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Below the lineIowa: Sand vs. LahnSand+6.622 polls
2026 governor

Iowa governor average

Sand vs. Lahn. Sand leads by 6.6 points in the On Point average of 22 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.

22 polls15 pollstersUpdated Oct 21, 202630 days +0.6Forecast D +10.4 · open the racePublic JSON
Sand51.6
MarginSand+6.6
Lahn45.0
Newest 22 polls
The average over time
38%40%42%44%46%48%50%52%54%56%58%JulAugSepOct51.6Sand45.0Lahn
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
Fox News/Beacon Research and Shaw & CompanySep 28 · 1,008 LV · A++17%Sand+9.0
Emerson College/Nexstar MediaOct 6 · 650 LV · Gold15%Sand+4.0
On Point PollingOct 21 · 491 LV · Gold15%Sand+4.7
New York Times/SienaOct 1 · 606 LV · Gold11%Sand+11.0
New York Times/SienaSep 30 · 600 LV · Gold7.8%Sand+11.0
Suffolk UniversityOct 4 · 500 LV · B+6.4%Sand+12.0
YouGovOct 12 · 2,245 LV · C5.7%Sand+6.0
co/efficient (R)Oct 19 · 863 LV · C+5.4%Sand+4.0
Every other poll together: 17%

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

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On Point averageOct 21, 202622 polls51.645.0Sand+6.6100%
On Point PollingGoldOct 21, 26491LV5247Sand+4.714.7%
co/efficient (R)C+Oct 19, 26863LV4945Sand+4.05.4%
Cook Political Report/GS Strategy Group and New River StrategiesNROct 13, 26602LV5443Sand+11.05.3%
YouGovCOct 12, 262,245LV5044Sand+6.05.7%
National Public AffairsNROct 12, 26678LV5045Sand+5.04.5%
Marist CollegeCOct 11, 26512LV5245Sand+7.01.9%
Emerson College/Nexstar MediaGoldOct 6, 26650LV4945Sand+4.015.5%
CNN/SSRSCOct 5, 26801LV5142Sand+9.00.9%
Suffolk UniversityB+Oct 4, 26500LV5543Sand+12.06.4%
New York Times/SienaGoldOct 1, 26606LV5241Sand+11.011.1%
New York Times/SienaGoldSep 30, 26600LV5241Sand+11.07.8%
Fox News/Beacon Research and Shaw & CompanyA++Sep 28, 261,008LV5344Sand+9.016.5%
Voter sample
Sand+6.6
22 polls in the average