Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

California 40th District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026 · same-party (top-two) contest

Democrat
(no Democrat — top-two)
100.0%
Republican
Ken Calvert
0.0%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
R+9.7
80% range
R+23.6 to D+4.1
Partisan lean
R+11.1
Tipping-point chance
0.48%
Uncertainty multiplier
1.80×

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
R+9.1
Blended
R+9.1
Similar-race shift
−0.5
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
R+11.1
Elasticity
0.99
Incumbency
−1.9
Candidate experience
−0.8
Fundraising
−0.2
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
R+8.6

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