Gary C. Peters
Democrat · MI · U.S. Senate
Gary C. Peters is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Abdul El-Sayed vs. Mike Rogers.
D +44 points of win probability since January.
Bio
Gary Charles Peters is an American politician, lawyer, and former naval officer serving as the senior United States senator from Michigan, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 14th congressional district, which included the eastern half of Detroit, the Grosse Pointes, Hamtramck, Southfield, and Pontiac, from 2009 to 2015.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.7 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 11.7y
- First took office
- 2009 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 38 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 67
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Detroit, MI · 313-226-6020
- Grand Rapids, MI · 616-233-9150
- Lansing, MI · 517-377-1508
- Marquette, MI · 906-226-4554
- Pontiac, MI · 248-608-8040
- Flint, MI · 989-754-0112
- Traverse City, MI · 231-947-7773
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $4.3M – $11.9M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $4.3M – $11.9M
- Since 2018
- +$3.7M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Gary C. Peters's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Gary C. Peters (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Peterssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Peters's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
GOP Could Flip Michigan Senate Seat for First Time in Nearly 50 YearsRepublicans have a shot at a Michigan Senate seat that Democrats have held since 1979, and three weeks before Election Day on November 3 the race between former Representative Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is close. The seat is open because Democrat…
Biztoc.com · Yesterday- Planned Parenthood Will Spend $1 Million, Helping Abdul El-Sayed
Planned Parenthood Votes will spend another $1 million on digital ads attacking Republican Senate candidates in Maine and Michigan, an outlay that boosts radical pro-abortion Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the race to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters. The super …
Freerepublic.com · October 7, 2026 
Michigan is a battleground in 2026: An open Senate seat after Sen. Gary Peters' retirement has both parties fighting for it all in US midterm electionsMichigan's open Senate seat becomes highly contested with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers. El-Sayed focuses on healthcare reform, advocating for Medicare for All and reducing medical debt. Conversely, Rogers emphasizes restoring manufacturi…
The Times of India · October 6, 2026
Swing-state Republican caught red-handed burying his old war cheerleadingMichigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers is now blaming the Iran war for skyrocketing grocery prices in his newest campaign ad, a jarring reversal for a hawkish former congressman who spent months publicly cheering on the very conflict he's now demanding Tru…
Raw Story · September 25, 2026
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