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Ohio's 3rd District

Joyce Beatty (D)vsCleophus Dulaney (R)

incumbent running · Lean: D+21 · Incumbent: Joyce Beatty (D)

99 in 100

Joyce Beatty favored>99%

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

  • Seat:Incumbent running
  • Lean:D+21
  • Incumbent:Joyce Beatty (D)
  • District:3 of 15 in Ohio
  • Odds:Beatty >99%
  • Margin:Beatty +51.2, give or take 6.2
  • Polls:none yet, running on the fundamentals
  • Generic ballot:D+8.2
  • T-minus:16 days

▸ Margin // Uncertainty

Beatty +51.2

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
Beatty +51.2
Uncertainty
6.2 points, one standard deviation
Likely range
Beatty +43.3 to Beatty +59.1 (80 percent)
Poll average
No polls
Starting point
Beatty +51.2 before any polls

Margins read Democrat minus Republican: Beatty ahead is positive, Dulaney ahead is negative.

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▸ Polls // None yet

No public polls here. The number comes from the district lean (D+21, worth 36.5 points to the Democrat), the incumbent (Joyce Beatty, 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 Beatty +51.2 with an uncertainty of 6.2 points.

▸ Race file // The facts

The seat
Joyce Beatty (D), running for another term.
On the ballot
Joyce Beatty (D, incumbent) vs Cleophus Dulaney (R)
Last time
2024: Democrat 70.7, Republican 29.3. Beatty by 41.4.
President
2024, statewide: Trump 55.1, Harris 43.9. Trump by 11.2.
Lean
D+21 by the Cook partisan index

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

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