FreeStater's 3rd and Final 2024 Election Prediction

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After a series of two very bad electoral predictions, and with the election looming tomorrow, I'm going to show off my third and final prediction for not only the presidential election, but the House of Representatives, Senate, and gubernatorial races too.

Anyone could tell you my old predictions were terrible. Thankfully, I have access to better data and am more knowledgeable now, so hopefully this round will be more refined. But we'll see tomorrow, I suppose.

First up is my presidential prediction. The candidates are already set in stone, so I won't need to be introducing them here. This map's margins are, in decreasing order of darkness: over 15 points, 15 to 10 points, 10 to 5 points, 5 to 1 points, and under 1 point.

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My final takeaway is Trump winning the election with 286 electoral votes, in comparison to Harris's 252.

Next up we have my Congressional predictions. There are no margins on these two maps, only a hold (light color) or flip (dark color).

First, my Senate prediction (note that Arizona, Maine, Vermont, and West Virginia have nominally independent but Democratically-aligned senators, who I am treating as normal Democrats):

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I predict control of the Senate ought to flip to Republicans, with 51 senators, compared to just 49 Democratic senators.

Second, my prediction for the House of Representatives:

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Again, I see this house flipping. I predict Democrats will win 220 seats, while the Republicans will win only 215.

Lastly, my prediction for the various gubernatorial races:
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I foresee no flips. Vermont is being contested by a popular four-term Republican governor, New Hampshire is being contested by a popular Republican governor's hand-picked successor, and the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina was found to have called himself a "black Nazi" and wishing for a return to slavery on a porn website... yeah. All the other races are standard party-line stuff.

And those are my last-minute predictions! I'll probably end up doing a retrospective after election day to see what I got wrong and right. Let me know what y'all think in the comments.
26 Comments
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Level 81
Nov 4, 2024
The House of Representatives map is too dense to see in metropolitan areas, so here's a direct link.
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Level 66
Nov 4, 2024
What do you think about the popular vote? Also crazy how your prediction basically comes down to just Pennsylvania.
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Level 81
Nov 4, 2024
Trump will probably win it. The polls seem to think so, anyway.
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Level 78
Nov 4, 2024
I think it's reasonable to expect it all to come down to Pennsylvania.
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Level 63
Nov 4, 2024
hmm
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Level 77
Nov 4, 2024
I have the same exact Senate prediction, I somewhat disagree with some of the states for the Presidential and some of the House seats on how you have them going, but in terms of the outcomes on who wins the presidency and House I have the same prediction.
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Level 81
Nov 4, 2024
Which ones in particular? For the presidential race, I'm most unsure about Nevada and Michigan.

The House races were definitely trickier to factor. I'm most unsure about Arizona's 6th and California's 13th. I originally had Washington's 3rd as a Republican flip, but after some input changed it.

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Level 77
Nov 4, 2024
Yeah the House races are definitely much harder to decide this election so can't fault you too much on that but I see Mark Garcia keeping his seat in that upper LA County district and I see Nick Begich flipping Alaska at least. As for the presidency, I have a hard time seeing Nevada going for Trump if Arizona is going to Harris, I see it more likely both voting in unison or voting for the vice versa where Nevada goes to Harris but Arizona goes to Trump. Otherwise the rest of the map is very plausible while I see Wisconsin going for Harris while Pennsylvania is the true tossup for me.
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Level 81
Nov 4, 2024
Garcia is reasonable, but Peltola being unseated is an extremely hot take. I'm certain Alaskan independents are willing to vote for her a second time.

As for AZ / NV, that's probably true. Nevada has been trending right recently, though, as has Arizona to the left. I think it's possible they'll vote differently, if only by an extremely small margin.

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Level 68
Nov 4, 2024
This seems well-researched and also pretty accurate. It looks like it'll come right down to the wire this time
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Level 68
Nov 4, 2024
imagine if we got an exact 269-269 draw. That'd be insane!

in that case, there could possibly be a President Trump with a VP Walz, if I'm not mistaken.

Extremely unlikely but imagine what would happen...

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Level 81
Nov 4, 2024
Assuming every congressman voted along party lines, such would be the result. I figure some sort of compromise would prevent that from happening, though.
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Level 78
Nov 4, 2024
Oh, I had no idea Vermont had a Republican governor!
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Level 81
Nov 4, 2024
Since they're only beholden to their local party branches, governorships tend to be a lot more flexible. Kansas and Kentucky have Democratic governors, while Virginia has a Republican one, for example.
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Level 77
Nov 4, 2024
Vermont and a lot of New England in general tends to be much more Republican on the local and statewide level but solidly Democrat on the federal level
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Level 41
Nov 4, 2024
Very fair and good predictions- I mean Pennsylvania is what they are really pushing for in campaigns and I keep getting tons of texts from both sides telling me to donate to "save Pennsylvania" so i would agree completely that Pennsylvania will be a major deciding factor.
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Level 65
Nov 5, 2024
very interesting to see how this will go
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Level 68
Nov 5, 2024
So far, you seem to be correct in all but North Carolina, which is swinging blue. The next round of results start to come in in ten minutes though, so we'll see how this comment ages
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Level 81
Nov 5, 2024
It's too early to trust the numbers from any big state. A blue North Carolina is possible, I suppose, just very unlikely (especially with a red Georgia).
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Level 68
Nov 6, 2024
Well that comment aged terribly
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Level 63
Nov 5, 2024
ayyo ayyo ayyo
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Level 67
Nov 6, 2024
bro had a vision on arizona
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Level 78
Nov 6, 2024
Congrats, you did it lol. Only difference is that Michigan looks red now and Arizona is looking red rn, though Phoenix's votes aren't counted yet so it could go blue.
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Level 67
Nov 6, 2024
Also senate going way more red than everyone expected I think, and idk about house
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Level 61
Nov 6, 2024
I suppose your predictions were quite close to the actual results! Good job!
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Level 45
Dec 4, 2024
Your prediction was close this time!