Kurt Alme
Republican
Former U.S. Attorney for Montana and former Montana state budget director
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U.S. Senate · Nov 3, 2026
Open seat. Held by Steve Daines, who is not running.
Open seat: Republican Sen. Steve Daines withdrew from the race minutes before the March filing deadline and endorsed Kurt Alme. Jami Dee Woodman has filed as a write-in candidate, so her name is not printed on the ballot.
Former U.S. Attorney for Montana and former Montana state budget director
Retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and former criminal investigator
Pharmacist, independent pharmacy owner and farmer from Montana's Hi-Line
Former president of the University of Montana and former U.S. Army Green Beret
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RepublicanKurt Alme
Supports directing federal money to rural providers through the Rural Health Transformation Program rather than subsidizing insurers, expanding telehealth, and requiring health care price transparency.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Says universal health care works, citing the military's TRICARE program, and would expand access by cutting paperwork and drug middlemen. Supports the Save America's Rural Hospitals Act, offset by clawing back federal “use-it-or-lose-it” spending she calls wasteful.
LibertarianKyle Austin
Proposes a plan he calls Healthcare 2.0 to overhaul the health system, which he says would offer plans with no annual deductibles and lower premiums without added cost to taxpayers.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Supports an affordable coverage option for every American, $35 monthly caps on insulin and other lifesaving drugs, restoring enhanced ACA subsidies, defending Medicaid expansion, expanding Medicare drug price negotiation and reversing work-requirement rules he says could strip coverage from 30,000 Montanans.
RepublicanKurt Alme
Supports cutting regulations that slow home construction in order to increase the housing supply.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Supports raising the home-sale capital-gains exclusion to $500,000 for single filers and $1 million for couples, tax breaks for builders whose projects are at least 30% affordable units, and the HOPE for Homeownership Act's taxes and fines on hedge funds that buy single-family homes.
LibertarianKyle Austin
Would work to lower interest rates, reduce barriers that raise construction costs, eliminate tariffs on construction supplies, and promote logging and lumber mills in Montana.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
No published position found.
RepublicanKurt Alme
Says Congress holds the power to declare war and should consistently enforce its role, and that presidents must be able to act quickly to protect Americans.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
No published position found.
LibertarianKyle Austin
Supports enforcing the War Powers Resolution, which lets the president act quickly but requires withdrawing troops within 60 days unless Congress authorizes further force.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Opposes the war in Iran and further escalation without a congressional vote, supports a War Powers Resolution vote and Congress reasserting its authority to declare war, and supports diplomacy to end the conflict.
RepublicanKurt Alme
Supports reining in federal deficit spending and balancing the budget, which he says is the way to lower the cost of living.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
No published position found.
LibertarianKyle Austin
Would cut what he calls government overreach and wasteful spending, deregulate businesses and lower taxes for everyone.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
No published position found.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Opposes any sale of public lands or opening them to exploitation, supports protecting corner-crossing access and Montana's stream access law, and supports defending the Antiquities Act and full use of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Opposes any sale or transfer of public land, supports fully funding the Forest Service, BLM and Park Service, active forest management to reduce wildfire risk, and the River Runs Through It Act.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Supports the Women's Health Protection Act to protect abortion access nationwide and a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights, and would confirm judges who would reexamine the Dobbs decision.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Supports writing Roe v. Wade into federal law and protecting access to contraception and IVF.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Would review every tariff country by country, keep those aimed at trade cheating and phase out the rest, and require a vote of Congress before any across-the-board tariff takes effect.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Supports Congress reasserting authority over tariffs and targeted tariffs against countries that cheat on trade, paired with relief for affected producers. Opposes blanket tariffs on allies like Canada and tariffs on potash, fertilizer, lumber and steel.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Supports banning members of Congress, their spouses and dependent children from trading individual stocks, the DISCLOSE Act on dark money, overturning Citizens United, and congressional term limits.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Supports banning stock trading and stock ownership by members of Congress and their spouses and immediate family, overturning Citizens United, and more disclosure of dark money in elections.
RepublicanKurt Alme
Would keep the border secure, support law enforcement, prioritize prosecuting violent criminals and pursue drug trafficking organizations up to the cartels, and would focus on drug prevention and treatment.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
No published position found.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
No published position found.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Supports the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act on fortunes over $50 million, closing the carried-interest break, a higher rate on corporations with more than $1 billion in profits, and lifting the Social Security wage cap. Opposes income tax increases for anyone earning under $400,000.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
No published position found.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
Supports the American Teacher Act to raise starting teacher salaries to $60,000 through federal grants, full federal funding of special education, permanent Secure Rural Schools funding, and opposes federal voucher programs.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
No published position found.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
No published position found.
LibertarianKyle Austin
Says every American should have unrestricted access to bear arms.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
No published position found.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
No published position found.
LibertarianKyle Austin
Would overhaul the U.S. Department of Agriculture, keep farmers and ranchers out of trade wars, offer 0% USDA financing to producers, and help build domestic fertilizer plants.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
No published position found.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
No published position found.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Supports the Ratepayer Protection Act to prevent data center energy costs from being passed to Montana families, public disclosure of data centers' real-time water and energy consumption, and local communities' final say over projects.
RepublicanKurt Alme
No published position found.
DemocraticAlani Bankhead
No published position found.
LibertarianKyle Austin
No published position found.
IndependentSeth Bodnar
Supports operational control of the border with more technology and personnel, enforcing existing immigration laws, cracking down on fentanyl-trafficking cartels, fixing the legal immigration system and giving the northern border the same resources as the southern border.