2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 9:36 AM Feb 5, 2025
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🏛 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Sen. Forrest Mandeville, SD 28

Sen. Forrest Mandeville

Second-session Republican from Columbus
Representing Senate District 28
Red Lodge, Columbus

Forrest Mandeville previously served in the Montana Senate in 2023.

Committee assignments

Senate Finance and Claims
Senate Education and Cultural Resources
Senate Local Government - Chair 🪑
Senate Rules - Vice-chair
Joint Appropriations Section A — General Government - Vice-chair

Bills sponsored

📋 SB 10: Extending onsite inspection timelines during state of emergency
1st Cmte.
Senate
✴️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 11: Revise local government ballot issue laws
1st Cmte.
Senate
✴️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 121: Revise the land use and planning act
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 122: Revising the actuarially determined employer contribution rate and setting a minimum contribution rate
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 123: Allowing emergency permitting authority during an emergency
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 141: Providing that the default retirement plan for legislators is the defined contribution plan through PERS
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 142: Revise laws related to election administrator compensation
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 174: Providing that recreational vehicles and mobile homes are reviewed as buildings for rent or lease
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 175: Allowing for streamlined public hearing notice process when revising zoning
1st Cmte.
✴️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 179: Allow antique gambling to be used for living history events and casino nights for fundraising purposes
1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 152 Senate floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 80%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for Senate Republicans is 89%.
🔴 90%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for Senate Republicans is 92%.
🔵 53%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for Senate Republicans is 62%.
Mandeville has been marked absent or excused for 0 votes. Average for Senate lawmakers is 0.8.

SD 28 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

Ran unopposed

Party primary vote, 2022

Ran unopposed

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 72%(D) 25%
Won by 47% (6,780 votes)
Senators elected in 2022 were assigned new districts during the 2023 redistricting cycle.

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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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