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2026 candidates we're tracking in MI-1
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Callie Barr
Democratic
Callie Barr is an attorney and veterans advocate raised in Traverse City and Cheboygan who became her husband's caretaker and advocate after his Marine Corps combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, per her campaign site. She was the 2024 Democratic nominee in th…
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Kyle Blomquist
Democratic
Kyle Blomquist is an architect who co-owns his family's Iron Mountain architecture firm and serves as mayor pro tem on the Iron Mountain City Council after more than a decade on that body, per his campaign site and Michigan Advance. Raised in the Upper Peninsu…
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Wayne Stiles
Democratic
Wayne Stiles is an industrial designer and small business owner in Traverse City, per his campaign site and Michigan Advance. He pitches an engineering-style, problem-solving approach over ideology, per Interlochen Public Radio. He appears on the certified Aug…
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Jack Bergman
Republican
Incumbent
Jack Bergman is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant general and former commercial airline pilot, first elected to this seat in 2016, per Michigan Advance. He is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and appears on the certified August 4 listing,…
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Matthew DenOtter
Republican
Matthew DenOtter is a health care executive from Boyne City who spent 22 years as a pharmaceutical representative and founded CWC Medical Management, a healthcare management company, per his campaign site. He says fixing rural health care access in northern Mi…
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Justin Michal
Republican
Justin Michal is a U.S. Army combat veteran from Grayling and a Ph.D. candidate in conflict resolution, per his campaign site; Michigan Advance lists his career experience as an entrepreneur. He appears on the certified August 4 listing, per the Michigan Burea…
About this race
Michigan's 1st Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Michigan primary is Tuesday, August 4, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.