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Garfield County, Montana

2026 election results. Kurt Alme (R) got 84% of the U.S. Senate vote in Garfield County. Below are also 8 local contests from the state's own results.

2026 results in Garfield County

U.S. Senate

Kurt Alme
84.1%549
Seth Bodnar
9.8%64
Alani Bankhead
3.8%25
Kyle Austin
2.3%15
100% counted

Statewide: Kurt Alme wins. Called.

U.S. House: Montana 2nd District

Troy Downing
88.6%574
Brian Miller
6.0%39
Michael Eisenhauer
3.5%23
Patrick McCracken
1.9%12
100% counted

Whole district: Troy Downing wins. Called.

The leader in Garfield 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 4, 12:30 AM.

8 local contests in Garfield County

County offices, school boards, local measures and judges on Garfield 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 R57391.5%
Angeline Cheek D538.5%

Jeff Pattison ahead in Garfield 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 2

CandidateVotesShare
Jerry Collins407100.0%

Jerry Collins is unopposed.

County Sheriff/coroner

CandidateVotesShare
Joe Tate49578.0%
Tyler Rogge14022.0%

Joe Tate ahead in Garfield County.

County Attorney

CandidateVotesShare
Adam L. Forslund301100.0%

Adam L. Forslund is unopposed.

County Treasurer/clerk of Court

CandidateVotesShare
Jennifer Crawford576100.0%

Jennifer Crawford is unopposed.

Schools

County Superintendent of Schools

CandidateVotesShare
Heather Gibson568100.0%

Heather Gibson is unopposed.

Local measures

County Clerk and Recorder/election Administrator

CandidateVotesShare
Charlie Saylor594100.0%

Charlie Saylor is unopposed.

Judges

County Justice of the Peace

CandidateVotesShare
Kelly Pierson603100.0%

Kelly Pierson is unopposed.

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

Compared with 2024

RaceMargin2024 presidentShift
MT-02R +87.3R +90.2D +2.9

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 Garfield County has voted for president

YearDemocratShareRepublicanShareMarginVotes
2024Kamala Harris4.9%Donald Trump94.5%R +89.6800
2020Joe Biden5.0%Donald Trump94.0%R +88.9813
2016Hillary Clinton4.7%Donald Trump90.9%R +86.2718
2012Barack Obama9.4%Mitt Romney88.9%R +79.4700
2008Barack Obama15.1%John McCain82.3%R +67.1727
2004John Kerry7.9%George W. Bush90.1%R +82.1655
2000Al Gore8.2%George W. Bush87.5%R +79.3744

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 R +10.3.

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.