2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 5:44 AM Apr 15, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Sen. Mark Noland, SD 6

Sen. Mark Noland

Sixth-session Republican from Bigfork
Representing Senate District 6
Bigfork, East of Kalispell

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

Montana Free Press coverage

📰 2025 Legislature
Right-to-work legislation voted down twice in one day
Mar 1, 2025Brad Tyer
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Two bills targeting organized labor die at the Montana Legislature
Feb 24, 2025Zeke Lloyd

Committee assignments

Senate Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs - Chair 🪑
Senate Natural Resources
Senate Fish and Game
Senate Committee on Committees

Bills sponsored

📋 SJ 4: Joint resolution calling for convention of the states to require a balanced budget
1st Cmte.
Senate
⚪️House
📋 SR 8: Confirm governor's appointees for board of architects and landscape architects
1st Cmte.
Senate
📋 SR 13: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of barbers and cosmetologists
1st Cmte.
Senate
📋 SB 16: Allowing legislative committees to find contempt for violation of legislative subpoena
1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SR 24: Confirm governor's appointees for the commission for human rights
1st Cmte.
Senate
📋 SR 28: Confirm governor's appointees for board of professional engineers and professional land surveyors
1st Cmte.
Senate
📋 SR 30: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of horseracing
1st Cmte.
Senate
📋 SR 37: Confirm governor's appointees for board of clinical laboratory science practitioners
1st Cmte.
Senate
📋 SR 39: Confirm governor's appointee for board of personnel appeals
1st Cmte.
Senate
📋 SR 41: Confirm governor's appointees for the state electrical board
1st Cmte.
Senate
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 1,930 Senate floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 81%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for Senate Republicans is 86%.
🔴 91%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for Senate Republicans is 89%.
🔵 62%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for Senate Republicans is 69%.
Noland has been marked absent or excused for 2 votes. Average for Senate lawmakers is 21.0.

SD 6 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) 27%
Won by 45% (6,619 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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