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2024 Governor · Missouri

Remington · fieldwork ended 2024-10-29 (7 days before the election) · 721 respondents · method not reported

The poll said

Democrat 40% · Republican 51%

R+11.0

The certified result

Democrat 38.72% · Republican 59.14%

R+20.4

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 40 − 51 = -11.00
  2. Actual margin = 38.719 − 59.143 = -20.424
  3. Signed miss = -11.00 − (-20.424) = 9.425
  4. Absolute miss = |9.425| = 9.425

The poll overstated the Democrat by 9.4 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 governor_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89226, race ID 9540 (538 database).

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