Supervisor and treasurer recall, Gaines, Michigan (2025)
| Gaines Township supervisor and treasurer recall |
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| Officeholders |
Robert Henderson |
| Recall status |
| Signature requirement |
| See also |
| Recall overview Political recall efforts, 2025 Recalls in Michigan Michigan recall laws City council recalls City official recalls Recall reports |
An effort to recall Supervisor Dan Jenkins and Treasurer Robert Henderson is underway in Gaines, Michigan.
Recall supporters
Recall organizers submitted the following as grounds for recalling Jenkins and Henderson. For both officials, the Genesee County Election Commission approved the first petition for circulation but denied the second and third petitions.[1]
- "Fired fire chief and office secretary"
- "Costing the township residents $20,000 in interest fees by not following the auditors advice on how to pay for the new fire truck."
- "Misusing township funds by delaying purchase of fire truck until cost substantially increased."
Path to the ballot
- See also: Laws governing recall in Michigan
No specific grounds are required for recall in Michigan. To get a recall on the ballot in Michigan, recall supporters must collect signatures equal in number to 25% of voters in the jurisdiction in the last gubernatorial election. They have 60 days between the collection of the first signature and the collection of the last signature on the petition. Recall petitions are eligible to collect signatures for 180 days.[2][3][4]
Recall petitions against Jenkins and Henderson were submitted on October 30, 2025. The Genesee County Election Commission held a clarity hearing on November 17, 2025.[1]
Recall context
- See also: Ballotpedia's Recall Report
Ballotpedia covers recall efforts across the country for all state and local elected offices. A recall effort is considered official if the petitioning party has filed an official form, such as a notice of intent to recall, with the relevant election agency.
The chart below shows how many officials were included in recall efforts from 2012 to 2024 as well as how many of them defeated recall elections to stay in office and how many were removed from office in recall elections.
See also
- Ballotpedia's Recall Report
- Gaines, Michigan
- Recall campaigns in Michigan
- Political recall efforts, 2025
- Mayoral recalls
- City official recalls
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Genesee County Election Division, "Recalls," accessed November 18, 2025
- ↑ Michigan Election Law, "Act 116 of 1954: 168.955 Recall petition; number of signatures; certification." accessed October 13, 2023
- ↑ 'Michigan Election Law, "Act 116 of 1954: 168.961 Recall petition; filing; receipt; duties of filing official; duties of city or township clerk; certificate; duties of village clerk; use of qualified voter file." accessed October 13, 2023
- ↑ Michigan Election Officials' Manual, "Chapter 18 Recall Process," August 2017
