# Dave Bedey

Dave Bedey is a Republican member of the Montana House for district 86.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana House, district 86
- Serving since: 2019-01-07
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/8583c5f0-fc55-4f5b-9664-19d44f7f25b3

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/8583c5f0-fc55-4f5b-9664-19d44f7f25b3 (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

Bedey voted against the majority of Montana House Republicans 306 times; party unity 69%, in the bottom tenth of the Montana House (average 89%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.12 (standard error 0.01), from 252 donors and 897 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 14% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 99.9% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 69% (89%). 306 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 2 bills: 2 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 732: Establish prompt cost report reimbursement act (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB732/
- HB 294: Revise laws relating to the adult basic education fund and its distribution. (in committee, 2025-02-25) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB294/
- HB 462: Encourage academic excellence through high-quality instructional materials (passed both chambers, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB462/
- HB 317: Revise laws regarding Idaho college of osteopathic medicine program (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB317/
- HB 449: Eliminate statutory reference to the adult basic education fund and its distribution (became law, 2025-05-05) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB449/
- HB 573: Revise transformational learning laws to create a phase II grant program (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB573/
- HB 153: Revise laws related to the school funding interim commission. (became law, 2025-05-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB153/
- HB 125: Revise laws related to the conduct of school district elections (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB125/
- HB 156: Revise education funding laws by replacing school district BASE levies with countywide BASE levies (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB156/
- HB 250: Generally revise education laws related to out-of-district attendance. (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB250/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $70.2K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 84% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/5145
- Campaign site: https://www.davidbedey.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.bedey.1
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidBedeyHD86/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/8583c5f0-fc55-4f5b-9664-19d44f7f25b3