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2010 United States House of Representatives election in Montana Montana presidential no 2008 United States House of Representatives election in Montana 2008 2012 United States House of Representatives election in Montana 2012 November 2, 2010 File:Denny Rehberg, official portrait, 111th Congress.jpg 150x150px Denny Rehberg Republican Party (United States) 217,696 60.41% 3x4.svg Dennis McDonald Democratic Party (United States) 121,954 33.84% 3x4.svg Mike Fellows Libertarian Party (United States) 20,691 5.74% 2010 United States House of Representatives election in Montana results map by county.svg County resultsRehberg: #ffb2b2 40–50% #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% #d72f30 70–80% #c21b18 80–90%McDonald: #7996e2 50–60% U.S. Representative Denny Rehberg Republican Party (United States) Denny Rehberg Republican Party (United States)
thumb|Montana's 1st congressional district
The 2010 congressional elections in Montana was held on November 2, 2010, and determined who would represent the state of Montana in the United States House of Representatives. Montana has one seat in the House, apportioned according to the 2000 United States census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; the elected will serve in the 112th Congress from January 3, 2011, until January 3, 2013.
Democratic primary
Candidates
Dennis McDonald, former chairman of the Montana Democratic Party
Tyler Gernant, attorney
Melinda Gopher, Native American activist
Sam Rankin
Results
Democratic Party primary resultshttp://sos.mt.gov/Elections/Archives/2010s/2010/2010_Primary_Official_Statewide_Canvass.pdf Statewide and State District Primary Canvass June 08, 2010 Montana Secretary of State 2011-06-19 2011-09-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20110904130750/http://sos.mt.gov/elections/Archives/2010s/2010/2010_Primary_Official_Statewide_Canvass.pdf dead
Dennis McDonald Democratic Party (United States) 24,014 38.42
Tyler Gernant Democratic Party (United States) 15,177 24.28
Melinda Gopher Democratic Party (United States) 13,170 21.07
Sam Rankin Democratic Party (United States) 10,138 16.22
62,499 100.00
Republican primary
Candidates
Denny Rehberg, incumbent U.S. Congressman
Mark T. French, Clark Fork Valley Hospital scientist
A. J. Otjen, Montana State University Billings professor
Results
Republican Party primary results
Denny Rehberg (inc.) Republican Party (United States) 96,796 74.69
Mark T. French Republican Party (United States) 25,344 19.56
A. J. Otjen Republican Party (United States) 7,461 5.76
129,601 100.00
General election
Predictions
SourceRankingAs of The Cook Political Reporthttp://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house/competitive_2010-11-01_12-12-36.php The Cook Political Report – Charts – 2010 House Competitive Races The Cook Political Report November 1, 2010 November 1, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101104002959/http://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house/competitive_2010-11-01_12-12-36.php November 4, 2010 dead mdy-all Safe R November 1, 2010 RothenbergRothenberg Political Report http://www.rothenbergpoliticalreport.com/ratings/house House Ratings Rothenbergpoliticalreport.com November 1, 2010 November 1, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101101202718/http://rothenbergpoliticalreport.com/ratings/house November 1, 2010Safe R November 1, 2010 Sabato's Crystal BallCrystal Ball, 2010 11 01 us onSafe R November 1, 2010RCPRealClearPolitics, 2010 11 01 us onSafe R November 1, 2010CQ Politicshttp://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=ratings-house 2010 House Ratings Chart CQ Politics November 1, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101028234534/http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=ratings-house October 28, 2010Safe ROctober 28, 2010New York TimesHouse Race Ratings http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house nytimes.com The New York Times 9 October 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20101107095111/http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/house 7 November 2010Safe R November 1, 2010FiveThirtyEightSafe R November 1, 2010
Results
Montana At-large congressional district election, 2010Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Clerk of the United States House of Representatives Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010 https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2010election.pdf 28
Republican Party (United States)
Denny Rehberg (inc.)
217,696
60.41
Democratic Party (United States)
Dennis McDonald
121,954
33.84
Libertarian Party (United States)
Mike Fellows
20,691
5.74
360,341
100.00
Republican Party (United States)
County results
Sourcehttps://electionresults.mt.gov/ResultsList.aspx?eid=2 2010 General Election - November 2, 2010 electionresults.mt.gov 22 September 2022
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! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Denny RehbergRepublican
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Dennis McDonaldDemocratic
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Mike FellowsLibertarian
! style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Margin
! style="text-align:center;"| Total
|-
! align=center | County
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| Votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| Votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| Votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| Votes
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| %
! style="text-align:center;" data-sort-type="number"| Votes
|-
| align=center|Beaverhead||2,716||72.82%||840||22.52%||174||4.66%||984||26.38%||3,730
|-
| align=center|Big Horn||1,600||40.73%||2,152||54.79%||176||4.48%||552||14.05%||3,928
|-
| align=center|Blaine||1,165||63.77%||613||33.55%||49||2.68%||552||30.21%||1,827
|-
| align=center|Broadwater||1,895||73.25%||551||21.30%||141||5.45%||1,344||51.95%||2,587
|-
| align=center|Carbon||2,837||58.87%||1,667||34.59%||315||6.54%||1,170||24.28%||4,819
|-
| align=center|Carter||613||89.49%||54||7.88%||18||2.63%||559||81.61%||685
|-
| align=center|Cascade||16,241||62.05%||8,867||33.88%||1,064||4.07%||7,374||28.18%||26,172
|-
| align=center|Chouteau||1,703||73.98%||509||22.11%||90||3.91%||1,194||51.87%||2,302
|-
| align=center|Custer||2,699||66.54%||1,163||28.67%||194||4.78%||1,536||37.87%||4,056
|-
| align=center|Daniels||629||70.99%||202||22.80%||55||6.21%||427||48.19%||886
|-
| align=center|Dawson||2,459||67.83%||1,007||27.78%||159||4.39%||1,452||40.06%||3,625|-
| align=center|Deer Lodge||1,347||40.13%||1,828||54.45%||182||5.42%||481||14.33%||3,357|-
| align=center|Fallon||864||78.76%||202||18.41%||31||2.83%||662||60.35%||1,097|-
| align=center|Fergus||3,795||73.50%||1,130||21.89%||238||4.61%||2,665||51.62%||5,163|-
| align=center|Flathead||21,153||67.68%||8,127||26.00%||1,975||6.32%||13,026||41.68||31,255|-
| align=center|Gallatin||18,221||58.56%||11,125||35.75%||1,769||5.69%||7,096||22.81%||31,115|-
| align=center|Garfield||569||84.05%||75||11.08%||33||4.87%||494||72.97%||677|-
| align=center|Glacier||1,316||49.46%||1,246||46.82%||99||3.72%||70||2.63%||2,661|-
| align=center|Golden Valley||278||68.64%||108||26.67%||19||4.69%||170||41.98%||405|-
| align=center|Granite||985||68.45%||348||24.18%||106||7.37%||637||44.27%||1,439|-
| align=center|Hill||3,142||60.70%||1,787||34.52%||247||4.77%||1,355||26.18%||5,176|-
| align=center|Jefferson||3,430||65.25%||1,529||29.09%||298||5.67%||1,901||36.16%||5,257|-
| align=center|Judith Basin||794||75.05%||229||21.64%||35||3.31%||565||53.40%||1,058|-
| align=center|Lake||6,014||58.66%||3,517||34.31%||721||7.03%||2,497||24.36%||10,252|-
| align=center|Lewis and Clark||14,221||56.54%||9,684||38.50%||1,246||4.95%||4,537||18.04%||25,151|-
| align=center|Liberty||706||76.81%||178||19.28%||39||4.22%||528||57.20%||923|-
| align=center|Lincoln||4,926||69.16%||1,688||23.70%||509||7.15%||3,238||45.46%||7,123|-
| align=center|Madison||2,541||70.04%||847||23.35%||240||6.62%||1,694||46.69%||3,628|-
| align=center|McCone||631||71.62%||220||24.97%||30||3.41%||411||46.65%||881|-
| align=center|Meagher||610||74.66%||152||18.60%||55||6.73%||458||56.06%||817|-
| align=center|Mineral||1,135||62.67%||530||29.27%||146||8.06%||605||33.41%||1,811|-
| align=center|Missoula||17,789||47.14%||17,637||46.73%||2,314||6.13%||152||0.40%||37,740|-
| align=center|Musselshell||1,356||72.40%||385||20.56%||132||7.05%||971||51.84%||1,873|-
| align=center|Park||4,148||60.28%||2,355||34.22%||378||5.49%||1,793||26.06%||6,881|-
| align=center|Petroleum||194||78.23%||40||16.13%||14||5.65%||154||62.10%||248|-
| align=center|Phillips||1,490||80.76%||274||14.85%||81||4.39%||1,216||65.91%||1,845|-
| align=center|Pondera||1,513||72.22%||516||24.63%||66||3.15%||997||47.59%||2,095|-
| align=center|Powder River||708||80.18%||139||15.74%||36||4.08%||569||64.44%||883|-
| align=center|Powell||1,513||68.90%||538||24.50%||145||6.60%||975||44.40%||2,196|-
| align=center|Prairie||434||71.93%||138||22.89%||31||5.14%||296||49.09%||603|-
| align=center|Ravalli||11,506||65.07%||4,887||27.64%||1,290||7.30%||6,619||37.43%||17,683|-
| align=center|Richland||2,767||74.52%||791||21.30%||155||4.17%||1,976||53.22%||3,713|-
| align=center|Roosevelt||1,559||54.30%||1,211||42.18%||101||3.52%||338||11.77%||2,871|-
| align=center|Rosebud||1,507||56.76%||990||37.29%||158||5.95%||517||19.47%||2,655|-
| align=center|Sanders||3,386||65.99%||1,324||25.80%||421||8.21%||2,062||40.19%||5,131|-
| align=center|Sheridan||1,052||63.72%||523||31.68%||76||4.60%||529||32.04%||1,651|-
| align=center|Silver Bow||5,133||43.71%||6,044||51.47%||586||4.99%||911||7.76%||11,743|-
| align=center|Stillwater||2,549||68.01%||984||26.25%||215||5.74%||1,565||41.76%||3,748|-
| align=center|Sweet Grass||1,250||72.55%||394||22.87%||79||4.59%||856||49.68%||1,723|-
| align=center|Teton||1,932||70.80%||654||23.96%||143||5.24%||1,278||46.83%||2,729|-
| align=center|Toole||1,293||73.97%||366||20.94%||89||5.09%||927||53.03%||1,748|-
| align=center|Treasure||272||70.83%||93||24.22%||19||4.95%||179||46.61%||384|-
| align=center|Valley||2,300||68.23%||944||28.00%||127||3.77%||1,356||40.23%||3,371|-
| align=center|Wheatland||713||71.09%||250||24.93%||40||3.99%||463||46.16%||1,003|-
| align=center|Wibaux||349||72.56%||110||22.87%||22||4.57%||239||49.69%||481|-
| align=center|Yellowstone||29,768||57.82%||18,192||35.34%||3,520||6.84%||11,576||22.49%||51,480'''
|}
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Glacier (largest city: Cut Bank)
See also
2010 Montana elections
References
30em
External links
Elections at the Montana Secretary of State
U.S. Congress candidates for Montana at Project Vote Smart
Montana U.S. House from OurCampaigns.com
Campaign contributions for U.S. Congressional races in Montana from OpenSecrets
2010 Montana General Election graph of multiple polls from Pollster.comHouse - Montana from the Cook Political Report''
2008 elections United States House elections in Montana2010 2012 elections
House of Representatives
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