Republican Tim Sheehy has won Montana’s Senate race, unseating incumbent Sen. Jon Tester and adding to the GOP majority in the U.S. Senate. Tester — a moderate and the chamber’s only working farmer — was considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats on the ballot nationwide.

Tim Sheehy, a wealthy Republican businessman, was dogged by controversies during the campaign. But Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat, could not outrun the demographic shift in his deep-red state.

Republican Tim Sheehy, an entrepreneur and ex-Navy SEAL, will become the next Senator from Montana in Jan. 2025, after defeating