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past elections

Virginia Governor

Mark R. Warner (D) vs Mark Lawrence Earley (R)

Actual result
D+5.1
Final polls said
D+7.8
6 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
Winner
Dem

"Final polls said" averages polls from the last ~3 weeks — the call right before the vote, and how pollsters are rated. The model's prediction is walk-forward (trained only on earlier races).

Final rankings

How everyone who called this race did, ranked — VotePredictor shown inline (★).

Pollsters — each pollster's final poll vs the result

#PollsterFinal callMissCalled
1SurveyUSAD+6.00.9
2Mason-Dixon Polling & StrategyD+6.00.9
3McLaughlin & AssociatesD+4.01.1
4Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion ResearchD+9.03.9
5ABC News/The Washington PostD+10.04.9
6Garin-Hart-Yang Research GroupD+10.04.9
7Richmond Times-DispatchD+13.07.9

Polls (9)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
SurveyUSA2001-11-03500D+6.01
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy2001-10-30633D+6.01
Richmond Times-Dispatch2001-10-29481D+13.08
Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion Research2001-10-26423D+9.04
ABC News/The Washington Post2001-10-241010D+10.05
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy2001-10-16625D+3.02
Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group2001-10-10608D+10.05
Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group2001-10-03608D+9.04
McLaughlin & Associates2001-10-03800D+4.01