- Lead
- 5,348
- Total
- 13,187
- vs nation
- R+39.1
Montana 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,606
- Total
- 12,763
- vs nation
- R+40.5
- Lead
- 3,897
- Total
- 10,059
- vs nation
- R+40.8
- Lead
- 2,628
- Total
- 10,150
- vs nation
- R+29.7
- Lead
- 1,469
- Total
- 10,281
- vs nation
- R+21.6
- Lead
- 2,735
- Total
- 9,173
- vs nation
- R+27.4
- Lead
- 2,803
- Total
- 8,399
- vs nation
- R+33.9
- Lead
- 728
- Total
- 8,003
- vs nation
- R+17.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+40.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 21,5662024 5-year
- Population density
- 9.1 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,374 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,7412024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.6 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 28, MT · twin score 93.1
presidential history
Party record book
Montana 7th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1908–2024 · 30 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
61.8%
2,536 votes · D+33.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 60.0%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
68.9%
9,081 votes · R+40.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 66.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
4,136votes
40.2% of the vote · R+14.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 3,936 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
9,081votes
68.9% of the vote · R+40.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 8,542 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Woodrow Wilson1916
+12.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.0 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +10.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+40.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +40.5 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 32.4%3,797 | 67.6%7,922 | 11,719 |
Montana 7th State Senate District sits in the Northern Rockies. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 40.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.6 points.
A population of 21,566, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,741 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 28 and State Senate District 1.
The state-senate districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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