The 2008 United States House of Representatives election in Montana took place on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Voters selected a single representative for the (map), who ran on a statewide ballot. Incumbent Representative Denny Rehberg sought re-election; he was originally elected in 2000 with 52% of the vote. He was formerly a Billings area rancher, state legislator (1984âÂÂ90) and Montana Lieutenant Governor (1991âÂÂ97).
Concurrently, Democrats won all elections for statewide elected offices, including incumbent governor Brian Schweitzer who won a landslide 65.47% of the vote. In other federal races, incumbent senator Max Baucus won a landslide victory in the concurrent senate election against perennial candidate Bob Kelleher; while Barack Obama lost the state in the concurrent presidential election, he lost by a narrow 2.48% margin winning 47.11% of the vote, the highest since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. However, Rehberg bucked the trend and comfortably won re-election with 64.1% of the vote.