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Michigan's 6th District

Debbie Dingell (D)vsHeather Smiley (R)

incumbent running · Lean: D+12 · Incumbent: Debbie Dingell (D)

99 in 100

Debbie Dingell favored>99%

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

  • Seat:Incumbent running
  • Lean:D+12
  • Incumbent:Debbie Dingell (D)
  • District:6 of 13 in Michigan
  • Odds:Dingell >99%
  • Margin:Dingell +35.5, give or take 6.2
  • Polls:none yet, running on the fundamentals
  • Generic ballot:D+8.2
  • T-minus:16 days

▸ Margin // Uncertainty

Dingell +35.5

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
Dingell +35.5
Uncertainty
6.2 points, one standard deviation
Likely range
Dingell +27.6 to Dingell +43.4 (80 percent)
Poll average
No polls
Starting point
Dingell +35.5 before any polls

Margins read Democrat minus Republican: Dingell ahead is positive, Smiley 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+12, worth 20.9 points to the Democrat), the incumbent (Debbie Dingell, 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 Dingell +35.5 with an uncertainty of 6.2 points.

▸ Race file // The facts

The seat
Debbie Dingell (D), running for another term.
On the ballot
Debbie Dingell (D, incumbent) vs Heather Smiley (R)
Last time
2024: Democrat 62.0, Republican 35.0. Dingell by 27.0.
President
2024, statewide: Trump 49.7, Harris 48.3. Trump by 1.4.
Lean
D+12 by the Cook partisan index

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

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