Indiana 5th District
Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running
- Projected margin
- R+11.7
- 80% range
- R+23.3 to R+0.1
- Partisan lean
- R+16.6
- Tipping-point chance
- 0.18%
- 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
- R+11.4
- Blended
- R+11.4
- Similar-race shift
- +0.9
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
- R+16.6
- Elasticity
- 0.88
- Incumbency
- −3.4
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- −1.4
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- R+12.3
- 2024 margin
- R+17.1
- 2020 margin
- R+16.3
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+0.9
- Votes cast, 2024
- 369,170
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
- 574,610
- Median age
- 48.7
- Median household income
- $76,800
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 39%
- White
- 83%
- Black
- 7%
- Hispanic
- 4%
- Asian
- 4%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Spartz | REP | $1.3M | $230k |
| James (j.d.) David Ford | DEM | $582k | $315k |
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.