# Julie Darling

Julie Darling is a Republican member of the Montana House for district 84.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana House, district 84
- Serving since: 2019-01-07
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/7f228ad4-2fec-4ec3-8ae9-18cef8e8969a

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/7f228ad4-2fec-4ec3-8ae9-18cef8e8969a (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

Darling voted against the majority of Montana House Republicans 348 times; party unity 73%, in the bottom tenth of the Montana House (average 89%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.17 (standard error 0.01), from 103 donors and 897 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 22% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 99.9% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 73% (89%). 348 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 5 bills: 5 reached committee, 4 passed one chamber, 4 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 0. 100.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Montana House 90.0%; rank 1 of 2).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HJ 48: Interim study on moving the date of the primary election (passed both chambers, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HJ48/
- HJ 30: Study resolution on incentivizing housing density and affordability (passed both chambers, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HJ30/
- HB 767: Revise county predator control laws to include goats (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB767/
- HB 845: Increase IRC 529 education savings income tax deduction (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB845/
- HB 488: Allowing a disabled voter to electronically return a ballot (in committee, 2025-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB488/
- HB 455: Revise election laws related to COPP deadlines for municipal candidates (became law, 2025-05-05) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB455/
- HB 193: Require signature for voter registration cancellation (became law, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB193/
- HB 637: Provide for medical aid in dying (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB637/
- HB 561: Repeal county licensing of itinerant vendors (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB561/
- HB 632: Revise compensation of members of certain boards (became law, 2025-05-05) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB632/

## Campaign money (2024 cycle)

Itemized receipts $25.5K (State House Republicans median $10.7K). 95% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/5129
- Campaign site: https://julieformontana.comhttps://julieformontana.com
- X: https://x.com/JulesJd2
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JulieforHouse70
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julie.darlingdooling
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWLeZifvsrtikMO-jVzFB3Q

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/7f228ad4-2fec-4ec3-8ae9-18cef8e8969a