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Below the lineTexas: Paxton vs. TalaricoTalarico+0.97 polls
2026 Senate

Texas Senate average

Paxton vs. Talarico. Talarico leads by 0.9 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 polls7 pollstersUpdated Mar 17, 202630 days −1.4Forecast D +2.4 · open the racePublic JSON
Paxton43.3
MarginTalarico+0.9
Talarico44.2
Newest 7 polls
The average over time
34%36%38%40%42%44%46%48%50%52%OctNovDecJan 26FebMar43.3Paxton44.2Talarico
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
Impact Research (D)Mar 17 · 900 LV · NR89%Talarico+1.0
Emerson CollegeJan 12 · 1,165 RV · Gold6.8%Even
University of Houston/YouGovJan 31 · 1,502 LV · C4.1%Paxton+2.0
Public Policy Polling (D)Mar 5 · 576 RV · D-0.6%Talarico+2.0

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 averageMar 17, 20267 polls43.344.2Talarico+0.9100%
Impact Research (D)NRMar 17, 26900LV4344Talarico+1.088.5%
Public Policy Polling (D)D-Mar 5, 26576RV4547Talarico+2.00.6%
University of Houston/YouGovCJan 31, 261,502LV4644Paxton+2.04.1%
Emerson CollegeGoldJan 12, 261,165RV4646Even6.8%
Ragnar Research Partners (R)NRNov 17, 251,000LV4444Even0%
Univ. of Houston/Texas Southern Univ.NROct 1, 251,650RV4946Paxton+3.00%
UT TylerC-Sep 24, 251,032RV3837Paxton+1.00%
Voter sample
Talarico+0.9
7 polls in the average