Political party strength in Montana
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Montana:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Auditor
- Superintendent of Public Instruction
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the United States Senate
- State delegation to the United States House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Constitution (C), Democratic (D), Republican (R), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | ||
| 1864 | Sidney Edgerton (R)[1] | no such office | no such office | no such office | no electoral votes | |||||||
| 1865 | Thomas Francis Meagher (D)[1][2] | Samuel McLean (D)[3] | ||||||||||
| 1866 | Green Clay Smith[1] | |||||||||||
| 1867 | James M. Cavanaugh (D)[3] | |||||||||||
| 1868 | James Tufts (R)[1][2] | |||||||||||
| 1869 | James Mitchell Ashley (R)[1] | |||||||||||
| Wiley Scribner (R)[1][2] | ||||||||||||
| 1870 | Benjamin F. Potts (R)[1] | |||||||||||
| 1871 | William H. Clagett (R)[3] | |||||||||||
| 1872 | ||||||||||||
| 1873 | Martin Maginnis (D)[3] | |||||||||||
| 1874 | ||||||||||||
| 1875 | ||||||||||||
| 1876 | ||||||||||||
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| 1882 | ||||||||||||
| 1883 | John Schuyler Crosby (R)[1] | |||||||||||
| 1884 | B. Platt Carpenter (R)[1] | |||||||||||
| 1885 | Samuel Thomas Hauser (D)[1] | Joseph Toole (D)[3] | ||||||||||
| 1886 | ||||||||||||
| 1887 | Preston Hopkins Leslie (D)[1] | |||||||||||
| 1888 | ||||||||||||
| 1889 | Benjamin F. White (R)[1] | 8D, 16R | 24R, 21D | Thomas H. Carter (R)[4] | ||||||||
| 1890 | Joseph Toole (D) | John E. Rickards (R) | Louis Rotwitt (R) | Henri J. Haskell | Edwin A. Kenney | Wilbur F. Sanders (R) | Thomas Charles Power (R) | |||||
| 1891 | 10D, 6R | 28R, 27D | William W. Dixon (D) | |||||||||
| 1892 | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R)  | |||||||||||
| 1893 | John E. Rickards (R) | Alexander Campbell Botkin (R) | Andrew B. Cook | 9D, 7R | 26D, 26R, 3 Populist | Vacant[5] | Charles S. Hartman (R) | |||||
| 1894 | ||||||||||||
| 1895 | 13R, 5D, 3Populist | 44R, 14Populist, 3D | Lee Mantle (R)[6] | Thomas H. Carter (R) | ||||||||
| 1896 | Lee Mantle (S) | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) | ||||||||||
| 1897 | Robert Burns Smith (D) | Archibald E. Spriggs | T.S. Hogan (P) | C. B. Nolan | Thomas W. Poindexter, Jr. | 12R, 8D, 3 People's | 42D, 18 People's, 8R | |||||
| 1898 | ||||||||||||
| 1899 | 17D, 6R, 1 Populist | 57D, 9R, 4 Silver | William A. Clark (D)[7] | Albert J. Campbell (D) | ||||||||
| 1900 | Vacant | William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson (D) | ||||||||||
| 1901 | Joseph K. Toole (D)[8] | Frank G. Higgins | George M. Hayes (D) | James Donovan (D) | James H. Calderhead | 14D, 9R, 1 Populist | 28D, 23R, 8 Labor, 6 Populist, 5I | Paris Gibson (D) | William A. Clark (D) | Caldwell Edwards (P) | ||
| 1902 | ||||||||||||
| 1903 | 14D, 12R | 47R, 11 Labor, 8D, 6 Anti-Trust | Joseph M. Dixon (R) | |||||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R)  | |||||||||||
| 1905 | Edwin L. Norris (D) | Abraham N. Yoder (R)[9] | Albert J. Galen (R) | Henry R. Cunningham | 16R, 10D | 38R, 24D, 7 Labor, 3 Anti-Trust | Thomas H. Carter (R) | |||||
| 1906 | ||||||||||||
| 1907 | 18R, 9D | 57R, 16D | Joseph M. Dixon (R) | Charles N. Pray (R) | ||||||||
| 1908 | Edwin L. Norris (D)[10] | Benjamin F. White[2] | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||||
| 1909 | William R. Allen | 17R, 10D | 38D, 33R | |||||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||||||
| 1911 | C.M. McCoy | 16R, 12D | 42D, 32R | Henry L. Myers (D) | ||||||||
| 1912 | Thomas M. Swindlehurst (D) | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | ||||||||||
| 1913 | Sam V. Stewart (D) | W.W. McDowell | Adelbert M. Alderson (D) | Daniel M. Kelly (D) | William Keating | 17D, 13R, 2 Progressive | 49D, 20R, 16 Progressive, 1 Silver | Thomas J. Walsh (D)[9] | 2D | |||
| 1914 | ||||||||||||
| 1915 | J.P. Poindexter (D) | 19R, 16D, 5 Progressive, 1I | 55D, 36R, 3 Silver, 1I | |||||||||
| 1916 | ||||||||||||
| 1917 | Charles T. Stewart (R)[11] | Sam C. Ford (R) | Rufus G. Poland | 28R, 13D | 49D, 46R | 1D, 1R | ||||||
| 1918 | ||||||||||||
| 1919 | George P. Porter | 21R, 12D | 65R, 33D | |||||||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||
| 1921 | Joseph M. Dixon (R) | Nelson Story, Jr. | Wellington D. Rankin(R) | 41R, 13D | 98R, 9D, 1I | 2R | ||||||
| 1922 | ||||||||||||
| 1923 | 38R, 16D | 56R, 44D | Burton K. Wheeler (D) | 1D, 1R | ||||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | |||||||||||
| 1925 | John Edward Erickson (D)[12] | W.S. McCormack | L.A. Foot (R) | 39R, 16D, 1 Farm-Labor | 66R, 34D, 2 Farm-Labor | |||||||
| 1926 | ||||||||||||
| 1927 | Robert N. Hawkins (D)[13] | 40R, 15D, 1 Farm-Labor | 61R, 39D, 2 Farm-Labor | |||||||||
| William Powers[13] | ||||||||||||
| 1928 | John W. Mountjoy (D) | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | ||||||||||
| 1929 | Frank A. Hazelbacker | William E. Harmon (R) | 39R, 16D, 1 Farm-Labor | 69R, 33D | ||||||||
| 1930 | ||||||||||||
| 1931 | 41R, 15D | 59R, 43D | ||||||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | |||||||||||
| 1933 | Frank Henry Cooney (D) | Sam W. Mitchell (D)[9] | Raymond T. Nagle | John J. Holmes | 33R, 22D, 1I | 72D, 29R | John Edward Erickson (D)[6] | 2D | ||||
| Frank Henry Cooney (D)[14][9] | Tom Kane[2] | |||||||||||
| 1934 | Ernest T. Eaton[2] | |||||||||||
| 1935 | Elmer Holt (D)[15] | William R. Pilgeram[2] | 28D, 27R, 1I | 69D, 33R | James E. Murray (D) | |||||||
| 1936 | Enor K. Matson (D) | |||||||||||
| 1937 | Roy E. Ayers (D) | Hugh R. Adnair | Harrison Freebourn (D) | 29D, 27R | 81D, 21R | |||||||
| 1938 | ||||||||||||
| 1939 | 31D, 25R | 58D, 44R | 1D, 1R | |||||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) | |||||||||||
| 1941 | Sam C. Ford (R) | Ernest T. Eaton | John W. Bonner (D) | 35R, 21D | 55D, 47R | |||||||
| 1942 | Howard M. Gullickson (D) | |||||||||||
| 1943 | R.V. Bottomly (D) | 37R, 19D | 51R, 39D | 2D | ||||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) | |||||||||||
| 1945 | 39R, 17D | 53R, 37D | 1D, 1R | |||||||||
| 1946 | ||||||||||||
| 1947 | 41R, 15D | 58R, 31D, 1I | Zales N. Ecton (R) | |||||||||
| 1948 | Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley (D) | |||||||||||
| 1949 | John W. Bonner (D) | Paul Cannon (D) | Arnold Olsen (D) | 31R, 23D, 2I | 54D, 36R | |||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||||||
| 1951 | 28R, 26D, 2I | 49R, 41D | ||||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | |||||||||||
| 1953 | J. Hugo Aronson (R) | George M. Gosman (R) | 36R, 20D | 62R, 32D | Michael J. Mansfield (D) | |||||||
| 1954 | ||||||||||||
| 1955 | 33R, 23D | 49D, 45R | ||||||||||
| 1956 | S.C. Arnold (R)[6] | |||||||||||
| 1957 | Paul Cannon (D) | Frank Murray (D) | Forrest H. Anderson (D) | 31D, 25R | 59D, 35R | 2D | ||||||
| 1958 | ||||||||||||
| 1959 | 38D, 17R, 1I | 61D, 31R, 2I | ||||||||||
| 1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr (R) | |||||||||||
| 1961 | Donald Grant Nutter (R)|[9] | Tim M. Babcock (R) | 38D, 17R, 1I | 54R, 40D | Lee Metcalf (D)[9] | 1D, 1R | ||||||
| 1962 | Tim M. Babcock (R)[10] | David F. James (R)[2] | E.V. "Sonny" Omholt | |||||||||
| 1963 | 35D, 21R | 57R, 37D | ||||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | |||||||||||
| 1965 | Ted James (R) | 32D, 24R | 56D, 38R | |||||||||
| 1966 | ||||||||||||
| 1967 | 30D, 25R | 64R, 40D | ||||||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | |||||||||||
| 1969 | Forrest H. Anderson (D) | Thomas Lee Judge (D) | Robert I. Woodahl (R) | 30D, 25R | 58R, 46D | 2D | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||||||
| 1971 | 30D, 25R | 55R, 49D | 1D, 1R | |||||||||
| 1972 | ||||||||||||
| 1973 | Thomas Lee Judge (D) | Ted Schwinden (D) | 27D, 23R | 54D, 46R | ||||||||
| 1974 | ||||||||||||
| 1975 | 30D, 20R | 67D, 33R | 2D | |||||||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | |||||||||||
| 1977 | Mike Greely (D) | 25D, 25R | 57D, 43R | John Melcher (D) | Paul G. Hatfield (D)[6] | 1D, 1R | ||||||
| 1978 | ||||||||||||
| 1979 | 25R, 24D | 54D, 45R | Max Baucus (D)[16] | |||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) | |||||||||||
| 1981 | Ted Schwinden (D) | George Turman (D) | Jim Waltermire (R)[9] | 28R, 22D | 57R, 43D | |||||||
| 1982 | ||||||||||||
| 1983 | 26R, 24D | 55D, 45R | ||||||||||
| 1984 | ||||||||||||
| 1985 | Andrea Bennett | 28D, 22R | 51D, 49R | |||||||||
| 1986 | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | 25D, 25R | 51R, 49D | ||||||||||
| 1988 | Verner Bertelsen (R)[6] | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | ||||||||||
| 1989 | Stan Stephens (R) | Allen Kolstad (R)[17] | Mike Cooney (D) | Marc Racicot (R) | Nancy Keenan (D) | 27R, 23D | 52D, 48R | Conrad Burns (R) | ||||
| 1990 | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Denny Rehberg (R)[6] | 29D, 21R | 61D, 39R | |||||||||
| 1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) | |||||||||||
| 1993 | Marc Racicot (R) | Joseph Mazurek (D) | Mark O'Keefe (D) | 30D, 20R | 53R, 47D | John Patrick Williams (D) | ||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | 31R, 19D | 67R, 33D | ||||||||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) | |||||||||||
| 1997 | Judy Martz (R) | 34R, 16D | 65R, 35D | Rick Hill (R) | ||||||||
| 1998 | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | 32R, 18D | 59R, 41D | ||||||||||
| 2000 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Judy Martz (R) | Karl Ohs (R) | Bob Brown (R) | Mike McGrath (D) | John Morrison (D) | Linda McCulloch (D) | 31R, 19D | 58R, 42D | Denny Rehberg (R) | |||
| 2002 | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | 29R, 21D | 53R, 47D | ||||||||||
| 2004 | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | Brian Schweitzer (D) | John Bohlinger (R)[18] | Brad Johnson (R) | 27D, 23R | 50D, 50R[19] | |||||||
| 2006 | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | 26D, 24R | 50R, 49D, 1C[20] | Jon Tester (D) | |||||||||
| 2008 | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) | |||||||||||
| 2009 | Linda McCulloch (D) | Steve Bullock (D) | Monica Lindeen (D) | Denise Juneau (D) | 27R, 23D | 50D, 50R[19] | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | 28R, 22D | 68R, 32D | ||||||||||
| 2012 | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) | |||||||||||
| 2013 | Steve Bullock (D) | John Walsh (D) | Timothy C. Fox (R) | 29R, 21D | 61R, 39D | Steve Daines (R) | ||||||
| 2014 | Angela McLean (D) | John Walsh (D)[6] | ||||||||||
| 2015 | 59R, 41D | Steve Daines (R) | Ryan Zinke (R) | |||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Auditor | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate[21] | State House[22] | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
| Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | ||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 Governor of Montana Territory.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Acting.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Delegate from the Montana Territory
- ↑ Delegate from Montana Territory until November 8, when Carter was elected U.S. Representative upon Montana statehood.
- ↑ Legislature failed to elect a Senator at the beginning of the 53rd United States Congress.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Initially appointed to fill a vacancy
- ↑ Resigned May 15, 1900 to avoid claim of election fraud.
- ↑ Resigned due to declining health.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 Died in office.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term, and was later elected in his own right.
- ↑ Impeached and then resigned.
- ↑ Resigned so that his successor could appoint him to the United States Senate.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Resigned
- ↑ As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
- ↑ As president of the state Senate, filled unexpired term.
- ↑ Resigned February 6, 2014 in anticipation of being appointed United States Ambassador to China
- ↑ Resigned to take a presidential appointment to the International Boundary Commission
- ↑ Republican elected on Democratic ticket.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Party control granted to governor's party in the event of a tied house of the legislature.
- ↑ Constitution Party member caucusing with Republicans.
- ↑ Majority and Minority Party Numbers 1889 - Present
- ↑ Majority and Minority Party Numbers 1889 - Present