Wes Peterson

Wes Peterson

Working Class Party

Candidate, Michigan State Senate District 28

Elections and appointments

Last convention

June 6, 2026

Next election

November 3, 2026

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Wes Peterson (Working Class Party) is running for election to the Michigan State Senate to represent District 28. Peterson is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. Peterson advanced from the Working Class Party convention on June 6, 2026.

Peterson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2026

See also: Michigan State Senate elections, 2026

General election

The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.

General election for Michigan State Senate District 28

Rashida Harrison (D), Julie DeRose (R), Brandon Crabill (L), and Wes Peterson (Working Class Party) are running in the general election for Michigan State Senate District 28 on November 3, 2026.

		Candidate
		Rashida Harrison  (D)
		Julie DeRose  (R)
	Submit photo	Brandon Crabill (L)
	Submit photo	Wes Peterson  (Working Class Party)

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Democratic primary

Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 28

Rashida Harrison (D) defeated Mark Polsdofer (D), Robert Pena (D), and Ted Kilvington (D) in the Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 28 on August 4, 2026.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Rashida Harrison	41.8	17,715
		Mark Polsdofer	37.9	16,070
	Submit photo	Robert Pena	11.7	4,969
	Submit photo	Ted Kilvington	8.7	3,670

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	There were no incumbents in this race. Vote totals may change until results are certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 42,424
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Republican primary

Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 28

Julie DeRose (R) advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 28 on August 4, 2026.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Julie DeRose	100.0	19,284

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Libertarian Party convention

Libertarian Party convention for Michigan State Senate District 28

Brandon Crabill (L) advanced from the Libertarian Party convention for Michigan State Senate District 28 on June 28, 2026.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Brandon Crabill

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Working Class Party convention

Working Class Party convention for Michigan State Senate District 28

Wes Peterson (Working Class Party) advanced from the Working Class Party convention for Michigan State Senate District 28 on June 6, 2026.

		Candidate
✔	Submit photo	Wes Peterson

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Campaign themes

2026

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Wes Peterson completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Peterson's responses.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I'm Wes Peterson, a software engineer in East Lansing, and I am running because I want to offer real solutions to the problems we face as workers. Problems that don't get solved because the donors and leaders in the two-party system benefit from leaving them unaddressed.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Making life affordable means changing who profits from our basic needs. I support public utilities, housing cooperatives, and publicly built housing because they let us put affordability first. We should fund health care and child care directly instead of paying middlemen to decide what we can have. A full-time job should pay enough to live on, and people should have something left after the bills are paid.
• Working people need power at work and in government. I will fight to protect the right to organize, hold employers accountable for stealing wages, and help workers buy their workplaces when they come up for sale. I also support ranked choice voting and proportional representation so more political viewpoints can win representation. I am running with the Working Class Party because we need a party willing to challenge the people who benefit from keeping things as they are.
• Technology should give us more freedom and more time to live our lives, instead it is used to monitor and extract everything from us. This is because the rich and corporations control technology to serve their interests of amassing wealth and power. I want workers to share in the benefits of automation through shorter hours and better pay, and communities to have control over the technology being brought into their lives. We should get to decide how technology is used instead of having those decisions made for us by the bosses or surveillance companies that profit from it.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Technology policy is especially personal to me because I write software for a living. I know that people decide how technology is used, and right now its being used to spy on us, steal our data, and eventually take our wages. Those decisions are made to maximize profit, in spite of what is best for society, and politicians are lobbied to go along with it. I want to protect our say in how technology is used in our workplaces and communities, our privacy, and our right to own and repair what we buy

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Footnotes

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Current members of the Michigan State Senate

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District 1

Erika Geiss (D)

District 2

Sylvia Santana (D)

District 3

Stephanie Chang (D)

District 4

Darrin Camilleri (D)

District 5

Dayna Polehanki (D)

District 6

Mary Cavanagh (D)

District 7

Jeremy Moss (D)

District 8

Mallory McMorrow (D)

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Michael Webber (R)

District 10

Paul Wojno (D)

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Veronica Klinefelt (D)

District 12

Kevin Hertel (D)

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Rosemary Bayer (D)

District 14

Sue Shink (D)

District 15

Jeff Irwin (D)

District 16

Joseph Bellino (R)

District 17

Jonathan Lindsey (R)

District 18

Thomas Albert (R)

District 19

Sean McCann (D)

District 20

Aric Nesbitt (R)

District 21

Sarah Anthony (D)

District 22

Lana Theis (R)

District 23

Jim Runestad (R)

District 24

Ruth Johnson (R)

District 25

Dan Lauwers (R)

District 26

Kevin Daley (R)

District 27

John Cherry (D)

District 28

Sam Singh (D)

District 29

Winnie Brinks (D)

District 30

Mark Huizenga (R)

District 31

Roger Victory (R)

District 32

Jon Bumstead (R)

District 33

Rick Outman (R)

District 34

Roger Hauck (R)

District 35

Chedrick Greene (D)

District 36

Michele Hoitenga (R)

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