Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

California 24th District

Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026

Democrat
Salud Carbajal
99.7%
Republican
Robert Smith
0.3%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+33.8
80% range
D+19.9 to D+47.6
Partisan lean
D+27.1
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
D+34.4
Blended
D+34.4
Similar-race shift
−2.3
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+27.1
Elasticity
0.97
Incumbency
+1.9
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+3.2
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
D+36.7

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