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Montana

Office (updates table and map)

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1892–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1892 → 2024

2024StatewideR+19.9

56 counties by 2024 margin · County presidential returns

County results56 areas · 2024 President vote · select an area for its full record

MissoulaD+21.4Dem 42,903Rep 27,306Other 2,564Total 72,773GlacierD+19.6Dem 2,933Rep 1,939Other 206Total 5,078Silver BowD+7.0Dem 9,386Rep 8,110Other 730Total 18,226GallatinD+3.2Dem 34,938Rep 32,695Other 2,264Total 69,897Deer LodgeD+1.0Dem 2,376Rep 2,329Other 165Total 4,870Big HornR+1.7Dem 2,112Rep 2,188Other 170Total 4,470Lewis and ClarkR+5.7Dem 19,085Rep 21,479Other 1,459Total 42,023BlaineR+5.9Dem 1,348Rep 1,526Other 145Total 3,019ParkR+7.7Dem 5,224Rep 6,128Other 365Total 11,717RooseveltR+9.6Dem 1,680Rep 2,055Other 179Total 3,914HillR+18.2Dem 2,634Rep 3,871Other 299Total 6,804LakeR+19.9Dem 6,510Rep 9,880Other 520Total 16,910CascadeR+22.3Dem 14,021Rep 22,419Other 1,143Total 37,583YellowstoneR+27.1Dem 28,392Rep 50,460Other 2,539Total 81,391ChouteauR+32.2Dem 940Rep 1,885Other 109Total 2,934CarbonR+32.4Dem 2,353Rep 4,719Other 225Total 7,297FlatheadR+33.8Dem 20,062Rep 41,390Other 1,688Total 63,140JeffersonR+36.5Dem 2,516Rep 5,544Other 231Total 8,291RosebudR+37.1Dem 1,095Rep 2,466Other 132Total 3,693RavalliR+40.6Dem 8,485Rep 20,617Other 802Total 29,904PonderaR+41.7Dem 782Rep 1,972Other 98Total 2,852SheridanR+42.5Dem 509Rep 1,321Other 82Total 1,912BeaverheadR+43.4Dem 1,543Rep 4,058Other 193Total 5,794GraniteR+44.0Dem 579Rep 1,537Other 60Total 2,176TetonR+45.0Dem 927Rep 2,533Other 108Total 3,568MadisonR+45.3Dem 1,689Rep 4,615Other 157Total 6,461MineralR+48.0Dem 689Rep 2,049Other 95Total 2,833CusterR+48.7Dem 1,385Rep 4,208Other 204Total 5,797ValleyR+51.1Dem 935Rep 3,019Other 125Total 4,079FergusR+51.3Dem 1,522Rep 4,965Other 225Total 6,712Sweet GrassR+53.1Dem 525Rep 1,789Other 67Total 2,381LincolnR+53.4Dem 2,615Rep 8,909Other 265Total 11,789PowellR+53.5Dem 710Rep 2,466Other 106Total 3,282MeagherR+53.9Dem 256Rep 888Other 28Total 1,172LibertyR+54.5Dem 214Rep 752Other 22Total 988SandersR+55.1Dem 1,705Rep 6,150Other 214Total 8,069TooleR+56.5Dem 415Rep 1,571Other 60Total 2,046Judith BasinR+58.1Dem 265Rep 1,051Other 37Total 1,353WheatlandR+58.4Dem 209Rep 843Other 34Total 1,086DawsonR+58.9Dem 894Rep 3,627Other 117Total 4,638BroadwaterR+60.0Dem 885Rep 3,770Other 155Total 4,810PrairieR+61.6Dem 122Rep 546Other 20Total 688StillwaterR+61.7Dem 1,056Rep 4,699Other 151Total 5,906PhillipsR+62.5Dem 385Rep 1,753Other 51Total 2,189DanielsR+65.6Dem 154Rep 778Other 19Total 951RichlandR+68.0Dem 778Rep 4,387Other 144Total 5,309TreasureR+70.1Dem 57Rep 367Other 18Total 442MusselshellR+71.5Dem 396Rep 2,550Other 66Total 3,012WibauxR+71.8Dem 71Rep 463Other 12Total 546Golden ValleyR+72.4Dem 67Rep 440Other 8Total 515McConeR+74.1Dem 129Rep 931Other 22Total 1,082Powder RiverR+75.2Dem 131Rep 963Other 12Total 1,106FallonR+75.6Dem 163Rep 1,303Other 41Total 1,507PetroleumR+76.2Dem 37Rep 284Other 3Total 324CarterR+80.2Dem 75Rep 760Other 19Total 854GarfieldR+89.6Dem 39Rep 756Other 5Total 800

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German22.9%12.5%

Irish13.5%9.4%

English13.1%9.5%

Norwegian7.5%—

American5.4%5.3%

Italian3.2%4.8%

Scottish2.6%1.3%

Swedish1.4%—

Blackfeet1.0%—

Mexican2.9%11.3%

Spaniard0.3%—

Spanish0.3%—

Puerto Rican0.2%1.8%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	Montana	United States
Median age	40.8	39.1
Age 18–24	9.1%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	20.0%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	Montana	United States
Median household income	$72,509	$84,427
Poverty rate	11.5%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	35.3%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	Montana	United States
Owner-occupied homes	69.2%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	30.8%	34.8%
Median home value	$375,800	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,081	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	44.8%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	13.2%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	Montana	United States
Mean commute	19.1 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	4.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	71.1%	68.8%
Takes public transit	0.6%	3.2%
Works from home	12.5%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	Montana	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	4.2%	22.3%
Spanish	1.5%	13.6%

Religious landscape

Measure	Montana	United States
Catholic	10.3%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	13.6%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	65.3%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	Montana	United States
Foreign-born residents	2.3%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	1.2%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	1.1%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	9.0%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.465	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

2024 turnout 70.3% of 871,202 citizens 18+

HarrisDemocratic38.5%231,906TrumpRepublican58.4%352,079KennedyWe The People2.0%11,825

R+19.9

Lead: 120,173
Total: 602,990
vs nation: R+18.5
Turnout: 70.3%

BidenDemocratic40.5%244,786TrumpRepublican56.9%343,602JorgensenLibertarian2.5%15,252

R+16.4

Lead: 98,816
Total: 603,674
vs nation: R+20.8
Turnout: 74.3%

ClintonDemocratic35.4%177,709TrumpRepublican55.6%279,240JohnsonLibertarian5.6%28,037

R+20.2

Lead: 101,531
Total: 501,822
vs nation: R+22.3
Turnout: 65.5%

ObamaDemocratic41.7%201,839RomneyRepublican55.3%267,928JohnsonLibertarian2.9%14,165

R+13.6

Lead: 66,089
Total: 484,484
vs nation: R+17.5
Turnout: —

ObamaDemocratic47.2%232,159MccainRepublican49.6%243,882PaulConstitution Party2.2%10,638

R+2.4

Lead: 11,723
Total: 491,768
vs nation: R+9.7
Turnout: —

KerryDemocratic38.6%173,710BushRepublican59.1%266,063NaderIndependent1.4%6,168

R+20.5

Lead: 92,353
Total: 450,445
vs nation: R+18.0
Turnout: —

GoreDemocratic33.4%137,126BushRepublican58.4%240,178NaderGreen5.9%24,437

R+25.1

Lead: 103,052
Total: 410,986
vs nation: R+25.6
Turnout: —

ClintonDemocratic41.3%167,922DoleRepublican44.1%179,652PerotReform Party13.6%55,229

R+2.9

Lead: 11,730
Total: 407,083
vs nation: R+11.4
Turnout: —

Montana has voted Republican for president in every election but one since 1968, and 2024 widened the line to R+19.9, its largest in five cycles. Yet the Democratic vote has not vanished so much as concentrated. Of the state’s fifty-six counties, five went Democratic in 2024, and they tell the whole story: Missoula County, home to the University of Montana, at D+21.4, the bluest in the state; Silver Bow County — Butte, the old union mining town — at D+7.0; Deer Lodge at D+1.0; Gallatin, around Bozeman, at D+3.2; and Glacier County, on the Blackfeet Reservation, at D+19.6. The reddest is Garfield County, on the eastern plains, at R+89.6.

For a generation that map sustained a split ticket. Jon Tester, a Democrat and a farmer from Big Sandy, won a U.S. Senate seat in 2006 and held it through 2012 and 2018, running ahead of his party in a state his presidential ticket kept losing. In 2024 that ended: Tester lost the seat as Montana gave Donald Trump twenty points, closing eighteen years of split-ticket results. The reservation counties moved the same year. Big Horn County, on the Crow Reservation, had voted Democratic through 2020; in 2024 it went Republican by 1.7 points. Blaine County, by Fort Belknap, made the same crossing, from D+3.8 in 2020 to R+5.9.

Underneath the politics is a small, white, and lightly churched state of 1.1 million. American Indian residents are its largest minority, drawn around seven reservations, and the combined American Indian, Pacific Islander, and other-single-race share is 5.9 percent of the population. Montana ranks fourth of the fifty states in residents claiming no religion, at 65.3 percent, and sixth in Latter-day Saints. Its median household income, $72,509, runs below the U.S. figure of $80,734, 36th of fifty; 35.3 percent of adults hold a bachelor’s degree, 22nd. It is among the oldest states by median age, tenth at 40.8 years.

current representation

Current officeholders

RGreg GianforteGovernor

RKristen JurasLieutenant Governor

RChristi JacobsenSecretary of State

RAustin KnudsenAttorney General

RJames BrownState Auditor (Commissioner of Securities and Insurance)

RSusie HedalenSuperintendent of Public Instruction

RSteve DainesU.S. Senate+0.59

RTim SheehyU.S. Senate+0.65

U.S. House2 seats · R 2

RMT-01Ryan Zinke

RMT-02Troy Downing

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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