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Below the lineCalifornia: Becerra vs. HiltonBecerra+18.715 polls
2026 governor

California governor average

Becerra vs. Hilton. Becerra leads by 18.7 points in the On Point average of 15 public polls: a robust LOWESS fit through every poll, weighted by a 15.8 day recency half life, sample size, voter screen and pollster grade, with three bisquare passes that weigh down outliers.

15 polls10 pollstersUpdated Oct 19, 202630 days −0.3Forecast D +35.5 · open the racePublic JSON
Becerra54.7
MarginBecerra+18.7
Hilton36.0
Newest 15 polls
The average over time
25%30%35%40%45%50%55%60%65%JunJulAugSepOct54.7Becerra36.0Hilton
The line is the On Point average: a robust LOWESS fit through the polls, weighted by recency, sample, voter screen and pollster grade, refit three times so outliers count for lessDot size is each poll's weight todayHover or use the arrow keys to read any day

What moves the average today

Share of today's weight
Manhattan InstituteOct 1 · 1,000 LV · NR16%Becerra+19.0
PPICSep 10 · 1,103 LV · NR16%Becerra+22.0
Independent Voter ProjectOct 2 · 2,906 LV · NR15%Becerra+10.0
Emerson CollegeOct 19 · 1,000 LV · Gold14%Becerra+27.0
Independent Voter ProjectSep 28 · 2,906 LV · NR13%Becerra+10.0
UC Berkeley Citrin Center/TrueDot/PoliticoSep 14 · 1,983 LV · B11%Becerra+18.0
Berkeley IGSSep 20 · 4,512 LV · NR9.1%Becerra+25.0
David Wolfson for Hilton (R)Oct 2 · 1,020 RV · NR2.8%Becerra+5.6
Every other poll together: 2.9%

Each poll's weight is its sample size, voter screen, pollster grade and age, with a 15.8 day half life, and those weights are the kernel of a robust LOWESS fit: a local line read at the day itself, with three bisquare passes that weigh down any poll far from the rest. No single poll can carry more than 15 percent. Gold Standard pollsters, On Point Polling, Big Data Poll, The Honest Poll, Emerson, Cygnal, Quantus Insights, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, carry the top grade. Rasmussen Reports and ActiVote are not counted. Trafalgar and InsiderAdvantage are marked Lean R and Impact Research Lean D. The tables show every poll as published; the average counts a lean firm's poll moved the other way by its measured lean against other polls of the same races, and the chart shows that move as a hollow dot for the poll as published joined to the filled dot the average counts: Trafalgar 3.8 points right over 35 polls, InsiderAdvantage 4.6 points right over 42 polls, Impact Research 0.0 points left over 0 polls.

All polls

15 of 15
On Point averageOct 19, 202615 polls54.736.0Becerra+18.7100%
Emerson CollegeGoldOct 19, 261,000LV6033Becerra+27.014.1%
Independent Voter ProjectNROct 2, 262,906LV4838Becerra+10.015.1%
David Wolfson for Hilton (R)NROct 2, 261,020RV4640Becerra+5.62.8%
Manhattan InstituteNROct 1, 261,000LV5738Becerra+19.015.9%
Independent Voter ProjectNRSep 28, 262,906LV4838Becerra+10.013.0%
Berkeley IGSNRSep 20, 264,512LV5833Becerra+25.09.1%
SurveyUSAC+Sep 20, 26742LV5533Becerra+22.02.2%
UC Berkeley Citrin Center/TrueDot/PoliticoBSep 14, 261,983LV5436Becerra+18.011.3%
PPICNRSep 10, 261,103LV6038Becerra+22.015.8%
David Wolfson for Hilton (R)NRAug 18, 26912RV4941Becerra+8.20.1%
Berkeley IGSNRAug 9, 262,310LV5537Becerra+18.00.6%
PPICNRJul 6, 261,003LV6136Becerra+25.00%
Voter sample
Becerra+18.7
15 polls in the average