2024 United States Senate election in Montana
The 2024 United States Senate election in Montana was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Montana. Republican businessman Tim Sheehy won his first term in office, defeating Democratic three-term incumbent Jon Tester. Despite the state's heavy partisan lean in favor of the Republican Party, Tester remained popular among his constituents. Because of this and Montana's historical inclination to ticket-split, the race was considered to be competitive. Early polling showed Tester to be leading or nearly even, but Sheehy later gained an edge. Tester was widely seen as being the most vulnerable incumbent running for re-election, due to Montana's strong Republican lean and the decline of split-ticket voting. Tester, a renowned centrist liberal, was first elected in 2006, when he narrowly defeated incumbent Republican senator Conrad Burns, and was reelected in 2012 and 2018. However, come Election Day in 2024, his vulnerability came to...
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