Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Michigan 1st District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Callie Barr
8%
Republican
Jack Bergman
92%
ForecastLikely R
Projected margin
R+15.6
80% range
R+29.5 to R+1.7
Partisan lean
R+20.8
Tipping-point chance
0.20%
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+15.0
Blended
R+15.0
Similar-race shift
+0.8
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+20.8
Elasticity
0.89
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+0.9
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
R+15.7

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