A crowded campaign looms for House District 75

Since it was redistricted in 2013, Montana’s House District 75 — which encompasses most of Jefferson County — has been reliably red.

Republican Marta Bertoglio won comfortably in each of the last three elections, taking more than two-thirds of votes cast in 2020 and 2024 and running unopposed in 2022. The closest a GOP candidate has come to losing was in 2018, when Greg DeVries garnered just 57.4% of the vote to Democrat Bryher Herak’s 42.6%.

So it’s reasonable to expect Mark Reinschmidt, the Republican appointed last year to fill Bertoglio’s seat after she was named the state’s Commerce director, to coast to victory this year.