Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

New York 10th District

Currently held by a Democrat · open seat

Democrat
Brad Lander
>99.9%
Republican
Jennifer Moore
<0.1%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+82.0
80% range
D+69.4 to D+94.5
Partisan lean
D+64.6
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 >99.9%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
D+82.1
Blended
D+82.1
Similar-race shift
−2.5
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+64.6
Elasticity
1.14
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+4.2
National environment
D+7.1
Expected margin
D+84.7
How it voted for presidenttwo-party
2024 margin
D+61.9
2020 margin
D+71.4
Shift 2020 → 2024
R+9.5
Votes cast, 2024
276,966

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
633,635
Median age
43.3
Median household income
$109,600
Bachelor’s degree or higher
61%
White
50%
Black
8%
Hispanic
18%
Asian
24%

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
Brad LanderDEM$2.5M$55k
Jennifer E MooreREP$3k$2k

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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