2024 Montana gubernatorial election

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2024 Montana gubernatorial election

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Nominee Greg Gianforte Ryan Busse Party Republican Democratic Running mate Kristen Juras Raph Graybill
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Incumbent Governor Greg Gianforte Republican

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The 2024 Montana gubernatorial election will be held on November 5, 2024, to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Montana, concurrently with the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections. Primary elections took place on June 4, 2024.^[1] Republican incumbent Governor Greg Gianforte and Democratic businessman Ryan Busse won their parties' respective nominations.^[2]

Though Montana has backed the GOP in every presidential election since 1996, the sparsely-populated Mountain state maintained a Democratic tendency at the state and U.S. Senate levels well through the 2010s. In the 2020 gubernatorial election, Gianforte defeated Democratic nominee Mike Cooney by 12.8%, becoming the first Republican to be elected governor of Montana since Judy Martz in 2000. Gianforte's election flipped two of Montana's last three Democrat-held statewide offices (governor and lieutenant governor) into the GOP camp; currently, the only one occupied by a Democrat is Jon Tester's U.S. Senate seat, which most analysts predict to narrowly flip Republican in a concurrent race.^[3] Gianforte is widely expected to comfortably win re-election in 2024.^[4][5]