Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

New York 12th District

Currently held by a Democrat · open seat

Democrat
Micah Lasher
100.0%
Republican
Caroline Shinkle
0.0%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+78.5
80% range
D+63.4 to D+93.7
Partisan lean
D+67.0
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+79.2
Blended
D+79.2
Similar-race shift
−1.9
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
D+67.0
Elasticity
1.07
Incumbency
0.0
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+4.3
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
D+81.1

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