2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 3:48 AM Apr 15, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Rep. Ed Byrne, HD 11

Rep. Ed Byrne

First-session Republican from Bigfork
Representing House District 11
East of Kalispell
406-871-6001 • Ed.Byrne@legmt.gov
Committees •Bills •Key votes •Voting stats •2024 election margin •MTFP Coverage

2025 is the first session Byrne has served in the Legislature.

Montana Free Press coverage

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After a decade of failed attempts, bill establishing Indigenous Peoples Day poised to become law
Apr 10, 2025 • Nora Mabie
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Gianforte’s second-home tax faces legislative headwinds
Mar 30, 2025 • Eric Dietrich

Committee assignments

House State Administration
House Transportation
House Fish, Wildlife and Parks

Bills sponsored

📋 HB 212: Limit liability of agricultural vehicles
Ed Byrne (R)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
❌Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 213: Revise residential and commercial property tax rate
Ed Byrne (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
❌1st Cmte.
⚪️House
⚪️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 329: Make the Montana ammunition act permanent
Ed Byrne (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
✅Senate
✴️Reconcil.
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 528: Revise property tax rates for agricultural, residential, and commercial property
Ed Byrne (R)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note📰 2 MTFP stories
✅1st Cmte.
✅House
✴️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 739: Revise laws for agricultural vehicles on the highway
Ed Byrne (R)📃 Bill text
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✅Senate
✴️Gov.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 2,117 House floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 79%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for House Republicans is 88%.
🔴 87%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for House Republicans is 92%.
🔵 57%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for House Republicans is 66%.
Byrne has been marked absent or excused for 2 votes. Average for House lawmakers is 19.2.

HD 11 election results

Last in-cycle for House election in 2024. House seats are elected every two years, Senate seats every four.

General election vote, 2024

(R) ED BYRNE(R) 76%(D) 24%
Won by 52% (3,549 votes)

Party primary vote, 2024

(R) ED BYRNE(R) 63%(R) 37%
Won by 26% (680 votes)

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 75%(D) 23%
Won by 52% (3,703 votes)

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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