MI SB1050

Allows county boards of commissioners in counties with populations under 75,000 to adopt resolutions conducting nonpartisan elections for county clerk, county treasurer, register of deeds, prosecuting attorney, sheriff, drain commissioner, surveyor, and coroner during decennial census years through the third year following.

Permits township boards of trustees in townships with populations under 75,000 to adopt resolutions conducting nonpartisan elections for supervisor, clerk, treasurer, and trustee during the same decennial census period.

Allows counties and townships adopting nonpartisan elections to hold nonpartisan primary elections where the top candidates (up to twice the number of positions available) advance to the general election, with the same nominating petition and filing fee requirements as partisan elections.

Requires incumbent county and township officials to have their office designation printed on the ballot if they are candidates for the same office under nonpartisan election procedures.

Takes effect 90 days after enactment and makes conforming amendments to election procedures, ballot formatting, and vacancy-filling provisions to accommodate nonpartisan elections.