Montana ousted the last standing statewide Democrat in the 2024 election, marking the first time the Big Sky State will see all Republican leadership in congress in 100 years.

Republican Matt Regier of Kalispell, who was House speaker in 2023, will be Senate president this session. Brandon Ler, a Republican from Savage, will be speaker in 2025.

With Roe overturned, abortion rights advocates in Montana pushed to enshrine the right within the state constitution.

The general election results mark the first time in 113 years that Montana has been entirely represented by Republicans at the federal level.

Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke won a second term representing Montana's 1st Congressional District, defeating Democrat Monica Tranel on Tuesday night.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte and U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke are favorites to win reelection against Democratic challengers as they seek to continue Republican dominance in the Big Sky state.

Tim Sheehy won Montana's Senate race on Wednesday, unseating the state's Democratic incumbent, Sen. Jon Tester, and flipping the seat Republican. Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL new to politics, took home a victory with 53% of the vote to Tester's 45.

The Republican incumbent fended off a challenge from Ryan Busse. Democrats held the Montana governorship for 16 years, until Mr. Gianforte’s first election in 2020.

Republican Tim Sheehy has flipped the closely watched U.S. Senate seat in Montana, the Associated Press projects, defeating Democrat and three-term incumbent Jon Tester. With 85 percent of votes counted, Sheehy led 52.9 percent to 45.4 percent, according to the AP, which called the race for the Trump-supporting Navy SEAL at 6:26 a.m. ET.

Republican Tim Sheehy shaved Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s margins in Montana’s populous counties and ran up his lead in the state’s more rural regions.

November 12 marked the first day that over 30% Stillwater Mine employees were to be laid off. Montana Department of Labor and Industry held a rapid response event for those laid off employees.

The state was one of 10 that voted on abortion-related ballot measures in the 2024 election. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the landmark Dobbs decision two years ago, a growing number of states have responded by passing their own laws codifying the right to abortion.