- Lead
- 3,997
- Total
- 12,874
- vs nation
- D+32.5
Montana 50th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,391
- Total
- 12,881
- vs nation
- D+29.6
- Lead
- 2,649
- Total
- 10,242
- vs nation
- D+23.8
- Lead
- 2,834
- Total
- 9,558
- vs nation
- D+25.8
- Lead
- 3,762
- Total
- 10,022
- vs nation
- D+30.3
- Lead
- 1,575
- Total
- 8,605
- vs nation
- D+20.8
- Lead
- 142
- Total
- 7,717
- vs nation
- D+1.3
- Lead
- 1,759
- Total
- 7,528
- vs nation
- D+14.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+31.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 21,4242024 5-year
- Population density
- 220 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 97.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,9872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+79.5 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+10.1 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 48, MT · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Montana 50th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
William J. Bryan1896
89.8%
430 votes · D+79.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 74.4%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1956
54.9%
1,508 votes · R+9.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 53.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,398votes
65.2% of the vote · D+34.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,202 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
4,205votes
32.7% of the vote · D+31.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 4,007 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
William J. Bryan1896
+85.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+79.5 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +37.7 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2000
−1.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+1.8 · U.S. D+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −4.8 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.
Its Democratic presidential margin was D+31.0 in 2024 and D+37.5 in 2008. About 4,570 residents lived here as of the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.5 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 10.1 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.0 points.
A population of 21,424, a 85% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,987 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 48 and State Senate District 49.
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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