Scrutinel— 2026 midterms

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

Virginia 6th District

Currently held by a Republican · incumbent running

Democrat
Beth Macy
6%
Republican
Ben Cline
94%
ForecastLikely R
Projected margin
R+17.4
80% range
R+31.3 to R+3.5
Partisan lean
R+23.6
Tipping-point chance
0.16%
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+16.8
Blended
R+16.8
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
R+23.6
Elasticity
0.91
Incumbency
−3.4
Candidate experience
0.0
Fundraising
+1.7
National environment
D+5.3
Expected margin
R+17.8

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