2024 Montana gubernatorial election

The 2024 Montana gubernatorial election was 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. Incumbent Republican Party|Republican] governor Greg Gianforte won re-election to a second term, defeating Democratic Party|Democratic] nominee Ryan Busse. Gianforte won by a 20% margin, which was larger than his 13% margin in 2020.
Though Montana has backed Republicans 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. This was the first gubernatorial election since 1996 that a Republican was re-elected governor of Montana. This was also the largest margin of victory in a gubernatorial election since Brian Schweitzer's 33-point re-election victory in 2008, and the largest for a Republican since Mark Racicot's aforementioned 58-point landslide re-election in 1996.