With more than than 612,000 ballots bandage and 81% turnout, this year'southward election ranked amongst the most-voted in Montana history. With the country'due south vote tallies officially certified by the Montana Board of Canvassers Nov. 30, here's how the vote broke down:

The state as a whole went for Republican candidates up and downward the election, with voters delivering the Montana GOP the nearly sweeping victory a single political party has received in the state in decades.

In the race for governor, more than 328,000 Montanans cast ballots for Republican candidate Greg Gianforte, handing him the governor'southward office 54% to 42%. President Donald Trump won the state by a 99,000-vote margin, receiving most 344,000 votes. Incumbent U.S. Sen. Steve Daines won more than 333,000 votes to earn re-election over a challenge from term-limited Autonomous Gov. Steve Bullock.

Even so, hundreds of thousands of Montanans voted for Bullock and other Democratic candidates, including more than than 244,000 who voted for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and more than 250,000 who voted for the Democratic candidate for governor, Mike Cooney.

Upwards and down the ballot, Democrats won majorities in precincts in and effectually some of Montana's urban centers: Missoula, Anaconda, Butte, Whitefish, Helena, Bozeman, Livingston, Ruby-red Gild and parts of Billings. Democrats also came out alee in rural precincts spanning the unincorporated resort town of Large Heaven and tribal communities, winning swaths of the Flathead, Blackfeet, Rocky Boy'due south, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations.

Republicans won pretty much the residual of the state, including the urban cadre of Kalispell and near of Montana's rural stretches, with especially strong showings across eastern Montana. GOP victories in the governor and presidential contests included fundamental Great Falls precincts that accept tilted toward Democrats in the past.

Senate candidate Bullock did win several of those Great Falls precincts, equally did Democratic superintendent of public instruction candidate Melissa Romano, making the urban center'south urban core one of the few places in the state where plenty voters split their ballots to push some Democrats to precinct-level wins.

How the vote broke downward in Smashing Falls, i of the few parts of the state where enough 2020 voters split their ballots to send some Republicans and some Democrats to precinct-level victories.

Bullock and Cooney also picked up enough votes to win a single precinct in cardinal Hamilton — by just 7 votes in Cooney's example. The rest of Ravalli County, where Hamilton is the county seat, voted red past broad margins.

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Annotation: The preliminary vote count information initially used for this story had at least one error, a precinct in Wheatland County where 0 votes were reported for Gianforte (the governor-elect actually won 290 votes there, according to the county ballot administrator). This story has been updated with final certified precinct-level election results.

Eric Dietrich is a journalist and data designer and the founder of the Long Streets economical reporting project. His reporting focuses broadly on Montana's governance and economic opportunity, with item focus on the land budget and tax policy. He likewise contributes data reporting across the MTFP newsroom. Before joining the MTFP staff in 2019, he worked for the Great Falls Tribune, Bozeman Daily Relate, and Solutions Journalism Network and besides earned an engineering degree from Montana State Academy. Contact Eric at edietrich@montanafreepress.org, 406-465-3386 ext. 2, and follow him on Twitter.