# Daniel Zolnikov

Daniel Zolnikov is a Republican member of the Montana Senate for district 22.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana Senate, district 22
- Serving since: 2023-01-02
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/afffd4a2-fd6b-4cc5-8eff-8aa1f696db3a

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/afffd4a2-fd6b-4cc5-8eff-8aa1f696db3a (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

Zolnikov has served since 2023.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.43 (standard error 0.02), from 141 donors and 298 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 61% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,812 roll calls. Attendance 99.0% (Montana Senate 98.9%). Party unity 89% (85%). 258 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 10 bills: 10 reached committee, 9 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 0. 100.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Montana Senate 96.6%; rank 5 of 10).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 96: Confirm governor's appointee for board of oil and gas conservation (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR96/
- SR 100: Confirm governor's appointee for board of oil and gas conservation (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR100/
- SR 98: Confirm governor's appointee for board of oil and gas conservation (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR98/
- SR 95: Confirm governor's appointee for board of oil and gas conservation (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR95/
- SR 97: Confirm governor's appointee for board of oil and gas conservation (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR97/
- SB 561: Revise public service commission membership (in committee, 2025-05-23) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB561/
- SR 59: Confirm governor's appointee for the pacific northwest electric power and conservation planning council (passed one chamber, 2025-04-30) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR59/
- SR 58: Confirm governor's appointee for the pacific northwest electric power and conservation planning council (passed one chamber, 2025-04-24) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SR58/
- SB 409: Generally revise laws related to the department of commerce (became law, 2025-05-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB409/
- SB 553: Generally revise state policy laws (became law, 2025-05-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/SB553/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $33.9K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 93% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://leg.mt.gov/legislator-information/roster/individual/7652
- Campaign site: https://danielzolnikov.com/serving-you
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zolnikov/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/afffd4a2-fd6b-4cc5-8eff-8aa1f696db3a