Montana Senate Republican school choice voting analysis comparing rural to urban/suburban

This bar chart displays votes on HB 393 (2023), which creates the Montana special needs equal opportunity education savings account program and SB 390 (2023), which would have created the Montana equality of educational opportunity education savings account program. "Yes" votes were in support of both bills and are coded "support" to private school choice, and "No" votes were opposed to either of the bills and are coded "opposed."

Legislative districts that contained at least one rural school district were classified as rural, while legislative districts that did not contain any rural school districts were classified as urban/suburban (or not rural). The Census' definition and designation of rural was used to classified school districts.