Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Kansas — Governor

Currently held by a Democrat · open seat

Democrat
Cindy Holscher
32%
Republican
Ty Masterson
68%
ForecastLean R
Projected margin
R+5.5
80% range
R+20.6 to D+9.7
Partisan lean
R+15.7
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
R+5.0
Blended
R+5.0
Similar-race shift
+1.3
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
R+15.7
Elasticity
0.89
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
0.0
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+6.3

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