Tim Kelly

Republican Party

Michigan House of Representatives District 93

Tenure

2025 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

1

Predecessor:Graham Filler (R)

Prior offices:

Michigan House of Representatives District 94

Years in office: 2013 - 2019

Successor:Rodney Wakeman (R)

Compensation

Base salary

$71,685/year

Per diem

No per diem is paid.

Elections and appointments

Last election

November 5, 2024

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Tim Kelly (Republican Party) is a member of theMichigan House of Representatives, representingDistrict 93. He assumed office on January 1, 2025. His current term ends on January 1, 2027.

Kelly (Republican Party) ran for election to theMichigan House of Representatives to representDistrict 93. He won in the general election onNovember 5, 2024.

Committee assignments

2025-2026

Kelly was assigned to the following committees:

• House Appropriations Committee

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Kelly served on the following committees:

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Kelly served on the following committees:

Sponsored legislation

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Elections

2024

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Michigan House of Representatives District 93

Tim Kelly defeatedKevin Seamon in the general election for Michigan House of Representatives District 93 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Kelly (R)	69.0	33,943
	Submit photo	Kevin Seamon (D)	31.0	15,272

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	There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 49,215
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 93

Kevin Seamon advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 93 on August 6, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Submit photo	Kevin Seamon	100.0	5,808

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	There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 5,808
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 93

Tim Kelly advanced from the Republican primary for Michigan House of Representatives District 93 on August 6, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Kelly	100.0	10,058

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	Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 10,058
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Graham Filler (R)

Campaign finance

Endorsements

2022

See also: Michigan State Senate elections, 2022

General election

General election for Michigan State Senate District 35

Kristen McDonald Rivet defeatedAnnette Glenn in the general election for Michigan State Senate District 35 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Kristen McDonald Rivet (D)	53.4	62,105
		Annette Glenn (R)	46.6	54,246

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	There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 116,351
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 35

Kristen McDonald Rivet advanced from the Democratic primary for Michigan State Senate District 35 on August 2, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Kristen McDonald Rivet	100.0	22,585

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	There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 22,585
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 35

Annette Glenn defeatedTim Kelly,Christian Velasquez, andMartin Blank in the Republican primary for Michigan State Senate District 35 on August 2, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Annette Glenn	40.5	12,360
		Tim Kelly	22.3	6,815
		Christian Velasquez	19.2	5,867
		Martin Blank	17.9	5,460

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	There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 30,502
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Campaign finance

2020

See also: Michigan's 5th Congressional District election, 2020

Michigan's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 4 Republican primary)

Michigan's 5th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 4 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Michigan District 5

IncumbentDan Kildee defeatedTim Kelly,Kathy Goodwin, andJames Harris in the general election for U.S. House Michigan District 5 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Dan Kildee (D)	54.5	196,599
		Tim Kelly (R)	41.8	150,772
		Kathy Goodwin (Working Class Party)	2.3	8,180
		James Harris (L)	1.5	5,481

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	Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 361,032
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 5

IncumbentDan Kildee advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Michigan District 5 on August 4, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Dan Kildee	100.0	91,288

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	Incumbents arebolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 91,288
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Matthew Clauss (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 5

Tim Kelly defeatedEarl Lackie in the Republican primary for U.S. House Michigan District 5 on August 4, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Tim Kelly	79.3	37,545
	Submit photo	Earl Lackie	20.7	9,822

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	There were noincumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 47,367
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Christina Fitchett-Hickson (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Michigan District 5

James Harris advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Michigan District 5 on July 18, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		James Harris (L)

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Working Class Party convention

Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 5

Kathy Goodwin advanced from the Working Class Party convention for U.S. House Michigan District 5 on July 26, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Kathy Goodwin (Working Class Party)

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2018

See also:Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2018

Tim Kelly was not able to file for re-election due to term limits.

2016

See also:Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2016

Elections for theMichigan House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was April 19, 2016.

IncumbentTim Kelly defeatedKevin Seamon in the Michigan House of Representatives District 94 general election.^[1]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 94 General Election, 2016
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Tim KellyIncumbent	64.77%	30,150
	Democratic	Kevin Seamon	35.23%	16,402
Total Votes				46,552
Source:Michigan Secretary of State

Kevin Seamon ran unopposed in the Michigan House of Representatives District 94 Democratic primary.^[2][3]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 94 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party		Candidate
	Democratic	Kevin Seamon (unopposed)

IncumbentTim Kelly ran unopposed in the Michigan House of Representatives District 94 Republican primary.^[2][3]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 94 Republican Primary, 2016
Party		Candidate
	Republican	Tim KellyIncumbent (unopposed)

2014

See also:Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for theMichigan House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election was held on August 5, 2014, and a general election was held onNovember 4, 2014. Thesignature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was April 22, 2014.Vincent Mosca was unopposed in the Democratic primary. IncumbentTim Kelly was unopposed in the Republican primary. Kelly defeated Mosca in the general election.^[4][5][6][7]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 94 General Election, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Tim KellyIncumbent	62.4%	20,925
	Democratic	Vincent Mosca	37.6%	12,634
Total Votes				33,559

2012

See also:Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2012

Kelly won election in the2012 election forMichigan House of Representatives District 94. He defeatedAnn M. Doyle andRyan McReynolds in the August 7 Republican primary and defeatedJudith Lincoln (D) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.^[8]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 94, General Election, 2012

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Tim Kelly	56%	26,256
	Democratic	Judith Lincoln	44%	20,630
Total Votes				46,886

Michigan House of Representatives, District 94 Republican Primary, 2012

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Tim Kelly	50.9%	4,012
Ann Doyle	44.1%	3,475
Ryan McReynolds	5%	392
Total Votes		7,879

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Tim Kelly did not completeBallotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2022

Tim Kelly did not completeBallotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Tim Kelly completedBallotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Kelly's responses.

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2012

Kelly's website highlighted the following campaign themes:^[9]

Jobs

• Excerpt: "Tim’s career has focused on improving and streamlining government and helping Michigan’s job providers thrive and create new jobs."

Education

• Excerpt: "Tim’s hands-on public policy also includes our public schools. In 1995, Governor John Engler asked Tim to serve as his Education Policy Advisor."

Healthcare

• Excerpt: "Tim’s experience tells him more government intervention and intrusion into the health care market place is not the answer to reducing the health insurance costs that are killing jobs in Michigan and putting health insurance out of reach for too many in Saginaw County. "

Government Reform

• Excerpt: "Tim will fight for more transparency in government and to limit government to only those roles that make sense for Saginaw County taxpayers."

Campaign finance summary

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Noteworthy events

Nomination

In September 2017, Kelly was nominated by the Trump administration for a position with the U.S. Department of Education.^[10] Kelly announced on November 9, 2017, that the administration withdrew his name from consideration for the post because of comments he made on his blog, the "Citizen Leader," between 2009 and 2012. An official in the administration toldEducation Week that the nomination was withdrawn because "it became clear that Mr. Kelly had made a series of statements that were not reflective of the secretary's values."^[11]

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2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

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