Who raised what, from the state’s own filings.

• Angeline Cheek: Her latest regular report in state records covers Aug. 15 to Sept. 25, 2026; no report for Sept. 16 to Oct. 15 was on file on Oct. 24, 2026.

How to read this

Figures come from the campaign finance reports filed with Montana's Commissioner of Political Practices through its Campaign Electronic Reporting System (CERS). Each account uses its latest regular periodic report: Form C-5 for candidates and Form C-6 for ballot issue committees. Each figure is read from the report's cash summary as CERS shows it, and the report's schedules are used for loans, in-kind contributions and checks. For five of the six candidates the report covers Sept. 16 to Oct. 15, 2026 (Dan Wilson's ends Oct. 14) and was due Oct. 20. Angeline Cheek's latest report covers Aug. 15 to Sept. 25, 2026; CERS showed no later regular report for her on Oct. 24. The four ballot issue committee reports cover Aug. 26 to Sept. 25, 2026 and were due Sept. 30. Each figure is for that one reporting period only. It is never a total for the campaign, and periods are not added together. 'Raised' is money received and deposited in the period (the report's line 2) less any cash loans; in-kind contributions are not in it. 'Spent' is money paid out in the period (line 3), including payments on earlier debts, less any loan repayments. 'Cash on hand' is the ending bank balance (line 4). Montana candidate reports keep primary and general election money in separate columns. The candidate figures add the two columns of the same report, and each column is kept in the data file. In 2026 the statewide races are one Montana Supreme Court seat (Justice #4, nonpartisan). Public Service Commission Districts 1 and 5 are also included: they are state offices elected by district. Montana elects no governor or other statewide executive officer in 2026; those offices are next on the ballot in 2028. Candidate names are shown as on the Secretary of State's ballot list; the names as filed in CERS are kept in the data file.

Raised, spent and cash on hand are different measures from the same reports and are never added together. Loans are shown on their own and are not counted as money raised. Periods differ between accounts when committees file on different schedules.

Source: Montana Commissioner of Political Practices (COPP), Campaign Electronic Reporting System (CERS).

What is not here yet

• Angeline Cheek (Public Service Commission District 1): CERS listed no regular report after the one covering Aug. 15 to Sept. 25, 2026 (dates as filed) when checked Oct. 24, 2026, so her figures are older than the other candidates'. The candidate October report was due Oct. 20. Why there is no later report was not asked.
• The ballot issue committees' figures end Sept. 25, 2026. Their next report (Sept. 26 to Oct. 24) is due Oct. 30, 2026. The candidates' next regular report (Oct. 15 to Nov. 15) is due Nov. 20.
• Contribution and expenditure notices filed after the reports used here (Forms C-7 and C-7E, e.g. Amy Eddy's and Dan Wilson's notices dated Oct. 16 to Oct. 23, 2026) are listed in the saved report lists but were not read or used.
• Every figure covers one reporting period. Campaign-to-date totals (every report since each account opened, added together) have not been computed.
• For some reports, the contributions listed one by one in the schedules add up to less than line 2 (money received); each account's measure_note gives the difference. For Amy Eddy the gap ($11,476.29) does not match the report's own figure for contributions under $50 ($12,885.79). The reason was not asked of the Commissioner.
• The Commissioner of Political Practices' website (politicalpractices.mt.gov) failed the secure connection from the workspace (certificate could not be verified). The 2026 reporting calendars were read with WebFetch and not saved. The site's home page could not be opened, so complaints and decisions of the Commissioner involving these candidates or committees are not yet checked.
• Legislative candidates are not included. No bulk download of reports or transactions was found in CERS: its public search offers schedule downloads for one report at a time. Not yet checked with the Commissioner's office.
• Independent expenditures, and spending on the statewide races and measures by independent, incidental or party committees, are not yet checked.
• Only page 1 of the Secretary of State's general and primary candidate lists (100 rows each) was saved; the list's pager would not answer outside a browser. Page 1 holds every federal, Public Service Commission, Supreme Court and district court race; legislative races follow, sorted by district type, and continue on pages 2 and 3.
• CERS often answered a session request with an empty reply right after a new search; scripts/fetch_cers.py retries those requests, and an empty reply is never counted as an empty schedule. One schedule (independent expenditures) is not requested by the report page for candidate reports and was not saved for them.

Gaps in the campaign finance records as of the date checked.