Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

California 11th District

Currently held by a Democrat · open seat · district redrawn for 2026 · same-party (top-two) contest

Democrat
Scott Wiener
100.0%
Republican
(no Republican — top-two)
0.0%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+80.6
80% range
D+65.5 to D+95.8
Partisan lean
D+72.3
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
D+81.2
Blended
D+81.2
Similar-race shift
−2.7
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
D+72.3
Elasticity
1.01
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
+0.8
Fundraising
+4.5
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
D+84.0

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