Washington 9th District
Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running
- Projected margin
- D+53.5
- 80% range
- D+42.0 to D+65.0
- Partisan lean
- D+43.8
- 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
- D+53.7
- Blended
- D+53.7
- Similar-race shift
- −2.5
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+43.8
- Elasticity
- 0.95
- Incumbency
- +3.4
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- +4.1
- National environment
- D+7.1
- Expected margin
- D+56.2
- 2024 margin
- D+42.7
- 2020 margin
- D+46.0
- Shift 2020 → 2024
- R+3.3
- Votes cast, 2024
- 320,605
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
- 602,935
- Median age
- 45.8
- Median household income
- $95,300
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
- 40%
- White
- 44%
- Black
- 13%
- Hispanic
- 12%
- Asian
- 27%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| D. Adam Smith | DEM | $1.9M | $870k |
| Douglas Michael Basler | REP | $12k | $5k |
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.