VotePredictor
past elections

Indiana House

Joe Donnelly (D) vs Chris Chocola (R)

Actual result
D+8.0
Final polls said
D+8.0
2 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
D+5.6
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
1VotePredictorD+5.62.4
2RT StrategiesD+3.05.0
3Zogby AnalyticsD+13.05.0
4Mercury Public AffairsD+0.77.3
5GQRD+16.08.1

Polls (8)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Zogby Analytics2006-10-26500D+13.05
RT Strategies2006-10-25977D+3.05
Mercury Public Affairs2006-10-09300D+0.77
RT Strategies2006-10-091000D+4.04
GQR2006-10-04400D+16.08
Zogby Analytics2006-09-29500D+10.02
Mercury Public Affairs2006-09-17300R+5.013
RT Strategies2006-09-091000D+12.04