Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedOct 10, 2026, 11:27 AM EDT
To election day24 days
Simulations200,000

Massachusetts 4th District

Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running

Democrat
Jake Auchincloss
>99.9%
Republican
Republican candidate (MA-04)
<0.1%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+37.4
80% range
D+25.9 to D+49.0
Partisan lean
D+22.7
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 >99.9%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
D+37.6
Blended
D+37.6
Similar-race shift
−2.4
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
D+22.7
Elasticity
1.12
Incumbency
+3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+4.1
National environment
D+7.1
Expected margin
D+40.0
How it voted for presidenttwo-party
2024 margin
D+20.1
2020 margin
D+29.0
Shift 2020 → 2024
R+8.9
Votes cast, 2024
406,811

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.

Who lives hereCensus ACS
Population
615,677
Median age
50.2
Median household income
$109,200
Bachelor’s degree or higher
49%
White
81%
Black
5%
Hispanic
5%
Asian
7%

Used to find demographically similar districts, so a race with no polling can borrow the polling error of races that look like it.

Campaign fundraisingFEC filings to Invalid Date
CandidatePartyRaisedCash on hand
Jake AuchinclossDEM$3.6M$7.3M
Thomas Phd StalcupREP$26k$1k

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.

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