Louisiana 2nd

Solid D

>99 in 100

Chance the Democrat wins (>99.9%)

<1 in 100

Chance an independent candidate wins (<0.1%)

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Forecasted turnout

Partisan lean

# How the forecast has changed

We'll be updating our forecasts every time new data is available, every day through Nov. 6.

Chance of winning

Popular vote share

KEY

AVERAGE

80% CHANCE OF FALLING IN RANGE

# What goes into the

classic forecast in the Louisiana 2nd

FiveThirtyEight hasn’t collected any polls in this district. Because this district doesn’t include both a Democratic and Republican candidate, CANTOR isn’t used. We rely on non-polling factors to project the race’s outcome.

#Latest polls

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#Similar districts and CANTOR

Our district similarity scores are based on demographic, geographic and political characteristics; if two districts have a score of 100, it means they are perfectly identical. These scores inform a system we use — CANTOR, or Congressional Algorithm using Neighboring Typologies to Optimize Regression — to infer what polling would say in unpolled or lightly polled districts, given what it says in similar districts.

Districts most similar to the Louisiana 2nd

	Sim. score	Polling avg.
TN-9	63	—
GA-4	61	—
IL-2	55	—
FL-20	54	—
MO-1	53	—
AL-7	51	—
OH-11	49	—
MI-13	48	—
GA-13	47	—
MD-7	45	—

How this forecast works

Nate Silver explains the methodology behind our 2018 midterms forecast. Read more …

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