Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Arizona 9th District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Danielle Sterbinsky
1%
Republican
Paul Gosar
99%
ForecastSafe R
Projected margin
R+28.3
80% range
R+42.1 to R+14.4
Partisan lean
R+29.7
Uncertainty multiplier
1.80×

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+27.7
Blended
R+27.7
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+29.7
Elasticity
1.01
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
−0.7
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+28.7

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