2025 Capitol Tracker

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

A digital guide by MTFP Logo | Support this work
Last update: 5:44 AM Apr 15, 2025
🗂 All bills🔎 Find a bill🔎 Find a lawmaker🏡 Your district🗓 Calendar
🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Rep. George Nikolakakos, HD 22

Rep. George Nikolakakos

Second-session Republican from Great Falls
Representing House District 22
East Great Falls, Malmstrom Air Force Base

Nikolakakos previously served in the Montana House in 2023.

Montana Free Press coverage

📰 2025 Legislature
Democrats pitch property tax relief via income tax credit
Jan 21, 2025Eric Dietrich
📰 Missoula
Montana legislators propose law to protect residents of mobile home parks
Jan 15, 2025

Committee assignments

House Taxation
House Human Services
House Legislative Administration - Chair 🪑

Bills sponsored

📋 HJ 13: Resolution supporting congressional term limits
1st Cmte.
⚪️House
⚪️Senate
📋 HJ 16: Resolution on renewable energy
1st Cmte.
⚪️House
⚪️Senate
📋 HB 53: Revise law allowing for troop labor to execute projects
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
Gov.
📋 HB 348: Revise special session polling laws
1st Cmte.
House
Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 433: Preserve right to keep and bear arms via a presumption of innocence
1st Cmte.
House
⚪️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 553: Generally revise military higher education act
1st Cmte.
House
✴️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 605: Revise criminal laws related to strip searches
1st Cmte.
House
✴️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 618: Provide for a Montana individual freedom act
1st Cmte.
⚪️House
⚪️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 635: Revise human rights laws to prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion programs
1st Cmte.
House
⚪️Senate
⚪️Gov.
📋 HB 708: Allow all persons serving in the reserves to be eligible for certain CDL waiver
1st Cmte.
House
✴️Senate
⚪️Gov.
Showing 10 of 14.
Capitolized newsletter
Expert reporting and insight from the Montana Capitol, emailed Thursdays.

Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 2,117 House floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 94%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for House Republicans is 88%.
🔴 89%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for House Republicans is 92%.
🔵 76%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for House Republicans is 66%.
Nikolakakos has been marked absent or excused for 2 votes. Average for House lawmakers is 19.2.

HD 22 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) GEORGE NIKOLAKAKOS(R) 62%(D) 38%
Won by 24% (792 votes)

Party primary vote, 2024

(R) GEORGE NIKOLAKAKOS(R) 72%(R) 28%
Won by 44% (413 votes)

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 59%(D) 38%
Won by 20% (690 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.

Think there's a potential news story to be done about a bill or lawmaker you see here? Tell us at tips@montanafreepress.org.