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2024 Senate · New Mexico

Research & Polling · fieldwork ended 2024-10-18 (18 days before the election) · 1,024 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 51% · Republican 40%

D+11.0

The certified result

Democrat 55.06% · Republican 44.94%

D+10.1

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 51 − 40 = 11.00
  2. Actual margin = 55.057 − 44.943 = 10.114
  3. Signed miss = 11.00 − (10.114) = 0.887
  4. Absolute miss = |0.887| = 0.887

The poll overstated the Democrat by 0.9 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 senate_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 88821, race ID 9523 (538 database).

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