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Linda Sawyer
Linda Sawyer (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Michigan's 12th Congressional District. She lost in the Republican primary on August 6, 2024.
Sawyer was an elected delegate to the 2020 Republican National Convention.[1]
Biography
Linda Sawyer attended Northern Michigan University. Her career experience includes working as a registered nurse. Sawyer's organizational affiliations include the Michigan Nurses Association, the American Nurses Association, and the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council. She is a committee member of the Wayne County Republican Party.[2]
Elections
2024
See also: Michigan's 12th Congressional District election, 2024
Michigan's 12th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 Republican primary)
Michigan's 12th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Incumbent Rashida Tlaib defeated James Hooper, Gary Walkowicz, and Brenda Sanders in the general election for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Rashida Tlaib (D) | 69.7 | 253,354 | |
![]() | James Hooper (R) | 25.4 | 92,490 | |
![]() | Gary Walkowicz (Working Class Party) | 2.6 | 9,401 | |
![]() | Brenda Sanders (G) | 2.3 | 8,254 |
Total votes: 363,499 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Incumbent Rashida Tlaib advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Rashida Tlaib | 99.9 | 84,138 | |
Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 108 |
Total votes: 84,246 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Royce Kinniebrew (D)
- Ryan Foster (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12
James Hooper defeated Linda Sawyer in the Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | James Hooper | 60.5 | 12,001 |
![]() | Linda Sawyer | 39.5 | 7,828 |
Total votes: 19,829 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Hassan Nehme (R)
- Steven Elliott (R)
Green convention
Green convention for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Brenda Sanders advanced from the Green convention for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on July 27, 2024.
Candidate | ||
✔ | ![]() | Brenda Sanders (G) |
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Working Class Party convention
Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Gary Walkowicz advanced from the Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on June 23, 2024.
Candidate | ||
✔ | ![]() | Gary Walkowicz (Working Class Party) |
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2022
See also: Michigan's 12th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Incumbent Rashida Tlaib defeated Steven Elliott and Gary Walkowicz in the general election for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Rashida Tlaib (D) | 70.8 | 196,643 | |
![]() | Steven Elliott (R) ![]() | 26.3 | 72,888 | |
![]() | Gary Walkowicz (Working Class Party) | 2.9 | 8,046 |
Total votes: 277,577 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Incumbent Rashida Tlaib defeated Janice Winfrey, Kelly Garrett, and Shanelle Jackson in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Rashida Tlaib | 63.8 | 61,635 | |
![]() | Janice Winfrey | 22.4 | 21,636 | |
![]() | Kelly Garrett ![]() | 8.6 | 8,334 | |
![]() | Shanelle Jackson | 5.1 | 4,927 |
Total votes: 96,532 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Phil Cavanagh (D)
- Michelle Wooddell (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Steven Elliott defeated James Hooper and Hassan Nehme in the Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Steven Elliott ![]() | 52.9 | 14,431 |
![]() | James Hooper ![]() | 35.4 | 9,651 | |
![]() | Hassan Nehme ![]() | 11.7 | 3,196 |
Total votes: 27,278 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Linda Sawyer (R)
Working Class Party convention
Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 12
Gary Walkowicz advanced from the Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 12 on June 26, 2022.
Candidate | ||
✔ | ![]() | Gary Walkowicz (Working Class Party) |
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2020
See also: Michigan's 13th Congressional District election, 2020
Michigan's 13th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 4 Republican primary)
Michigan's 13th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 4 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Michigan District 13
The following candidates ran in the general election for U.S. House Michigan District 13 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Rashida Tlaib (D) ![]() | 78.1 | 223,205 | |
David Dudenhoefer (R) ![]() | 18.6 | 53,311 | ||
![]() | Sam Johnson (Working Class Party) | 1.8 | 5,284 | |
D. Etta Wilcoxon (G) ![]() | 0.7 | 2,105 | ||
![]() | Articia Bomer (U.S. Taxpayers Party of Michigan) | 0.7 | 1,974 | |
![]() | Donald Eason (Independent) (Write-in) | 0.0 | 6 |
Total votes: 285,885 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 13
Incumbent Rashida Tlaib defeated Brenda Jones in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 13 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Rashida Tlaib ![]() | 66.3 | 71,670 | |
![]() | Brenda Jones ![]() | 33.7 | 36,492 |
Total votes: 108,162 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 13
David Dudenhoefer defeated Linda Sawyer and Alfred Lemmo in the Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 13 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | David Dudenhoefer ![]() | 47.6 | 6,833 | |
![]() | Linda Sawyer | 34.5 | 4,955 | |
![]() | Alfred Lemmo ![]() | 17.9 | 2,574 |
Total votes: 14,362 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Articia Bomer (R)
Green convention
Green convention for U.S. House Michigan District 13
D. Etta Wilcoxon advanced from the Green convention for U.S. House Michigan District 13 on June 20, 2020.
Candidate | ||
✔ | D. Etta Wilcoxon (G) ![]() |
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Working Class Party convention
Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 13
Sam Johnson advanced from the Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 13 on July 26, 2020.
Candidate | ||
✔ | ![]() | Sam Johnson (Working Class Party) |
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2018
General election
Tyrone Carter defeated Linda Sawyer in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 6 on November 6, 2018.
General election
General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 6
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Tyrone Carter (D) | 91.1 | 21,005 | |
![]() | Linda Sawyer (R) | 8.9 | 2,056 |
Total votes: 23,061 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 6 on August 7, 2018.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 6
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | Tyrone Carter | 21.1 | 2,398 | |
Charlesetta Wilson | 18.8 | 2,132 | ||
Terra DeFoe | 13.2 | 1,492 | ||
![]() | Aghogho Edevbie | 11.0 | 1,247 | |
![]() | Willie Burton | 8.6 | 976 | |
Ricardo White | 6.9 | 780 | ||
![]() | David Sanchez | 6.1 | 696 | |
Paula Humphries | 4.9 | 552 | ||
Samantha Magdaleno | 4.8 | 541 | ||
Tom Choske | 4.7 | 532 |
Total votes: 11,346 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Linda Sawyer advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 6 on August 7, 2018.
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 6
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
✔ | ![]() | Linda Sawyer | 100.0 | 456 |
Total votes: 456 | ||||
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Campaign themes
2024
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Campaign website
Sawyer’s campaign website stated the following:
“ |
Affordable Health Care |
” |
—Linda Sawyer’s campaign website (2024)[4] |
2022
Linda Sawyer did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Linda Sawyer did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
Ballotpedia biographical submission form
The candidate completed Ballotpedia's biographical information submission form:
“ | What is your political philosophy?
To bring health care to Lansing.To my knowledge, we have no health care professionals currently serving in our legislature. Is there anything you would like to add? A Registered Nurse with the University of Michigan for 28 yrs with critical care and research background. From a police and fire family. Born in Detroit Michigan. 5th generation German Lutheran immigrants that lived on Springwells in the district. Adopted children from a Russian orphanage twice so immigration experience. Father was a State Farm agent for over 50 years and used to help in the office so have an understanding of auto insurance. Sister has intellectual and developmental disabilities so an advocate for the disabled. Have union negotiation experience for over 6000 staff. Volunteered for a non-profit children's organization for over 30 years.[3] |
” |
—Linda Sawyer[2] |
Campaign finance summary
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Footnotes
- ↑ MI GOP, "Delegates and alternates elected to the Republican National Convention," accessed June 30, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on August 15, 2018
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Linda Sawyer’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed July 24, 2024