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Oregon's 5th District

Janelle Bynum (D)vsPatti Adair (R)

incumbent running · Lean: D+4 · Incumbent: Janelle Bynum (D)

99 in 100

Janelle Bynum favored>99%

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

  • Seat:Incumbent running
  • Lean:D+4
  • Incumbent:Janelle Bynum (D)
  • District:5 of 6 in Oregon
  • Odds:Bynum >99%
  • Margin:Bynum +21.6, give or take 6.2
  • Polls:none yet, running on the fundamentals
  • Generic ballot:D+8.2
  • T-minus:16 days

▸ Margin // Uncertainty

Bynum +21.6

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
Bynum +21.6
Uncertainty
6.2 points, one standard deviation
Likely range
Bynum +13.7 to Bynum +29.5 (80 percent)
Poll average
No polls
Starting point
Bynum +21.6 before any polls

Margins read Democrat minus Republican: Bynum ahead is positive, Adair ahead is negative.

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▸ Polls // None yet

No public polls here. The number comes from the district lean (D+4, worth 7.0 points to the Democrat), the incumbent (Janelle Bynum, 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 Bynum +21.6 with an uncertainty of 6.2 points.

▸ Race file // The facts

The seat
Janelle Bynum (D), running for another term.
On the ballot
Janelle Bynum (D, incumbent) vs Patti Adair (R)
Last time
2024: Democrat 47.7, Republican 45.0. Bynum by 2.7.
President
2024, statewide: Trump 41.0, Harris 55.3. Harris by 14.3.
Lean
D+4 by the Cook partisan index

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

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