Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC
To election day71 days
Simulations200,000

Alabama 1st District

Currently held by a Republican · open seat · district redrawn for 2026

Democrat
Clyde Jones
1%
Republican
Jerry Carl
99%
ForecastSafe R
Projected margin
R+34.0
80% range
R+49.1 to R+18.8
Partisan lean
R+34.5
Uncertainty multiplier
2.01×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
R+33.4
Blended
R+33.4
Similar-race shift
+0.9
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
R+34.5
Elasticity
1.03
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−4.2
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+34.3

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