Mason-Dixon Polling & Research conducted a survey of 625 Montana registered voters between Mar 14 and Mar 16, 2011. Respondents were contacted by either Cellphone or Landline and instructed by a live operator. The results of this poll were released on Mar 20, 2011.
The poll was sponsored by Lee Enterprises.
Results were provided for the only publicly acknowledged question.
Question 1 | PreferenceView Matchup
If the 2012 election for Montana's U.S. Senate seat were held today, for whom would you vote if the candidates were Jon Tester, the Democrat, and Dennis Rehberg, the Republican?
| Tester (D) | Rehberg (R) | Undecided | Total |
|---|
| All | 46% | 45% | 9% | 625
Registered |
| Female | 51% | 38% | 11% | 51.2%
320 |
| Male | 40% | 53% | 7% | 48.8%
305 |
| Democrat | 94% | 1% | 5% | |
| Independent | 49% | 37% | 14% | |
| Republican | 3% | 89% | 8% | |
This question was presented to 625 registered voters from Montana who were contacted in some undisclosed fashion. The margin of sampling error is ± 4%.
The question wording was provided by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research and Lee Enterprises.