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2024 Senate · Michigan

Echelon Insights · fieldwork ended 2024-10-30 (6 days before the election) · 600 respondents · Live Phone/Text-to-Web

The poll said

Democrat 48% · Republican 46%

D+2.0

The certified result

Democrat 48.64% · Republican 48.30%

D+0.3

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 48 − 46 = 2.00
  2. Actual margin = 48.639 − 48.298 = 0.341
  3. Signed miss = 2.00 − (0.341) = 1.659
  4. Absolute miss = |1.659| = 1.659

The poll overstated the Democrat by 1.7 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 89138, race ID 9515 (538 database).

population: lv