The split-ticket voters were decisive for Bullock, who won just 50.3% of the vote, enough to defeat Republican challenger Greg Gianforte by 16,000 votes. Gianforte won the governorship four years ...

Split-ticket voting nationally peaked in the 1970s with about 30% of the electorate choosing candidates of different parties ...

The 2026 general election is just about a year away. The races for Montana’s U.S. Senate and House seats are taking shape.

Tired of being one of the very last states to vote in primary presidential elections, Montana is again debating whether it ...

Three- and four-way elections tip toward candidates with comparatively liberal backing in Billings and Kalispell.

Despite widespread speculation of fraud, election denial and doubts about the integrity of the vote, a nonpartisan group with eyes on Montana’s electoral process found no such evidence. The state had ...

The Montana Election Observation Initiative hosted a public forum on Wednesday in advance of the state's municipal election to highlight organizational changes and encourage new ways for the community ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Following Montana Republicans’ overwhelming dominance in the fall election, a group of GOP lawmakers kicked off the 2025 Legislature with an unexpected move: ceding power to ...

As you may know by now, that all changed when one of the candidates for Montana’s at-large congressional seat got slapped with an assault charge for allegedly body-slamming a reporter hours before the ...

HELENA, Mont. — A coalition of Montana tribes and Native advocacy organizations has moved to join a lawsuit challenging a new state law that eliminates most Election Day voter registration, arguing it ...

Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, the state’s top election official, says her office will use a federal database ...