# Linda Reksten

Linda Reksten is a Republican member of the Montana House for district 13.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana House, district 13
- Serving since: 2021-01-04
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/7e2b7b5b-0e72-4dac-ab5d-cc44450aeb95

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/7e2b7b5b-0e72-4dac-ab5d-cc44450aeb95 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Reksten voted against the majority of Montana House Republicans 328 times; party unity 68%, in the bottom tenth of the Montana House (average 89%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.15 (standard error 0.02), from 155 donors and 580 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 19% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 99.7% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 68% (89%). 328 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 1 bills: 1 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 0.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HJ 63: Request interim study on early literacy (in committee, 2025-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HJ63/
- HB 262: Establish state policy on evidence-based reading instruction (in committee, 2025-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB262/
- HB 515: Generally revise laws relating to school facilities consolidating two existing state special revenue accounts (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB515/
- HB 818: Generally revise laws related to funding for school facilities (passed one chamber, 2023-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/HB818/
- HB 377: Create a 250th commission for Montana (became law, 2023-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/HB377/
- HB 321: Generally revise laws related to the coal trust (became law, 2023-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/HB321/
- HB 181: Revise laws related to the superintendent of public instruction (became law, 2023-04-14) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/HB181/
- LC 2234: Create a 250th commission for Montana (introduced, 2023-01-30) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/LC2234/
- LC 1342: Revise laws related to the superintendent of public instruction (introduced, 2023-01-03) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/LC1342/
- LC 1343: Generally revise laws related to the coal trust (introduced, 2023-01-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2023/LC1343/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $34.4K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 66% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/6894
- Campaign site: http://reksten4mt.com
- X: https://x.com/lereksten
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linda.reksten
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-reksten-2478b364/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/7e2b7b5b-0e72-4dac-ab5d-cc44450aeb95