ESCANABA — As per Tuesday night’s results, the elected official representing Michigan’s 108th District in the Michigan House of Representatives is Republican David Prestin, who has held the seat since January of 2023 after first elected to office in November 2022. The new term will begin on January 1.

Prestin, who comes from Cedar River, has policies many identify with. They include include the constitutional right for law-abiding citizens to carry guns, and he supports pro-life legislation. He has said he aims to protect the rights and freedoms of small business owners and farmers. He’s against excessive gov

ernment regulation, but looks to solve the staffing issues that face the areas of law enforcement, corrections, and first response.

The State of Michigan, like the U.S. Congress and 48 other states in the nation — all except Nebraska — has a bicameral (two-chambered) legislature. T

he upper chamber is the Senate, and it has 38 members who serve four-year terms. The lower chamber is the House of Representatives, which has one member for each of 110 regions — districts — serving two-year terms.

Legislative districts are drawn based on population figures from census data, so while the Lower Peninsula is made up of over 100 districts, the Upper Peninsula includes just three-and-a-half. The 108th District encompasses about a third of the area of the U.P.; its representative speaks for residents of the entirety of Delta, Luce, Menominee, and Schoolcraft counties, plus parts of Chippewa and Menominee Counties.

Across the entire 108th district, Prestin received 31,786 votes (66.24%), Democratic candidate Christiana Reynolds secured 15,154 (31.58%), and Libertarian Kayla Wikstrom received 1,048 votes (2.18%). Numbers were similar in Delta County: Prestin had 64.31% of the votes from the 20,911 Delta residents who cast ballots in the race, Reynolds had 33.41%, and Wikstrom had 2.08%.