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2024 House · New York

Siena · fieldwork ended 2024-10-17 (19 days before the election) · 532 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 53% · Republican 41%

D+12.0

The certified result

Democrat 51.06% · Republican 48.77%

D+2.3

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 53 − 41 = 12.00
  2. Actual margin = 51.065 − 48.774 = 2.291
  3. Signed miss = 12.00 − (2.291) = 9.709
  4. Absolute miss = |9.709| = 9.709

The poll overstated the Democrat by 9.7 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 88849, race ID 9801 (538 database).

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