In addition to ballot proposals and city elections across Michigan on Tuesday, voters in two districts for the state House of Representatives will choose replacements for politicians who are no longer in office.

Former state Rep. Brian Banks, D-Detroit, left the House in January after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of filing false financial statements in a 2010 application for a loan, the latest in a string of financial crime convictions for Banks.

Former state Rep. John Kivela, D-Marquette, committed suicide in May, a day after his second arrest on suspicion of drunken driving.

Both had been re-elected in November despite their problems being well-known in their districts.

Hoping to replace Banks are Democrat Tenisha Yancey, a Harper Woods attorney; Republican Mark Corcoran, a home contractor from Grosse Pointe Woods, and Libertarian Gregory Creswell, a Detroit resident who has run for governor and for a congressional seat four times.

Yancey, a former Wayne County prosecutor and current member of the Harper Woods school board, is a prohibitive favorite in the race because the district, which includes portions of Detroit, Harper Woods, Grosse Pointe Woods and the Village of Grosse Pointe Shores, votes heavily Democratic. Banks won the 2016 race with 68% of the vote.

However, Yancey has had criminal troubles of her own. More than 20 years ago, as a teenager, she was convicted twice of retail fraud in Portage and Battle Creek, and stalking and failure to leave the scene of a property-damage accident in Detroit, in what has been described as a fight with a romantic rival.

She has alluded to the problems during the campaign, saying that she has been able to overcome bad decisions to become a lawyer.

Since the primary, Yancey has only raised $3,183 of the $57,666 she raised mostly before the more competitive primary race in August. Corcoran, a self-described Tea Party activist, said he wasn't going to raise or spend more than $1,000 for his campaign.

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The 109th district is far more competitive, even though it's traditionally been a Democratic stronghold that hasn't elected a Republican to the House of Representatives since 1952.

The candidates — Democrat Sara Cambensy and Republican Rich Rossway — are waging a fierce battle for Kivela's seat. Both are getting extensive support from their political parties and members of the current House of Representatives and both are diligently knocking on doors throughout the Upper Peninsula district that includes the counties of Schoolcraft, Luce, Alger and Marquette.

"What I see is that people are feeling left behind in Michigan. I look at cities and townships having to operate with less and less from Lansing," said Cambensy, a Marquette City Commissioner and director of adult and continuing education for Marquette Community Schools. "They have to go to voters to increase millages for road fixes. Seniors who can’t afford prescription drugs. The cost of energy for some of the district is twice what it is in the city of Marquette. And people are really sick of big corporate tax breaks that they’re handing out in Lansing."

Rossway, an advertising sales executive for a Marquette television station and president of the Marquette Community Schools Board, said education funding and safety concerns of the prison employees at three correctional facilities in the district are his primary concern.

"People in the district worry about fundamental things like jobs, family and the cost of auto insurance. And of course, the economy is a big challenge for people," he said. "I want this job because I feel I can make a difference. I’ve been very successful with the Marquette school board and we need someone who can work across the aisle."

Cambensy has a fundraising advantage in the race with $30,778 in cash available for the final days of the race. She's gotten contributions from a dozen unions, including the UAW and the Michigan Education Association, along with $10,000 from the Democratic State Central Committee and at least 15 Democratic state representatives.

Rossway reported $27,480 in available cash and has received $7,500 from the Michigan Republican Party, $1,000 from Matthew Moroun, who, along with his family, owns the Ambassador Bridge, and at least 15 donations from Republicans in the state House of Representatives.

Also running in the 109th district is Green Party candidate Wade Roberts of Wetmore.

Contact Kathleen Gray: 313-223-4430, kgray99@freepress.com or on Twitter @michpoligal