New York 2nd District
Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running
- Projected margin
- R+10.8
- 80% range
- R+22.4 to D+0.7
- Partisan lean
- R+10.8
- Tipping-point chance
- 0.23%
- 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.
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- R+10.6
- Blended
- R+10.6
- Similar-race shift
- −0.8
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.
- Partisan lean
- R+10.8
- Elasticity
- 1.15
- Incumbency
- −3.4
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- −1.1
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- R+9.8
- 2024 margin
- R+14.1
- 2020 margin
- R+2.5
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+11.6
- Votes cast, 2024
- 362,137
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.
- Population
- 611,855
- Median age
- 49.2
- Median household income
- $119,400
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 33%
- White
- 60%
- Black
- 11%
- Hispanic
- 25%
- Asian
- 4%
Used to find demographically similar districts, so a race with no polling can borrow the polling error of races that look like it.
| Candidate | Party | Raised | Cash on hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Garbarino | REP | $3.5M | $3.5M |
| Patrick Halpin | DEM | $462k | $89k |
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.