Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Louisiana — U.S. Senate

Currently held by a Republican · open seat

Democrat
Jamie Davis
12%
Republican
Julia Letlow
88%
ForecastLikely R
Projected margin
R+14.0
80% range
R+29.2 to D+1.1
Partisan lean
R+21.2
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+13.4
Blended
R+13.4
Similar-race shift
+0.6
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+21.2
Elasticity
0.95
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+0.8
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+14.0

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