Theo · Election Forecast '26

Nationalization / Indicator

Candidate over/underperformance vs presidential baseline
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house governor senate

How far each race ran from its presidential baseline

how to read · one hollow ring is one race; across is the margin it actually won by, up is how far that sat from the same state's presidential margin. The thin diagonal is where a race matched its baseline exactly, and the ink rule across the plot is the median.
Source: certified results for each race, against the presidential margin in the same state — the same cycle for 2024, the prior presidential cycle for midterms.

How far the races sat from their baseline

how to read · each bar is how many races landed at that distance from their state's presidential lean; left of zero is Republican overperformance.
Source: certified results and the presidential baseline for the same cycle.

Top D overperformers

Top R overperformers