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Below the lineKansas: Holscher vs. MastersonMasterson+5.37 polls
2026 governor

Kansas governor average

Holscher vs. Masterson. Masterson leads by 5.3 points in the On Point average of 7 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.

7 polls6 pollstersUpdated Oct 21, 202630 days +1.0Forecast D +2.6 · open the racePublic JSON
Holscher44.8
MarginMasterson+5.3
Masterson50.1
Newest 7 polls
The average over time
40%42%44%46%48%50%52%54%56%Aug 19Aug 26Sep 2Sep 9Sep 16Sep 23Sep 30Oct 7Oct 14Oct 2144.8Holscher50.1Masterson
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
New York Times/Siena CollegeSep 30 · 605 LV · Gold18%Masterson+5.0
Emerson College / NexstarSep 16 · 750 LV · Gold17%Masterson+7.0
YouGovOct 4 · 2,255 LV · C17%Masterson+3.0
co/efficient (R)Sep 10 · 915 LV · C+16%Masterson+8.0
On Point PollingOct 21 · 479 LV · Gold16%Masterson+6.5
Global Strategy Group (D)Sep 16 · 800 LV · A-9.6%Holscher+3.0
Global Strategy Group (D)Aug 16 · 600 LV · A-5.7%Holscher+1.0

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

7 of 7
On Point averageOct 21, 20267 polls44.850.1Masterson+5.3100%
On Point PollingGoldOct 21, 26479LV4653Masterson+6.516.2%
YouGovCOct 4, 262,255LV4447Masterson+3.017.1%
New York Times/Siena CollegeGoldSep 30, 26605LV4449Masterson+5.017.7%
Emerson College / NexstarGoldSep 16, 26750LV4451Masterson+7.017.4%
Global Strategy Group (D)A-Sep 16, 26800LV4946Holscher+3.09.6%
co/efficient (R)C+Sep 10, 26915LV4351Masterson+8.016.3%
Global Strategy Group (D)A-Aug 16, 26600LV4746Holscher+1.05.7%
Voter sample
Masterson+5.3
7 polls in the average