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Michigan House District 041
This district covers part of Oakland County and is easily defined by exactly the two cities it covers in their entirety - the City of Troy and City of Clawson.
It is currently represented by Marty Knollenberg, who would be term-limited from office at the end of 2012. The district is considered to be solid to leaning Republican, with Troy being roughly 80 percent of the voting base and Clawson the remainder. Clawson's demographics are almost 50-50 along partisan lines making it an Oakland County bell-weather, while Troy is a 65 percent Republican area.
2010 Campaign
- Declared Republican candidate.
- Marty Knollenberg, incumbent. Campaign finance reports at SOS. Campaign website.
- Declared Democrat candidate.
- Ed Spillers, Oakland Democratic Party committee member, filed April 23, 2009. Campaign finance reports at SOS. Campaign website.
It is likely this will be the contest for the general election.
2008 Campaign
Rep. Knollenberg ran unopposed in the Republican primary and defeated 23-year old substitute teacher Evan Ross Treharne, 58% - 42%.
2006 Campaign
Knollenberg defeated Clawson School Board member Mike Bosnic 53.5% to 46.5% in a closely followed primary, which was a rematch of a 2004 primary where Knollenberg came in 2nd and 100 votes ahead of Bosnic who finished third when Robert Gosselin won his third and final term. Gosselin was running for an open seat after he had left office in 2002 in failed bid for State Senate.
2004 Campaign
Former Representative Robert Gosselin (1999-2003, 42nd District under previous census and slightly different boundaries) sought and won a final term to replace term-limited John Pappageorge (1999-2005, 41st District). The two-year gap in Gosselin's political career resulted from a 2002 primary run for State Senate, which he lost. Gosselin defeated then-County-Commissioner Marty Knollenberg and Mike Bosnic in a highly contentious three-way primary, and handily won his general election by a wide margin.
2002 Campaign
The first term following the decennial census-based redistricting required by law, the district was won by the incumbent from the previous 21st District, John Pappageorge which encompassed an area similar to the current 41st District.
Prior to 2002
The district prior to the redistricting of 2001 was all of Clawson, southern Troy, and northern parts of Royal Oak, as contrasted to its current state of all of Troy and all of Clawson. John Pappageorge assumed the seat beginning in 1998, after Michigan first wave of term-limit retirements occurred.
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