# Jonathan Windy Boy

Jonathan Windy Boy is a Democratic member of the Montana Senate for district 16.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Montana Senate, district 16
- Serving since: 2017-01-02
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/aad657b3-2d8f-48cf-99b3-650ccddf258b

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/aad657b3-2d8f-48cf-99b3-650ccddf258b (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 Boy’s itemized money in the 2024 cycle came from Montana, in the top tenth of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.52 (standard error 0.02), from 1 donors and 887 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 71% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,812 roll calls. Attendance 97.8% (Montana Senate 98.9%). Party unity 91.1% (85%). 262 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

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

Recent sponsored bills:

- SJ 29: Interim study resolution on coordinating efforts between OPI and DPHHS in addressing the impacts on children of prenatal exposure to meth and fentanyl (passed both chambers, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SJ29/
- SJ 24: Joint resolution supporting the national popular vote initiative (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SJ24/
- SB 526: Establish the community health aide provider education grant program (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB526/
- SB 170: Eliminate termination date of community health aide program (became law, 2025-04-04) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB170/
- SB 303: Require agency reporting on financial assistance to tribes (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB303/
- SB 181: Generally revise Indian education for all laws (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB181/
- SB 220: Generally revise election laws and procedures (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB220/
- SB 182: Generally revise MT Indian language preservation program (became law, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB182/
- SB 147: Generally revise Montana Indian child welfare laws (became law, 2025-05-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB147/
- SB 105: Generally revise election laws related to electioneering at polling locations (became law, 2025-05-05) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB105/

## Campaign money (2024 cycle)

Itemized receipts $2,362 (State Senate Democrats median $16.2K). 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/7612
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jonathanwindyboy3596
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/state-rep-jonathan-windy-boy-3444ab5b/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/aad657b3-2d8f-48cf-99b3-650ccddf258b