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. Mike Cuffe, SD 1

Sen. Mike Cuffe

Eighth-session Republican from Eureka
Representing Senate District 1
Libby, Troy, Eureaka

Mike Cuffe previously served in the Montana Senate in 2019, 2021 and 2023, as well as the House in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.

Committee assignments

Senate Finance and Claims
Senate Natural Resources
Senate Energy and Telecommunications
Joint Appropriations Section C — Natural Resources and Transportation - Vice-chair

Bills sponsored

📋 SB 56: Supplemental employer contribution for PERS, HPORS, SRS, GWPORS
1st Cmte.
✴️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 57: Revise county canvassing processes
1st Cmte.
✴️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 58: Revise vote count procedures
1st Cmte.
✴️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 59: Staff Sergeant Arthur J Rambo memorial bridge
1st Cmte.
Senate
House
Gov.
📋 SB 191: Provide for the licensure of residential treatment centers
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 226: Require petition submittals be dropped off within a specific timeframe
✴️1st Cmte.
⚪️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
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Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 152 Senate floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 93%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for Senate Republicans is 89%.
🔴 92%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for Senate Republicans is 92%.
🔵 70%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for Senate Republicans is 62%.
Cuffe has been marked absent or excused for 0 votes. Average for Senate lawmakers is 0.8.

SD 1 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

(R) MICHAEL J CUFFE(R) 100%
Ran unopposed

Party primary vote, 2022

(R) MICHAEL J CUFFE(R) 100%
Ran unopposed

Governor vote in district, 2024

(R) GREG GIANFORTE(R) 76%(D) 22%
Won by 54% (7,067 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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