Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

UpdatedAug 24, 2026, 5:12 AM UTC
To election day72 days
Simulations200,000

California 14th District

Currently held by a Democrat · open seat · district redrawn for 2026 · same-party (top-two) contest

Democrat
Aisha Wahab
100.0%
Republican
(no Republican — top-two)
0.0%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+52.5
80% range
D+37.2 to D+67.7
Partisan lean
D+39.1
Uncertainty multiplier
2.01×

The 80% range comes from 200,000 simulations in which this race’s error is correlated with every other race through the national, state and demographic layers.

How the estimate is built
Fundamentals 100.0%
Polling average
no polls
Fundamentals
D+53.1
Blended
D+53.1
Similar-race shift
−2.3
Polling

No public polling of this matchup. The forecast rests on fundamentals plus the polling residuals of demographically and politically similar races — which is the normal case: most of the 435 House seats are never polled.

Fundamentals
Partisan lean
D+39.1
Elasticity
1.15
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
+0.8
Fundraising
+4.3
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
D+55.3

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