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2024 President · New York

YouGov · fieldwork ended 2024-10-17 (19 days before the election) · 1,089 respondents · Online Matched Sample

The poll said

Democrat 58% · Republican 38%

D+20.0

The certified result

Democrat 55.91% · Republican 43.31%

D+12.6

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 58 − 38 = 20.00
  2. Actual margin = 55.906 − 43.315 = 12.591
  3. Signed miss = 20.00 − (12.591) = 7.409
  4. Absolute miss = |7.409| = 7.409

The poll overstated the Democrat by 7.4 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 president_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89076, race ID 8860 (538 database).

This poll asked 2 versions of the question for this race; one is scored (largest sample) so the poll counts once.

population: rv