Texas 30th District
Currently held by a Democrat · open seat · district redrawn for 2026
- Projected margin
- D+64.0
- 80% range
- D+51.4 to D+76.5
- Partisan lean
- D+50.5
- 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.
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- D+64.2
- Blended
- D+64.2
- Similar-race shift
- −0.7
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
- D+50.5
- Elasticity
- 1.14
- Incumbency
- 0.0
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- +0.1
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- D+64.8
- 2024 margin
- D+47.8
- 2020 margin
- D+57.4
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+9.6
- Votes cast, 2024
- 244,001
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
- 555,763
- Median age
- 45.3
- Median household income
- $63,000
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 23%
- White
- 15%
- Black
- 47%
- Hispanic
- 32%
- Asian
- 5%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frederick Haynes | DEM | $420k | $120k |
| Sholdon Daniels | REP | $357k | $-21795 |
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.