Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

North Carolina 11th District

Currently held by a Republican · open seat · district redrawn for 2026

Democrat
Jamie Ager
50%
Republican
Jennifer Balkcom
50%
ForecastTilt D
Projected margin
D+0.1
80% range
R+15.0 to D+15.3
Partisan lean
R+9.7
Tipping-point chance
1.04%
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+0.7
Blended
D+0.7
Similar-race shift
+0.9
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+9.7
Elasticity
0.88
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+3.0
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
R+0.2

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