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past elections

New Jersey Senate

Frank R. Lautenberg (D) vs Douglas R. Forrester (R)

Actual result
D+9.9
Final polls said
D+9.7
14 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+10.00.1
2West Chester UniversityD+10.00.1
3Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityD+9.00.9
4Zogby AnalyticsD+11.01.1
5Quinnipiac UniversityD+11.01.1
6Mellman GroupD+11.01.1
7Rutgers University Eagleton Center for Public Interest PollingD+12.02.1
8Mason-Dixon Polling & StrategyD+7.02.9
9A&A ResearchD+7.02.9
10CBS News/The New York TimesD+13.03.1
11Gannett New JerseyD+5.04.9

Polls (24)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Zogby Analytics2002-11-03527D+11.01
Zogby Analytics2002-11-01679D+13.03
Gannett New Jersey2002-11-01611D+5.05
Fairleigh Dickinson University2002-10-31921D+9.01
Quinnipiac University2002-10-31574D+11.01
Fairleigh Dickinson University2002-10-30679D+10.00
Rutgers University Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling2002-10-29458D+12.02
SurveyUSA2002-10-28732D+10.00
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy2002-10-22800D+7.03
SurveyUSA2002-10-21679D+11.01
CBS News/The New York Times2002-10-21746D+13.03
West Chester University2002-10-18404D+10.00
Quinnipiac University2002-10-18603D+9.01
Rutgers University Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling2002-10-15679D+5.05
Fairleigh Dickinson University2002-10-12679D+7.03
Zogby Analytics2002-10-10679D+12.02
SurveyUSA2002-10-09679D+9.01
Rutgers University Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling2002-10-05679EVEN10
SurveyUSA2002-10-04679D+4.06
Quinnipiac University2002-10-04514D+4.06
A&A Research2002-10-04679D+7.03
Mellman Group2002-10-03400D+11.01
Rutgers University Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling2002-09-22547R+13.023
Rutgers University Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling2002-09-05679R+5.015