Huson, MT is a small community located in Missoula County with a population of around 200 people. This rural area is governed by local elected officials who serve on the Missoula County Commission. The county commission serves as the legislative body of Missoula County and is responsible for setting policy and making decisions that affect the entire county. Residents of Huson have the opportunity to vote for their representative to the County Commission in each election cycle. Currently, there are two commissioners representing Huson: Commissioner Jean Curtiss and Commissioner Dave Smith. Both have been active members of their community and have served on various local boards including the school board, fire department, and library board. In addition, they have attended public forums and meetings to bring their vision to life for residents of Huson. They both work hard to ensure that all people within their district are represented fairly in decision-making processes at a local level and beyond.
The political climate in Zip 59846 (Huson, MT) is leaning liberal.
Missoula County, MT is strongly liberal. In Missoula County, MT 60.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Missoula county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.6% to 36.8%.
Missoula county voted Democratic in the last five Presidential elections, after voting Republican in 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 59846 (Huson, MT) is leaning liberal.
Huson, Montana is leaning liberal.
Missoula County, Montana is strongly liberal.
Missoula Metro Area is strongly liberal.
Montana is moderately conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Huson, Montana: r d D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 59846 (Huson)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 72 contributions totaling $11,426 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $159 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 21 contributions totaling $8,118 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $387 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)