2025 Capitol Tracker

The lawmakers, bills and votes of the 69th Montana Legislature

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Last update: 3:05 PM Apr 17, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Sen. Denise Hayman, SD 32

Sen. Denise Hayman

Sixth-session Democrat from Bozeman
Representing Senate District 32
Northwest Bozeman
406-579-1986 • denise.hayman@legmt.gov
Committees •Bills •Key votes •Voting stats •2024 election margin •

Hayman previously served in the Montana Senate in 2023, as well as the House in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021.

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Committee assignments

Senate Taxation
Senate State Administration - Vice-chair
Senate Energy and Telecommunications
Senate Executive Review Committee
Senate Legislative Administration - Vice-chair

Bills sponsored

None at present
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 2,051 Senate floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 76%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for Senate Democrats is 78%.
🔴 66%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for Senate Democrats is 67%.
🔵 93%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for Senate Democrats is 94%.
Hayman has been marked absent or excused for 56 votes. Average for Senate lawmakers is 21.6.

SD 32 election results

Last in-cycle for Senate election in 2022. House seats are elected every two years, Senate seats every four.

General election vote, 2022

(D) PAT FLOWERS(D) 52%(R) 48%
Won by 5% (490 votes)

Party primary vote, 2022

(D) PAT FLOWERS(D) 100%
Ran unopposed

Governor vote in district, 2024

(D) RYAN BUSSE(D) 52%(R) 45%
Won by 7% (941 votes)
Senators elected in 2022 were assigned new districts during the 2023 redistricting cycle.

About the 2025 Montana Free Press Capitol Tracker

This guide is an effort to make the quantifiable aspects of the Montana Legislature more accessible to the public by compiling information about lawmakers, proposed bills and the legislative process. This is a project of Montana Free Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit newsroom that aims to provide Montanans with in-depth, nonpartisan news coverage.

The information presented here is collected from a variety of sources including the Montana Legislature's public roster and its official bill-tracking system. Reporting and web design were done by Jacob Olness and Eric Dietrich. Please contact them at jolness@montanafreepress.org and edietrich@montanafreepress.org with bug reports, questions or suggestions.

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