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past elections

West Virginia Governor

James Justice (D) vs William Paul Cole (R)

Actual result
D+6.8
Final polls said
R+5.0
2 late polls · ✗
Model predicted
R+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
1Global Strategy GroupD+10.03.2
2RepassD+11.04.2
3Just Win StrategiesD+2.04.8
4Garin-Hart-Yang Research GroupD+13.06.2
5VotePredictorR+1.58.3
6SurveyMonkeyR+9.015.8

Polls (6)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
SurveyMonkey2016-11-04472R+9.016
SurveyMonkey2016-10-28321R+1.08
Repass2016-10-14408D+11.04
Global Strategy Group2016-10-14601D+10.03
Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group2016-09-15500D+13.06
Just Win Strategies2016-09-09600D+2.05