Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

California 49th District

Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running · district redrawn for 2026

Democrat
Mike Levin
97%
Republican
Armen Kurdian
3%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+21.6
80% range
D+7.7 to D+35.6
Partisan lean
D+13.6
Tipping-point chance
0.19%
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
D+22.2
Blended
D+22.2
Similar-race shift
−2.1
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+13.6
Elasticity
0.94
Incumbency
+1.9
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+4.3
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
D+24.3

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