SJ Howell
2025 - Present
2027
0
SJ Howell (Democratic Party) is a member of the Montana House of Representatives, representing District 100. Howell assumed office on January 6, 2025. Howell's current term ends on January 4, 2027.
Howell (Democratic Party) ran for re-election to the Montana House of Representatives to represent District 100. Howell won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
SJ Howell was born in Billings, Montana, and lives in Missoula. Howell earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Montana. Howell's career experience includes working as the executive director of Montana Women Vote, a statewide nonprofit.[1]
Sponsored legislation
The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.
Committee assignments
Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at:[email protected].
2023-2024
Howell was assigned to the following committees:
Elections
2024
See also: Montana House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Montana House of Representatives District 100
Incumbent SJ Howell defeated Christopher Paul Buckles in the general election for Montana House of Representatives District 100 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | SJ Howell (D) | 77.7 | 4,440 |
 | Christopher Paul Buckles (R) | 22.3 | 1,274 | |
| Total votes: 5,714 | |||
 = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Montana House of Representatives District 100
Incumbent SJ Howell defeated Tim Garrison in the Democratic primary for Montana House of Representatives District 100 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | SJ Howell | 72.1 | 1,230 |
| Tim Garrison | 27.9 | 477 | ||
| Total votes: 1,707 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Montana House of Representatives District 100
Christopher Paul Buckles advanced from the Republican primary for Montana House of Representatives District 100 on June 4, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Christopher Paul Buckles | 100.0 | 353 |
| Total votes: 353 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Howell in this election.
2022
See also: Montana House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Montana House of Representatives District 95
SJ Howell defeated Lauren Subith and J.C. Windmueller in the general election for Montana House of Representatives District 95 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | SJ Howell (D) | 75.0 | 3,117 |
| Lauren Subith (R) | 21.8 | 905 | ||
| J.C. Windmueller (L) | 3.3 | 136 | ||
| Total votes: 4,158 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Montana House of Representatives District 95
SJ Howell advanced from the Democratic primary for Montana House of Representatives District 95 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | SJ Howell | 100.0 | 1,460 |
| Total votes: 1,460 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Montana House of Representatives District 95
Lauren Subith advanced from the Republican primary for Montana House of Representatives District 95 on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Lauren Subith | 100.0 | 388 | |
| Total votes: 388 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Libertarian primary election
The Libertarian primary election was canceled. J.C. Windmueller advanced from the Libertarian primary for Montana House of Representatives District 95.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
SJ Howell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
SJ Howell did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
Scorecards
A scorecard evaluates a legislator’s voting record. Its purpose is to inform voters about the legislator’s political positions. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. For example, an advocacy group’s scorecard may assess a legislator’s voting record on one issue while a state newspaper’s scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety.
Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Some states have a limited number of available scorecards or scorecards produced only by select groups. It is Ballotpedia’s goal to incorporate all available scorecards regardless of ideology or number.
Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. To contribute to the list of Montana scorecards, email suggestions to [email protected].
2024
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2024, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2024, the Montana State Legislature was not in session. |
2023
| To view all the scorecards we found for this legislator in 2023, click [show]. |
|---|
|
In 2023, the Montana State Legislature was in session from January 2 to May 2.
|
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by - |
Montana House of Representatives District 100 2025-Present |
Succeeded by - |
| Preceded by Danny Tenenbaum (D) |
Montana House of Representatives District 95 2023-2025 |
Succeeded by - |
