VotePredictor
past elections

New York Senate

Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) vs John Spencer (R)

Actual result
D+31.6
Final polls said
D+32.6
4 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
D+28.8
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
1Marist CollegeD+33.01.4
2CBS News/The New York TimesD+30.01.6
3VotePredictorD+28.82.8
4Quinnipiac UniversityD+35.03.4
5Siena CollegeD+37.05.4
6Zogby AnalyticsD+24.37.3

Polls (11)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Siena College2006-10-31500D+37.05
Marist College2006-10-31503D+33.01
Zogby Analytics2006-10-25952D+24.37
Marist College2006-10-17475D+36.04
Quinnipiac University2006-10-131053D+35.03
Zogby Analytics2006-10-13679D+23.88
Siena College2006-10-11620D+27.05
Quinnipiac University2006-09-281263D+35.03
CBS News/The New York Times2006-09-26734D+30.02
Zogby Analytics2006-09-22679D+23.78
Siena College2006-09-13625D+29.03