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past elections

South Carolina House

Francis Person (D) vs Mick Mulvaney (R)

Actual result
R+20.5
Final polls said
R+23.0
1 late poll · ✓
Model predicted
R+25.7
Winner
Rep

"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
1Benchmark ResearchR+23.02.5
2VotePredictorR+25.75.3

Polls (1)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Benchmark Research2016-09-271200R+23.03