Ohio 5th District
Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026
Democrat
Daniel Burket
3%
Republican
Bob Latta
97%
ForecastSafe R
- Projected margin
- R+21.5
- 80% range
- R+35.3 to R+7.5
- Partisan lean
- R+23.0
- Tipping-point chance
- 0.08%
- 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
100.0%
Fundamentals 100.0%
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- R+20.9
- Blended
- R+20.9
- Similar-race shift
- +1.3
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+23.0
- Elasticity
- 0.92
- Incumbency
- −1.9
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- −4.4
- National environment
- D+5.4
- Expected margin
- R+22.1