L. Brooks Patterson has been elected to his seventh term as executive of Michigan's second-largest county.
The Republican Patterson defeated Democrat Vicki Barnett in Tuesday's general election. He has been executive of the county north of Detroit since 1993.
Barnett is former mayor of Farmington Hills.
Patterson has boasted Oakland County's low unemployment rate of about 3.5 percent and a per capita personal income of about $60,000.
In 2012, he was in a car wreck that put him in a coma for 17 days. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt in the crash and was fined.
Patterson has said he was "stupid" for not wearing a seat belt. His driver was made a quadriplegic from the crash.
