# Scott DeMarois

Scott DeMarois is a Democratic member of the Montana House for district 71.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Montana House, district 71
- Serving since: 2025-01-06
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/b4eef5bc-1509-462d-905b-cd0f03ec3981

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b4eef5bc-1509-462d-905b-cd0f03ec3981 (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 DeMarois’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Montana, in the top tenth of State House Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.35 (standard error 0.02), from 22 donors and 300 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 87% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 99.9% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 88% (89%). 142 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 3 bills: 3 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0.

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 511: Provide grant funding for firefighting training facilities (passed both chambers, 2025-06-27) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB511/
- HJ 75: Interim study of the Montana state hospital (in committee, 2025-05-22) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HJ75/
- HB 611: Generally revise salaries for certain elected officials (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB611/
- HB 547: Revise firefighting laws for consolidated city-county governments (passed both chambers, 2025-05-13) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB547/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $7,966 (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://legislators.legmt.gov/#/legislator/163
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Scott-DeMarois-for-House-District-71-61565381145824/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-demarois-86a8bb9/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/b4eef5bc-1509-462d-905b-cd0f03ec3981