Montana House Democrat 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, which provides ESAs for disabled students that cover private school tuition among other approved expenses. "Yes" votes were in support of the bill and coded "support" to private school choice, and "No" votes were opposed to the bill and 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.