# Ken Walsh

Ken Walsh is a Republican member of the Montana House for district 69.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana House, district 69
- Serving since: 2021-01-04
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/89cfc24f-851d-46c8-ad39-9cc888a437a5

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/89cfc24f-851d-46c8-ad39-9cc888a437a5 (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

Walsh voted against the majority of Montana House Republicans 351 times; party unity 66%, in the bottom 5% of the Montana House (average 89%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.07 (standard error 0.02), from 228 donors and 591 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 9.2% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 98.9% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 66% (89%). 351 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

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

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 281: Provide statutory appropriation of reinsurance program assessments (became law, 2025-05-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB281/
- HB 434: Revise banking laws relating to interactive teller machines (became law, 2025-04-07) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB434/
- HB 775: Repeal sunset on Water Court actions (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB775/
- HB 680: Generally revise trade and commerce laws (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB680/
- HB 256: Creation of Montana water trust and special revenue accounts (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB256/
- HB 932: Generally revise conservation financing laws (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB932/
- HB 163: Provide for health care preceptor individual income tax credit (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB163/
- HB 886: Provide for water division court, judges (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB886/
- HB 355: Clarifying that easement rights retained when canal or ditch converted to pipeline (became law, 2025-05-14) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB355/
- HB 865: Revise government entity limitations on property tax increases (in committee, 2025-03-29) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB865/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $58.8K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 81% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/6921
- Campaign site: https://www.walsh4montana.com
- X: https://x.com/beaver1954
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ken.walsh.9026
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kenwalshhd69/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ken-walsh-for-hd-69/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/89cfc24f-851d-46c8-ad39-9cc888a437a5