Butte-Bozeman · how this place’s counties split between candidates 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 there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Butte-Bozeman, 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-Bozeman
Year
Total registered
2016
127,666
2018
133,637
2020
144,665
2022
147,477
2024
156,793
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,278 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +31,641 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Butte-Bozeman in Butte-Bozeman: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+1,235
2012
+709
2013
+1,289
2014
+1,957
2015
+2,617
2016
+3,335
2017
+3,460
2018
+2,889
2019
+2,484
2021
+4,609
2022
+2,397
2023
+2,052
2024
+1,330
2025
+1,278
Bozeman's rapid in-migration of college-educated professionals has shifted Gallatin County's margins noticeably leftward, while Butte's working-class, union-rooted electorate maintains a distinct Democratic lean unusual for rural Montana.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 77.0 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 22.9 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 5.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 5.7 points.
A population of 208,219, a 88% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,313 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Missoula and Helena.
Akashic
Political twins — media markets
The media markets whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
Compare two places, side by side
Twelve curated comparisons line up election history, demographics, and the divergence story for two places at a glance. Browse all comparisons →
Cite this page
All citations released under CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Akashic Intelligence.
Butte-Bozeman, Montana. Akashic. https://akashic.app/dma/754/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.
License: CC BY 4.0
Embed this page
A live widget for your site — no API key, attribution built in, CC BY 4.0. All widgets & sizes →
In 2024, Butte-Bozeman, Montana voted Republican by 5.7 points (R+5.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 116,821 votes cast, 53,158 went Democratic and 59,817 went Republican.
When did Butte-Bozeman, Montana last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Butte-Bozeman, Montana voted Democratic was 2008.
How many people live in Butte-Bozeman, Montana?
Butte-Bozeman, Montana has a population of 208,219 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Butte-Bozeman, Montana?
Median household income in Butte-Bozeman, Montana is $83,313 — above the national median of $80,734. The Montana state median is $72,509.
What is the political history of Butte-Bozeman, Montana?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Butte-Bozeman, Montana from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 17 went Democratic and 17 went Republican.
