Live polling averages
2026 Polls
Every generic-ballot and presidential-approval poll we track — quality-weighted averages, competitive-race trends, a searchable poll browser, and the pollsters behind the numbers.
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How ElectIndex reads the polls
Not every poll deserves the same weight. Every survey on this page is weighted by its pollster's track record and by how recently it was taken, so one prolific low-quality shop can't drag the average around. The smoothed trend lines you see are those quality-and-recency-weighted averages — the same numbers that feed the ElectIndex forecast model.
Pollsters are scored from 0 to 3 on their historical accuracy and transparency, and each rating notes the shop's house lean. A small number of pollsters are banned outright — fabricated or blacklisted data — and never enter any average. The full ratings board, and every underlying poll, can be sorted, searched, and downloaded as CSV below.
The generic congressional ballot asks voters which party they'd back for Congress; it's the single best national read on the House environment. Presidential approval is the second pillar — it tracks how the public grades the sitting president and historically shapes midterm outcomes. Both feed the national environment behind every race rating.
The underlying poll data is sourced from The New York Times' public polling dataset; the quality weights, pollster ratings, and every average on this page are computed by ElectIndex.