a weak prior / state legislatures2026 · research preview

50 states · upper, lower & Nebraska

2026 State Legislative Elections

Explore the prior, the information behind it, and the range of elections that could happen together.

District geography

Coverage map

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Select a district to inspect its source identity.

Your scenario

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Evidence before probabilities

Forecasts are not ready for publication.

Historical results, district plans and candidate records must pass coverage checks and retrospective validation before this chamber receives probabilities.

Use the synthetic example to explore the scenario picker. Its numbers are generated for interface testing and say nothing about the 2026 election.

Interpretable by construction

Where the forecast comes from

  1. Prior: the source-backed predictors and fitted effects declared by the selected artifact.
  2. Information: timestamped official nominations, historical returns and eligible polls. Each artifact lists the inputs it actually uses.
  3. Posterior: joint draws using the shared factors and residuals declared by the selected model.

No prediction markets. News may enter only after a reproducible historical coding rule improves held-out validation.

Historical accountability

Backtesting & publication

Hold out whole election cycles. Track probability calibration, vote-margin coverage and chamber seat distributions; publish the uncertainty and data gaps.

Sources & freshness