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2024 House · New Mexico

Research & Polling · fieldwork ended 2024-10-18 (18 days before the election) · 344 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 52% · Republican 35%

D+17.0

The certified result

Democrat 56.28% · Republican 43.72%

D+12.6

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 52 − 35 = 17.00
  2. Actual margin = 56.285 − 43.715 = 12.570
  3. Signed miss = 17.00 − (12.570) = 4.429
  4. Absolute miss = |4.429| = 4.429

The poll overstated the Democrat by 4.4 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 house_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 88821, race ID 9797 (538 database).

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