Butte-Silver Bow, MT · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Silver Bow County, Montana. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Butte-Silver Bow, MT, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Butte-Silver Bow, MT
Year
Total registered
2016
21,950
2018
22,764
2020
23,251
2022
23,280
2024
23,375
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+159 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +1,865 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Butte-Silver Bow, MT in Butte-Silver Bow, MT: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+140
2012
+37
2013
−41
2014
+121
2015
−160
2016
−56
2017
+87
2018
−47
2019
+181
2021
+433
2022
+448
2023
+470
2024
+93
2025
+159
Butte-Silver Bow is a rare blue enclave in rural Montana, its consolidated city-county government and strong union roots producing Democratic margins that have outlasted the party's broader collapse across the state's working-class interior.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.2 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 20.2 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 7.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.0 points.
A population of 35,785, a 89% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,754 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Plattsburgh, NY and Baraboo, WI.
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How did Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana vote in 2024?
In 2024, Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana voted Democratic by 7.0 points (D+7.0), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 18,226 votes cast, 9,386 went Democratic and 8,110 went Republican.
When did Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana voted Republican was 1956.
How many people live in Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana?
Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana has a population of 35,785 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana?
Median household income in Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana is $61,754 — below the national median of $80,734. The Montana state median is $72,509.
What is the political history of Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Butte-Silver Bow, MT, Montana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 29 went Democratic and 3 went Republican.
