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Below the lineNew Hampshire: Pappas vs. SununuPappas+7.722 polls
2026 Senate

New Hampshire Senate average

Pappas vs. Sununu. Pappas leads by 7.7 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 12, 202630 days +5.9Forecast D +10.4 · open the racePublic JSON
Pappas50.4
MarginPappas+7.7
Sununu42.7
Newest 22 polls
The average over time
34%36%38%40%42%44%46%48%50%52%54%MayJunJulAugSepOct50.4Pappas42.7Sununu
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
National Public AffairsOct 12 · 600 LV · NR16%Pappas+7.0
YouGovOct 5 · 1,520 LV · C16%Pappas+8.0
Saint Anselm College for AARPSep 29 · 1,042 LV · C+16%Pappas+7.0
New York Times/Siena UniversitySep 22 · 613 LV · Gold15%Pappas+5.0
InsiderAdvantage (R)Sep 17 · 1,200 LV · A+ · R lean, counted Pappas+12.6 in the average15%Pappas+8.0
Trafalgar Group (R)Sep 27 · 1,082 LV · A- · R lean, counted Pappas+10.7 in the average15%Pappas+6.9
University of New HampshireSep 21 · 1,418 LV · C-4.1%Pappas+8.0
co/efficient (R)Sep 11 · 958 LV · C+1.3%Even
Every other poll together: 1.9%

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 12, 202622 polls50.442.7Pappas+7.7100%
National Public AffairsNROct 12, 26600LV5043Pappas+7.016.3%
YouGovCOct 5, 261,520LV5143Pappas+8.016.1%
Saint Anselm College for AARPC+Sep 29, 261,042LV5144Pappas+7.015.7%
Trafalgar Group (R)A-Lean RSep 27, 261,082LV4741Pappas+6.914.7%
New York Times/Siena UniversityGoldSep 22, 26613LV5045Pappas+5.015.1%
University of New HampshireC-Sep 21, 261,418LV5042Pappas+8.04.1%
InsiderAdvantage (R)A+Lean RSep 17, 261,200LV4840Pappas+8.014.8%
co/efficient (R)C+Sep 11, 26958LV4646Even1.3%
Fabrizio, Lee & Associates (R)AAug 30, 26600LV3637Sununu+1.01.1%
University of New HampshireC-Aug 24, 261,878LV4345Sununu+2.00.2%
Saint Anselm CollegeC+Aug 18, 261,411LV4841Pappas+7.00.7%
Peak Insights (R)NRJun 27, 26500LV4342Pappas+1.00%
Voter sample
Pappas+7.7
22 polls in the average