Deer Lodge County candidates, 2026
6 candidacies in the 2026 Montana election cycle list Deer Lodge County as the candidate's residence.
Candidates who live in Deer Lodge County (2026)
| Candidate | Office sought | Party | Own document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Riley | County Commissioner | Not recorded | Yes |
| Edward Beaudette | County Commissioner | Non-Partisan | Not yet |
| John Fitzpatrick - Legislator | House District No. 76 | Republican | Yes |
| Kenneth Walund | Justice of the Peace | Non-Partisan | Yes |
| Scott & Melani DeMarois | House District No. 71 | Democratic | Yes |
| jared Otto | County Commissioner | Independent | Yes |
A candidate marked "Not yet" has no document of their own in this corpus. The records filed under their name are not yet confirmed as one complete profile. A page built from part of the records would understate the career and the money, so none is published until the profile is complete. The absence of a page is not a finding that the candidate raised or spent nothing.
Races held in Deer Lodge County (2026)
These county, school and city offices are elected within Deer Lodge County:
- County Commissioner
- Justice of the Peace
This list is incomplete, and the gap is in the source record. The county above is the county each candidate LIVES in. A legislative district is not a county and does not sit inside one, and CERS holds no mapping from a district to the counties it covers. So this record cannot list the legislative races that Deer Lodge County votes in. Do not read the residence list above as the answer to that question.