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past elections

New Mexico Senate

Jeff Bingaman (D) vs Allen W. McCulloch MD (R)

Actual result
D+41.3
Final polls said
D+31.4
2 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
D+29.0
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
1Research & Polling Inc.D+42.00.7
2VotePredictorD+29.012.3
3Zogby AnalyticsD+20.720.6

Polls (5)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Research & Polling Inc.2006-11-01503D+42.01
Zogby Analytics2006-10-25679D+20.721
Zogby Analytics2006-10-13679D+27.214
Research & Polling Inc.2006-09-27664D+46.05
Zogby Analytics2006-09-22679D+25.416