Illinois 6th District
Currently held by a Democrat · incumbent running
Democrat
Sean Casten
95%
Republican
Niki Conforti
5%
ForecastLikely D
- Projected margin
- D+18.4
- 80% range
- D+4.6 to D+32.3
- Partisan lean
- D+7.3
- Tipping-point chance
- 0.29%
- 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
100.0%
Fundamentals 100.0%
- Polling average
- no polls
- Fundamentals
- D+19.1
- Blended
- D+19.1
- Similar-race shift
- +0.1
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+7.3
- Elasticity
- 1.01
- Incumbency
- +3.4
- Candidate experience
- 0.0
- Fundraising
- +2.8
- National environment
- D+5.3
- Expected margin
- D+19.0