 Democrats hold one of the state's two U.S. Senate seats with Jon Tester, as well as the governorship with Steve Bullock.The lone congressional district has been Republican since 1996 and in 2014 Steve Daines won one of the state's U.S. Senate seats for the GOP.The Legislative branch had split party control between the house and senate most years between 2004 and 2010, when the mid-term elections returned both branches to Republican control.