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California's 43rd District

Maxine Waters (D)vsCristian Morales (R)

incumbent running · Lean: D+27 · Incumbent: Maxine Waters (D)

99 in 100

Maxine Waters favored>99%

All but certain for Maxine Waters: a 100 percent chance of winning. No public polls yet.

  • Seat:Incumbent running
  • Lean:D+27
  • Incumbent:Maxine Waters (D)
  • District:43 of 52 in California
  • Odds:Waters >99%
  • Margin:Waters +61.6, give or take 6.2
  • Polls:none yet, running on the fundamentals
  • Generic ballot:D+8.2
  • T-minus:16 days

▸ Margin // Uncertainty

Waters +61.6

The model's best guess at the final margin, give or take 6.2 points. Polls have missed by more than that before.

Projected margin
Waters +61.6
Uncertainty
6.2 points, one standard deviation
Likely range
Waters +53.7 to Waters +69.5 (80 percent)
Poll average
No polls
Starting point
Waters +61.6 before any polls

Margins read Democrat minus Republican: Waters ahead is positive, Morales ahead is negative.

▸ Movement // 0 daily snapshots

Reading the history

▸ Polls // None yet

No public polls here. The number comes from the district lean (D+27, worth 47.0 points to the Democrat), the incumbent (Maxine Waters, running again, worth 4.8 points), and the national environment (generic ballot D+8.2, which the model reads as a 9.9 point Democratic tilt after discounting it). Together they give a projected margin of Waters +61.6 with an uncertainty of 6.2 points.

▸ Race file // The facts

The seat
Maxine Waters (D), running for another term.
On the ballot
Maxine Waters (D, incumbent) vs Cristian Morales (R)
Last time
2024: Democrat 75.1, Republican 24.9. Waters by 50.2.
President
2024, statewide: Trump 38.3, Harris 58.5. Harris by 20.1.
Lean
D+27 by the Cook partisan index

Facts from Ballotpedia and Wikipedia, in our words. The district on Ballotpedia ↗

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