is having a good respectful cooperative working relationship; to come to compromise - half & half bargaining to move forward with the people's business.
Air, Land, and Water. I love the different cultural restaurants - Mexican cuisine, Ethiopian cuisine, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, German, American cuisines, etcetera and their associate cultures. As a scientist I love (Green) industry. I love science and its technology. I can't wait to be invited to tours inside industry latest research and development.
The economy. The state's greatest challenges are to continue research and development of new technologies such that different industries may crop up and grow keeping people working and living the so-called American Dream.
When there is an emergency!
I support the current state ballot initiative process. I would, however, make it easier by getting rid of petitions. Instead, I would have the issues in the news put on the ballot for example the state budget and consequentially I would reduce the state legislature to part-time.
I'm in charge and responsible for everything!
"No More Stolen Sisters". As a biochemist ("DNA expert") I'm sure I could make a difference in missing person stories including MIA stories.
My work as a biochemist. And, as a substitute teacher helping a little Mexican boy with separation anxiety.
Michigan government's role in development and or use of artificial intelligence is leadership. As a scientist I wholly embrace AI. As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan, I will use AI to bring down costs for example in health care developing new and innovative diagnostic assays - used in biochemistry.
As Michigan Governor Kevin Hogan, I would sign into law legislation related to election administration in Michigan that gets rid of discriminatory roadblocks like gathering registered voter's signatures on petitions because it forces candidates to take money from political action committees, PACs, so as to be able to pay some company to gather some 30,000 registered voter's signatures on petitions to get their names on the ballot!

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2022

Candidate Connection

Kevin Hogan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hogan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I'm Kevin Hogan, a proud product (son) of a matriarch as such I strongly support women's equality. And I strongly support the LGBTQI (+) Community's equality! As a Biochemist, I worked at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Wayne State University in Detroit: two of my publications are in the field of Immunology so between school and work I have knowledge and experience with viruses and vaccines. My knowledge and experience with viruses and vaccines is vital to ending The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic and NOT allowing it to become an endemic like the flu.
  • I believe in freedom with responsibility, our bodies our decisions with free health care.
  • I strongly believe in Women's Equality and the LGBTQI(+)'s Equality; I'm against bigotry and, in general, wrongful discrimination.
  • I believe in a Free Education System. A more education population will have less violence, less crime.
01. Institutionalized bigotry. It is a government of the people, by the people but not for all the people.

02. Democracy. We do not have a democracy. We have or they have us in a republic.
03. Education. It is public policy that administrator wrongly establish curriculum.
04. Environment. It is public policy to procrastinate taking corrective measures beyond simply reducing carbon emissions regarding global warming.
05. Animal Rights. It is public policy to treat other animals as less than; not deserving rights!
06. Disabilities and Veterans. It is public policy to ignore people with disabilities including veterans.
07. Economy. In her commercial Gretchen Whitmer tells us that she CANNOT do anything about inflation. Yes, there are things that an executive can do!
08. Transparency. It is public policy to hide information from the public.
09.Taxes. It is public policy to have loopholes in tax laws.

10. The above areas are not listed in their importance to me, THEY ALL MATTER TO ME GREATLY!
Honesty. Hard Working. Accomplishment. Transparency. Compassion.
I'm honest, hardworking, and compassionate.
I made sweeping changes for the betterment of all of us.
Institutionalize bigotry, bigotry. The hate and intentional destruction of my people's way of life on our own land by a hypocritical government and hypocritical people. I told you I was honest.
It means that I'm responsible. I'm responsible for ending The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic and preventing it from becoming an endemic. I'm responsible for my subordinates. I'm responsible for revitalizing the economy; for inflation. I'm responsible for improving our standard of living. I'm responsible for Flint's clean water. I'm responsible for Flooding of the River Rouge River; the Ecorse Creek; the highways. I'm responsible for the elderly that have no heat in the winter in their residencies. I'm responsible for the homeless that freeze to death every winter. I'm responsible for ...!
See above..."most important", hmm: life threatening, immediate harm. So, from above, I would go with ending The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic and heating residencies, homelessness, feeding the financially poor and providing clean water and food. After all, clean water is a basic human right - a long time belief of the Green Party! Kevin Hogan, The Next Michigan Governor - Green Party!
In Michigan, the governor puts out his or her own budget plan. I think this is appropriate... .
Well, since I would be responsible for everything. It seems fair for me as Kevin Hogan, The Next Michigan Governor - Green Party to make the final changes (line-item vetoes) after final negotiations with the state legislature giving them a chance to hear what I would veto. Transparency.
Yes. Because the Governor is responsible for the final results or lack of results. Gretchen Whitmer is responsible for the 38,000 (according to Johns Hopkins) Michiganians that have died from The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic. (And, I still want to know how many Michiganian children have died from The Gretchen Whitmer COVID19 Pandemic especially since Gretchen Whitmer opened the classrooms to children.)
A third political party Governor to listen fairly to the Republicans and Democrats. I am Kevin Hogan, The Next Michigan Governor - Green Party (a 3rd Party Tie Breaker).
The land, air, and water: Pure Michigan.
Institutionalize bigotry and Infrastructure. Infrastructure is worsening every day. Michigan is behind the 8 ball in that after the recent insufficient federal influx of money is gone, Michigan will go back to insufficient funding per year to fix the failed Gretchen Whitmer damn roads, bridges, dams, etc.
Depends, as a published biochemist I would have been qualified to use emergency power relative to COVID19. But clearly Gretchen Whitmer was way, way, way out of her league and should have let the decisions relative to COVID19 be made by the Department of Health. Gretchen Whitmer's ego would not let her share decision making with the Department of Health.

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Kevin Hogan campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2022Governor of MichiganLost general$0 $0
Grand total$0 $0
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    2. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 30, 2025
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