2025 Capitol Tracker

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

A digital guide by MTFP Logo | Support this work
Last update: 9:36 AM Feb 5, 2025
🗂 All bills🔎 Find a bill🔎 Find a lawmaker🏡 Your district
🏛 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)
Sen. Pat Flowers, SD 31

Sen. Pat Flowers

Fourth-session Democrat from Belgrade
Senate Minority Leader
Representing Senate District 31
South Bozeman, Huffine Lane
406-580-0035 • pat.flowers@legmt.gov
Committees •Bills •Key votes •Voting stats •2024 election margin •MTFP Coverage

Pat Flowers previously served in the Montana Senate in 2019, 2021 and 2023.

Committee assignments

Senate Finance and Claims
Senate Taxation
Senate Natural Resources
Senate Fish and Game
Senate Executive Review Committee
Senate Rules
Joint Appropriations Section A — General Government

Bills sponsored

📋 SB 63: Revise law related to the use of motion-tracking devices while hunting
Pat Flowers (D)📃 Bill text
✅1st Cmte.
✴️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
📋 SB 64: Clarifying calculation of legislator compensation and expenses during the interim
Pat Flowers (D)📃 Bill text💵 Fiscal note
✅1st Cmte.
✴️Senate
⚪️House
⚪️Gov.
Showing 2 of 2
Capitolized newsletter
Expert reporting and insight from the Montana Capitol, emailed Thursdays.

Floor vote statistics

Calculations based on 152 Senate floor votes in 2025 involving bills.
🥇 74%
of votes cast on winning side
Average for Senate Democrats is 72%.
🔴 64%
of votes cast on side taken by most Republicans
Average for Senate Democrats is 62%.
🔵 98%
of votes cast on side taken by most Democrats
Average for Senate Democrats is 97%.
Flowers has been marked absent or excused for 0 votes. Average for Senate lawmakers is 0.8.

SD 31 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

(D) RYAN BUSSE(D) 58%(R) 39%
Won by 19% (1,910 votes)
Senators elected in 2022 were assigned new districts during the 2023 redistricting cycle.

Montana Free Press coverage

📰 2025 Legislature
Montana House hears trans bathroom bill as Senate stalls out
Jan 10, 2025 • Tom Lutey
📰 Capitolized
Regier’s not fine with The Nine
Jan 10, 2025 • Tom Lutey
📰 2025 Legislature
Montana Senate works to get back on track
Jan 8, 2025 • Tom Lutey
📰 2025 Legislature
Republican-majority Legislature arrives in Helena, gavels in new session
Jan 6, 2025 • Tom Lutey

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.