# Mike Vinton

Mike Vinton is a Republican member of the Montana House for district 40.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Montana House, district 40
- Serving since: 2025-01-06
- Current term: MT 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/f04a0d34-6c7b-4d78-8215-d430eeff5fee

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/f04a0d34-6c7b-4d78-8215-d430eeff5fee (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 Vinton’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Montana, in the top quarter of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.31 (standard error 0.02), from 71 donors and 297 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 42% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MT 2025–26 session)

2,755 roll calls. Attendance 98.8% (Montana House 99.2%). Party unity 88% (89%). 265 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (MT 2025–26 session)

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

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 916: Revise lodging tax allocation related to property tax relief (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB916/
- HB 704: Generally revise ground water laws (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB704/
- HB 206: Revise electrical contractors presentation of license laws (became law, 2025-05-08) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB206/
- HB 505: Allow Montana housing infrastructure revolving loan fund to retain its interest and income and provide for fund transfers (became law, 2025-05-19) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB505/
- HB 844: Revise the taxation of class eight business equipment (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB844/
- HB 639: Generally revise gambling laws (in committee, 2025-05-20) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB639/
- HB 59: Revise board of water well contractors laws (became law, 2025-05-16) https://openstates.org/mt/bills/2025/HB59/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $13.9K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://legislators.legmt.gov/#/legislator/181

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/f04a0d34-6c7b-4d78-8215-d430eeff5fee