About 53 percent of the voters participated in Tuesday's Democratic primary and about 47 percent chose among the Republican slate.

That compares to 67 percent cast for GOP candidates in August 2010, the last primary with an open governor's seat and contested races for both Republicans and Democrats.

Voter enthusiasm was so high in Oakland County that some precincts ran out of ballots.

Election workers in communities including Ferndale, Berkley, Oak Park and Farmington Hills had to scramble to print more ballots so everyone could vote.

With 90% of the vote counted statewide, she'd accumulated 51.6% of ballots cast, to El-Sayed's 31.4% and Thanedar's 16.9%, according to the Associated Press. Whitmer even seems to have won in Detroit, where young progressives hoped El-Sayed had gained a foothold.