Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Wyoming 1st District

Currently held by a Republican · open seat

Democrat
Lisa Kinney
0.2%
Republican
Chuck Gray
99.8%
ForecastSafe R
Projected margin
R+32.2
80% range
R+44.6 to R+19.7
Partisan lean
R+46.1
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
R+32.0
Blended
R+32.0
Similar-race shift
+2.3
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+46.1
Elasticity
0.91
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
+0.6
Fundraising
0.0
National environment
D+7.1
Expected margin
R+34.3
How it voted for presidenttwo-party
2024 margin
R+47.0
2020 margin
R+45.0
Shift 2020 → 2024
R+2.0
Votes cast, 2024
269,048

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
441,337
Median age
49.2
Median household income
$72,800
Bachelor’s degree or higher
29%
White
84%
Black
1%
Hispanic
9%
Asian
1%

Used to find demographically similar districts, so a race with no polling can borrow the polling error of races that look like it.

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