Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Iowa 3rd District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Sarah Trone Garriott
60%
Republican
Zach Nunn
40%
ForecastTilt D
Projected margin
D+2.6
80% range
R+11.2 to D+16.5
Partisan lean
R+3.1
Tipping-point chance
1.17%
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+3.2
Blended
D+3.2
Similar-race shift
+1.4
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+3.1
Elasticity
0.97
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+2.9
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
D+1.8

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