 After her tenure as Secretary of State, she was elected as a Michigan State Senator.In 2014, Johnson defeated Detroit lawyer and Democrat Godfrey Dillard, Libertarian James Lewis, US Taxpayers Robert Gale, and Natural Law Jason Gatties to earn a second term by 10.6 percentage points, receiving 1,649,047 votes to the defeated candidates 1,431,748 votes.She drew more votes than any other Republican candidate on the ballot.