Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Pennsylvania 1st District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Robert Harvie
58%
Republican
Brian Fitzpatrick
42%
ForecastTilt D
Projected margin
D+2.2
80% range
R+11.7 to D+16.0
Partisan lean
D+1.8
Tipping-point chance
1.19%
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+2.8
Blended
D+2.8
Similar-race shift
−1.0
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+1.8
Elasticity
0.98
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+0.2
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
D+3.8

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