# Denise Joy

Denise Joy is a Democratic member of the Montana House for district 46.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Montana House, district 46
- Serving since: 2024-12-07
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/d0749550-4529-4d4b-8278-41e6a1a8da42

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d0749550-4529-4d4b-8278-41e6a1a8da42 (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

Joy has served since 2024.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.56 (standard error 0.04), from 44 donors and 299 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 59% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 99.8% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 95.5% (89%). 111 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

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

Recent sponsored bills:

- HJ 31: Joint resolution honoring educational support professionals (passed both chambers, 2025-05-06) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HJ31/
- HB 812: Generally revise unemployment laws relating to non-professional employees of educational institutions (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB812/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $12.9K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 89% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://legislators.legmt.gov/#/legislator/304
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeniseJoy4Billings/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d0749550-4529-4d4b-8278-41e6a1a8da42