VotePredictor
past elections

California House

Lois Capps (D) vs Chris Mitchum (R)

Actual result
D+3.9
Final polls said
R+1.0
1 late poll · ✗
Model predicted
D+1.5
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
1VotePredictorD+1.52.3
2Probolsky ResearchR+1.04.8

Polls (1)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Probolsky Research2014-10-15442R+1.05