Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Ohio 3rd District

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

Democrat
Joyce Beatty
>99.9%
Republican
Republican candidate (OH-03)
<0.1%
ForecastSafe D
Projected margin
D+49.9
80% range
D+36.1 to D+63.8
Partisan lean
D+41.9
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+50.5
Blended
D+50.5
Similar-race shift
−1.5
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+41.9
Elasticity
0.96
Incumbency
+1.9
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+4.5
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
D+52.1

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