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Blaine County, Montana

2026 election results. Kurt Alme (R) got 44% of the U.S. Senate vote in Blaine County. Below are also 8 local contests from the state's own results.

2026 results in Blaine County

U.S. Senate

Kurt Alme
43.9%979
Seth Bodnar
30.8%687
Alani Bankhead
23.1%514
Kyle Austin
2.2%49
100% counted

Statewide: Kurt Alme wins. Called.

U.S. House: Montana 2nd District

Troy Downing
48.5%1,080
Brian Miller
43.7%972
Michael Eisenhauer
5.8%130
Patrick McCracken
1.9%43
100% counted

Whole district: Troy Downing wins. Called.

The leader in Blaine County is only who has the most votes counted here. Races are won statewide or district-wide, and only the race pages report calls. Last vote update here Nov 9, 4:07 PM.

8 local contests in Blaine County

County offices, school boards, local measures and judges on Blaine County's ballots, from Montana's official results file. Names are as the state prints them. "Ahead" describes the current count; it isn't a race call, and we don't call measures.

County offices

Public Service Commissioner, District 1

CandidateVotesShare
Jeff Pattison R1,10950.2%
Angeline Cheek D1,09849.8%

Jeff Pattison ahead in Blaine County. The contest crosses into 25 other counties; across all of them: Jeff Pattison 50,407 (65.3%), Angeline Cheek 26,741 (34.7%).

County Commissioner District #1

CandidateVotesShare
Curtis Horn D562100.0%

Curtis Horn is unopposed.

Sheriff/coroner

CandidateVotesShare
Chris Adair R1,758100.0%

Chris Adair is unopposed.

County Attorney

CandidateVotesShare
Kelsie Whitney Harwood D1,789100.0%

Kelsie Whitney Harwood is unopposed.

County Treasurer

CandidateVotesShare
Tori Desrosier D1,839100.0%

Tori Desrosier is unopposed.

Schools

County Superintendent of Schools

CandidateVotesShare
Kendall Harwood D1,797100.0%

Kendall Harwood is unopposed.

Local measures

County Clerk and Recorder/assessor/election Administrator

CandidateVotesShare
Pauly B. Miller R1,21854.7%
Savannah Wendeln D1,00845.3%

Pauly B. Miller ahead in Blaine County.

Judges

Justice of the Peace

CandidateVotesShare
Jim L. Doyle1,41967.5%
Monty Valdez68432.5%

Jim L. Doyle ahead in Blaine County.

Montana's official results, these figures first read Nov 13, 6:08 PM. Unofficial until certified.

Compared with 2024

RaceMargin2024 presidentShift
MT-02R +5.3R +6.2D +0.9

Margins compare the Democrat and the Republican only. The 2024 column is the presidential margin in the same places as each race's votes here. Shift is this year's margin minus it, shown once at least 90% of the expected vote is counted. A dash means there's no 2024 figure for those exact places.

How Blaine County has voted for president

YearDemocratShareRepublicanShareMarginVotes
2024Kamala Harris44.6%Donald Trump50.5%R +5.93,020
2020Joe Biden51.0%Donald Trump47.1%D +3.83,117
2016Hillary Clinton44.8%Donald Trump47.2%R +2.52,684
2012Barack Obama56.5%Mitt Romney41.2%D +15.32,859
2008Barack Obama56.5%John McCain37.8%D +18.73,014
2004John Kerry47.0%George W. Bush51.4%R +4.52,768
2000Al Gore45.2%George W. Bush51.1%R +5.92,759

Shares are of all presidential votes, and the margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's. Since 2000, the presidential margin here has moved D +0.1.

Other counties in Montana

Montana results

Sources & scope

Votes for 2026 come from the count this site reads, by county. They're unofficial until Montana certifies them. Past presidential votes are from MEDSL and VEST, via Polling Forecast. Montana's own results, deadlines and offices are on the state page.