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Below the lineMinnesota: Flanagan vs. TafoyaFlanagan+5.513 polls
2026 Senate

Minnesota Senate average

Flanagan vs. Tafoya. Flanagan leads by 5.5 points in the On Point average of 13 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.

13 polls12 pollstersUpdated Oct 15, 202630 days +1.8Forecast D +8.8 · open the racePublic JSON
Flanagan48.5
MarginFlanagan+5.5
Tafoya43.0
Newest 13 polls
The average over time
38%40%42%44%46%48%50%52%54%56%Aug 20Aug 27Sep 3Sep 10Sep 17Sep 24Oct 1Oct 8Oct 1548.5Flanagan43.0Tafoya
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 todayHollow dot: a lean firm's poll as published; the filled dot is where the average counts it, after its measured lean is taken offHover or use the arrow keys to read any day

What moves the average today

Share of today's weight
InsiderAdvantageSep 29 · 1,200 LV · A+ · R lean, counted Flanagan+5.6 in the average16%Flanagan+1.0
Trafalgar Group (R)Oct 15 · 1,079 LV · A- · R lean, counted Flanagan+7.3 in the average16%Flanagan+3.5
Quantus InsightsSep 10 · 720 LV · Gold16%Flanagan+4.0
Big Data PollSep 30 · 622 LV · Gold15%Flanagan+2.2
GQR (D)Oct 4 · 800 LV · NR13%Flanagan+9.0
KSTP/SurveyUSAOct 12 · 650 LV · C+8.8%Flanagan+3.0
TIPP Insights (R)Sep 2 · 1,201 LV · A8.4%Flanagan+2.0
co/efficient (R)Sep 15 · 833 LV · C+2.6%Flanagan+1.0
Every other poll together: 3.9%

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

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On Point averageOct 15, 202613 polls48.543.0Flanagan+5.5100%
Trafalgar Group (R)A-Lean ROct 15, 261,079LV4845Flanagan+3.515.8%
KSTP/SurveyUSAC+Oct 12, 26650LV4542Flanagan+3.08.8%
Mason-Dixon for the Star TribuneD-Oct 7, 26800LV4743Flanagan+4.00.6%
Morning ConsultC-Oct 7, 261,000RV4541Flanagan+4.01.2%
GQR (D)NROct 4, 26800LV5344Flanagan+9.013.3%
Big Data PollGoldSep 30, 26622LV4644Flanagan+2.215.5%
InsiderAdvantageA+Lean RSep 29, 261,200LV4645Flanagan+1.016.0%
co/efficient (R)C+Sep 15, 26833LV4342Flanagan+1.02.6%
KSTP/SurveyUSAC+Sep 14, 26654LV4242Even1.6%
Quantus InsightsGoldSep 10, 26720LV4844Flanagan+4.015.6%
TIPP Insights (R)ASep 2, 261,201LV4442Flanagan+2.08.4%
Deep Root Analytics (R)NRAug 18, 26597RV5045Flanagan+5.00.2%
Voter sample
Flanagan+5.5
13 polls in the average