Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Maine 1st District

Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running · ranked-choice voting

Democrat
Chellie Pingree
99%
Republican
Ronald Russell
1%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+28.8
80% range
D+14.9 to D+42.7
Partisan lean
D+22.9
Tipping-point chance
0.06%
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+29.4
Blended
D+29.4
Similar-race shift
−1.7
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+22.9
Elasticity
0.88
Incumbency
+3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+2.0
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
D+31.1

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