California 7th District
Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026 · same-party (top-two) contest
- Projected margin
- D+28.2
- 80% range
- D+16.7 to D+39.8
- Partisan lean
- D+15.3
- 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.
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- D+28.4
- Blended
- D+28.4
- Similar-race shift
- −1.7
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.
- Partisan lean
- D+15.3
- Elasticity
- 1.06
- Incumbency
- +1.9
- Candidate experience
- +0.8
- Fundraising
- +4.2
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- D+30.1
- 2024 margin
- D+13.3
- 2020 margin
- D+20.1
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+6.8
- Votes cast, 2024
- 346,907
Presidential results reaggregated onto the 2026 district lines. This is where the seat’s partisan lean comes from, and it carries most of the forecast in a race nobody has polled.
- Population
- 586,863
- Median age
- 48.5
- Median household income
- $91,900
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 35%
- White
- 44%
- Black
- 10%
- Hispanic
- 21%
- Asian
- 22%
Used to find demographically similar districts, so a race with no polling can borrow the polling error of races that look like it.
| Candidate | Party | Raised | Cash on hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doris Matsui | DEM | $3.2M | $467k |
| Elizabeth Emken | REP | $0 | $366 |
Receipts across the cycle, from FEC bulk filings. The model uses the ratio between the two sides rather than either total, and weights it lightly — money follows a competitive race at least as much as it causes one.