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Oregon's 3rd District

Maxine Dexter (D)vsLoran Ayles (R)

incumbent running · Lean: D+24 · Incumbent: Maxine Dexter (D)

99 in 100

Maxine Dexter favored>99%

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

  • Seat:Incumbent running
  • Lean:D+24
  • Incumbent:Maxine Dexter (D)
  • District:3 of 6 in Oregon
  • Odds:Dexter >99%
  • Margin:Dexter +56.4, give or take 6.2
  • Polls:none yet, running on the fundamentals
  • Generic ballot:D+8.2
  • T-minus:16 days

▸ Margin // Uncertainty

Dexter +56.4

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
Dexter +56.4
Uncertainty
6.2 points, one standard deviation
Likely range
Dexter +48.5 to Dexter +64.3 (80 percent)
Poll average
No polls
Starting point
Dexter +56.4 before any polls

Margins read Democrat minus Republican: Dexter ahead is positive, Ayles ahead is negative.

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▸ Polls // None yet

No public polls here. The number comes from the district lean (D+24, worth 41.8 points to the Democrat), the incumbent (Maxine Dexter, 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 Dexter +56.4 with an uncertainty of 6.2 points.

▸ Race file // The facts

The seat
Maxine Dexter (D), running for another term.
On the ballot
Maxine Dexter (D, incumbent) vs Loran Ayles (R)
Last time
2024: Democrat 67.9, Republican 25.3. Dexter by 42.6.
President
2024, statewide: Trump 41.0, Harris 55.3. Harris by 14.3.
Lean
D+24 by the Cook partisan index

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

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