# John Esp

John Esp is a Republican member of the Montana Senate for district 29.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana Senate, district 29
- Serving since: 2019-01-07
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a936c9c8-0a8d-4bcf-8da0-1a9b9ac80ab2

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a936c9c8-0a8d-4bcf-8da0-1a9b9ac80ab2 (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

100% of Esp’s itemized money in the 2022 cycle came from Montana, in the top tenth of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.40 (standard error 0.02), from 86 donors and 884 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 57% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,812 roll calls. Attendance 98.9% (Montana Senate 98.9%). Party unity 88% (85%). 402 votes against the party majority.

## Campaign money (2022 cycle)

Itemized receipts $18.1K (State Senate Republicans median $34.5K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/5049
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnespforsenate/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.esp.370515

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a936c9c8-0a8d-4bcf-8da0-1a9b9ac80ab2