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Montana State Senate elections, 2024
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| Primary | June 4, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Montana State Senate took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was June 4, 2024. The filing deadline was March 11, 2024.
Following the election, Republicans lost a legislative veto-proof majority but maintained a 32-18 Senate majority. Democrats needed to gain one Senate seat or two House seats to break the Republican legislative veto-proof majority. Republicans needed to lose no Senate seats and fewer than two House seats to maintain the Republican legislative veto-proof majority.
The Montana State Senate was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
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| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 16 | 18 | |
| Republican Party | 34 | 32 | |
| Total | 50 | 50 | |
Candidates
General election
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| District 30 |
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| District 45 |
Kelley Durbin-Williams (Independent) |
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Primary
Montana State Senate primary 2024 |
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| District 5 |
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| District 7 |
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| District 13 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 15 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 16 |
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| District 17 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 20 |
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| District 21 |
Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 24 |
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| District 26 |
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| District 27 |
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| District 30 |
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| District 33 |
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| District 35 |
The Democratic primary was canceled. |
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| District 36 |
Did not make the ballot: |
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| District 37 |
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Voting information
- See also: Voting in Montana
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections. The average number of incumbents defeated in general elections from 2010 to 2022 was 0.7.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
One incumbent lost in a primary. This was the fourth election cycle in a row where one incumbent lost a primary.
| Name | Party | Office |
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| Chris Friedel | Senate District 27 |
Retiring incumbents
Seventeen incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] This was the highest number of retirements since Ballotpedia began tracking competitiveness statistics in 2010. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Montana. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Montana in 2024. Information below was calculated on May 31, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Montana had 60 contested state legislative primaries in 2024, a new high and an increase of 36% from the preceding cycle.
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Although this district was not on the ballot in 2024, because of the staggered terms in the Senate, its incumbent was eligible to run for re-election. For information, see this article by Daily Montanan.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Montana Secretary of State, "Candidates information," accessed April 28, 2025
- ↑ Montana Code Annotated 2023, "Title 13, Chapter 10, Section 201," accessed April 28, 2025
- ↑ Montana Code Annotated 2023, "Title 13, Chapter 10, Section 202," accessed April 28, 2025
- ↑ Montana Secretary of State, "Information for Independent, Minor Party and Indigent Candidates," accessed January 7, 2014
- ↑ Montana Code Annotated 2023, "Title 13, Chapter 10, Section 501," accessed April 28, 2025
- ↑ Montana Code Annotated 2023, "Title 13, Chapter 10, Section 502," accessed April 28, 2025
- ↑ Montana Secretary of State, "Information for Write-in Candidates," accessed April 27, 2025
- ↑ Montana Legislative Services, "Constitution of Montana," accessed March 6, 2014 (Referenced Art. V, Sec. 4)
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Montana State Legislature, "Montana Code Annotated 2021, 5-2-102. Term of office," accessed November 4, 2021
