Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Minnesota 1st District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Jake Johnson
27%
Republican
Brad Finstad
73%
ForecastLean R
Projected margin
R+6.4
80% range
R+20.3 to D+7.5
Partisan lean
R+11.2
Tipping-point chance
0.71%
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
R+5.8
Blended
R+5.8
Similar-race shift
+1.0
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+11.2
Elasticity
0.94
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+1.7
National environment
D+5.4
Expected margin
R+6.8

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