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past elections

New York House

Daniel B. Maffei (D) vs James T. Walsh (R)

Actual result
D+4.1
Final polls said
R+0.5
4 late polls · ✗
Model predicted
R+3.5
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
1Zogby AnalyticsD+4.00.1
2RT StrategiesD+9.04.9
3Benenson Strategy GroupR+2.06.1
4VotePredictorR+3.57.7
5Jeffrey StonecashR+13.017.1

Polls (6)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Jeffrey Stonecash2006-10-29750R+13.017
Zogby Analytics2006-10-28500D+4.00
Benenson Strategy Group2006-10-25400R+2.06
RT Strategies2006-10-251020D+9.05
RT Strategies2006-10-091000D+8.04
Benenson Strategy Group2006-09-20408R+4.08