MI-07 Michigan's 7th District

Candidate

Predicted Vote %

Predicted Win %

Tim Walberg

53.0%

69.1%

Gretchen Driskell

47.0%

30.9%

BPI

Blair Partisan Index

Measures how strongly a district leans toward the Democratic or Republican Party compared to the nation as a whole.

 

-4.1%

SEER Prediction

SEER Prediction

Forecasted Democratic % of vote, without considering national mood or polling.

 

41.5%

District Profile Last Updated: Oct. 5, 2018, 11:47 a.m.

Michigan’s seventh congressional district is located in the southeast corner of Michigan. The district is almost 90% White and has voted Republican, save for 2008 when they voted for Obama and Mark Schauer. Tim Walberg has won the 2012, 2014, and 2016 elections with 53%, 54%, and 55% of the vote respectively. The candidates running in this election are Walberg (R) and Gretchen Driskell (D). Walberg has been representing MI-07 since 2010 and was previously a minister. Up until 2017, Driskell represented MI-52. Our fundamental-only model predicts a Republican win.

District Updates and Posts

MI-07 Polls in Our Model

PoliStat | Oct. 11, 2018, 11:13 p.m.

Feb. 19-21 DCCC Targeting Team 400 rv Driskell - 37% Walberg - 41%