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past elections

Virginia Governor

Ralph S. Northam (D) vs Ed W. Gillespie (R)

Actual result
D+8.9
Final polls said
D+3.3
24 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
D+0.6
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
1Quinnipiac UniversityD+9.00.1
2Change ResearchD+6.02.9
3Christopher Newport University Wason Center for Civic LeadershipD+6.02.9
4Gravis MarketingD+5.53.4
5Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. ResearchD+5.03.9
6The Washington Post/George Mason University Schar School of Policy and GovernmentD+5.03.9
7SurveyMonkeyD+5.03.9
8Princeton Survey Research Associates InternationalD+5.03.9
9Suffolk UniversityD+4.04.9
10Emerson CollegeD+3.05.9
11The New York Times/Siena CollegeD+3.05.9
12Public Policy PollingD+3.05.9
13Monmouth University Polling InstituteD+2.06.9
14Trafalgar GroupD+1.87.1
15The Polling Company Inc.D+1.07.9
16IMGE InsightsD+1.07.9
17Mason-Dixon Polling & StrategyD+1.07.9
18VotePredictorD+0.68.3
19Rasmussen ReportsEVEN8.9
20Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion ResearchEVEN8.9
21Øptimus AnalyticsR+3.011.9
22Hampton University Center for Public PolicyR+8.016.9

Polls (41)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
The Polling Company Inc.2017-11-04800D+1.08
IMGE Insights2017-11-04800D+1.08
Monmouth University Polling Institute2017-11-04713D+2.07
Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research2017-11-041239D+5.04
Emerson College2017-11-03810D+3.06
Change Research2017-11-033648D+6.03
Quinnipiac University2017-11-021056D+9.00
Rasmussen Reports2017-11-02875EVEN9
Trafalgar Group2017-11-011200D+1.87
Christopher Newport University Wason Center for Civic Leadership2017-11-01839D+6.03
Gravis Marketing2017-11-011143D+5.53
The Polling Company Inc.2017-11-01800R+2.011
Øptimus Analytics2017-11-011600R+3.012
Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion Research2017-10-31781EVEN9
The New York Times/Siena College2017-10-31985D+3.06
Suffolk University2017-10-31500D+4.05
The Washington Post/George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government2017-10-28921D+5.04
Quinnipiac University2017-10-27916D+17.08
SurveyMonkey2017-10-26666D+5.04
The Polling Company Inc.2017-10-25800EVEN9
IMGE Insights2017-10-23800D+4.05
Christopher Newport University Wason Center for Civic Leadership2017-10-22812D+7.02
Hampton University Center for Public Policy2017-10-20750R+8.017
Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research2017-10-16697D+7.02
Quinnipiac University2017-10-141088D+14.05
Monmouth University Polling Institute2017-10-14408R+1.010
Christopher Newport University Wason Center for Civic Leadership2017-10-11642D+4.05
Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion Research2017-10-10607D+6.03
Emerson College2017-10-06318D+5.04
Christopher Newport University Wason Center for Civic Leadership2017-10-04928D+7.02
The Washington Post/George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government2017-09-30720D+13.04
Monmouth University Polling Institute2017-09-23499D+5.04
Public Policy Polling2017-09-22849D+3.06
Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion Research2017-09-20596D+4.05
Beacon Research/Shaw & Co. Research2017-09-17507D+4.05
Christopher Newport University Wason Center for Civic Leadership2017-09-17776D+6.03
Quinnipiac University2017-09-16850D+10.01
IMGE Insights2017-09-151000D+4.05
Suffolk University2017-09-15500EVEN9
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy2017-09-12625D+1.08
Princeton Survey Research Associates International2017-09-09562D+5.04