The Nov. 4, 2025 local elections are being conducted primarily by mail. It’s now too late to return ballots by mail. Instead, voted ballots need to be dropped off at a county elections office or designated polling place before polls close at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

MISSOULA — Tuesday is election day in Western Montana and there is still time to drop off your ballot. November 4 is a mail-in only election, meaning you cannot vote in person. However, ballots that haven't been mailed in can be dropped off in person until 8 p.m. on Tuesday.

Gallatin County Election Administrator Eric Semerad tells NBC Montana voter turnout was 23% as of 11 a.m. on Tuesday.But Semerad says that includes inactive vot

Montana voters are having their first encounter with a new requirement to provide their birth year on the back of mail-in ballot envelopes alongside the previously required signature line. The change is a result of a legislative mandate aimed at enhancing mail election security.

In Montana, there are currently three active proposals for constitutional amendments that would require state judicial elections to remain nonpartisan.

Election officials across Montana are warning they’ve seen a number of voters tripped up by a new state requirement this year: that mail voters write their birth year when signing ballot envelopes.

What's open Election Day 2025? Banks, mail delivery, grocery stores, and stock market operate normally despite government funding standoff affecting federal offices.