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Republicans Favoured To Win Senate, Split Ticket Forecast

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Split Ticket has concluded, in newly published Senate ratings, that Republicans are favoured to win 51 Senate seats in November.

  • Split Ticket: “Our forecast finds Republicans favored in 51 seats, with Democrats favored in 48. In our simulations, Republicans hold the Senate 84 percent of the time.
  • The forecast supports a widely-held view that control of the Senate may ultimately come down to the Montana race, where Senator Jon Tester (R-MT) is polling behind Republican challenger Tim Sheehy. To win the race, Tester would likely have to outperform Harris by upwards of 15 points, a heavy lift considering the rarity of split-ticket voting in the highly polarised modern political environment.
  • Split Ticket concludes: “…it’s a minor miracle that virtually no battleground state’s senate seat is even that competitive at the moment — the only places Democrats are truly at risk of losing seats are in deep-red states. But that is all the GOP needs, and given the decline in ticket-splitting that has hurt red-state Democrats in the past decade, it makes sense to not bet against polarization.”

Figure 1: 2024 Senate Election Ratings

Source: Split Ticket

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