About This Blog

Welcome! My name is Nicolas Nevins, and I have created a mathematical formula intended to predict the results of US House Elections. I developed the formula over the past year, and it was quite accurate when retroactively applied to the 2012 and 2014 House elections (the only ones so far fully in the SuperPAC era). The formula includes many components that are believed to help predict the winner of US House races, such as fundraising, independent expenditures, partisanship of a district, and incumbency, among others. On this blog, I will publish and update my predictions for the 2016 elections.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Initial House Ratings

Here are my initial predictions for the 2016 elections:












Safe Republican (Republican has >95% chance of winning)Likely Republican (Republican has 85%-95% chance of winning)Leans Republican (Republican has 75%-85% chance of winning)Tilt Repubican (Republican has 65%-75% chance of winning)Toss-Up (Either 
side has <65% chance of 
winning)
Tilt Democrat (Democrat has 65%-75% chance of winning)Leans Democrat (Democrat has 75%-85% chance of winning)Likely Democrat (Democrat has 85%-95% chance of winning)Safe Democrat (Democrat has >95% chance of winning)

FL02 - (OPEN)FL25 - (Diaz-Balart)         AK00 - (Young)CO03 - (Tipton)CA10 - (Denham)AZ01 - (OPEN)MI01 - (OPEN)CA24 - (OPEN)FL10 - (OPEN)



MI08 - (Bishop)AZ02 - (McSally)IN09 - (OPEN)CA21 - (Valadao)FL13 - (Jolly)NE02 - (Ashford)FL26 - (Curbelo)VA04 - (OPEN)



MN03 - (Paulsen)CA49 - (Issa)MI07 - (Walberg)CA25 - (Knight)IA01 - (Blum)NY03 - (OPEN)MN02 - (OPEN)



MT00 - (Zinke)FL07 - (Mica)NY02 - (King)CO06 - (Coffman)IL10 - (Dold)NY19 - (OPEN)MN08 - (Nolan)



NC08 - (Hudson)IL12 - (Bost)NY21 - (Stefanik)FL18 - (OPEN)NJ05 - (Garrett)PA08 - (OPEN)



NJ03 - (MacArthur)MI06 - (Upton)NY23 - (Reed)
FL27 - (Ros-Lehtinen)
NV03 - (OPEN)



NY11 - (Donovan)MI11 - (Trott)VA10 - (Comstock)IA03 - (Young)NV04 - (Hardy)



OH01 - (Chabot)NC13 - (OPEN)WI08 - (OPEN)ME02 - (Poliquin)NY22 - (OPEN)



OH14 - (Joyce)NJ02 - (LoBiondo)NH01 - (Guinta)VA05 - (OPEN)



PA06 - (Costello)SC05 - (Mulvaney)NY01 - (Zeldin)



UT04 - (Love)VA02 - (OPEN)NY24 - (Katko)


PA16 - (OPEN)

TX23 - (Hurd)

All Other Seats Currently Held by Republicans

All Other Seats Currently Held by Democrats


Projected Balance of Power: Currently 247 Republicans, 188 Democrats
D Pickups: 15     Toss-Ups: 13 (1D, 12R)     Projected Change: Democrats +19
R Pickups: 1                                                   Range: Democrats +13 - Democrats +26

New Balance of Power: 228 Republicans, 207 Democrats
Range: 221-234 Republicans, 201-214 Democrats 

Map: Here is a link to a map of my predictions: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KDgHnG0fbdY/V40BXCbv8FI/AAAAAAAAANM/kIKoXugsuHE2f2_QW8KbTM8k6YJfxpqHACLcB/s1600/2016%2BHouse%2BElections.png

The map that I use is a hexagonal congressional district map, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, which is a map where every district is the same size geographically, making it possible to see districts in urban areas that cannot be distinguished under a normal congressional district map. You can read more about it here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/6/3/1389806/-Daily-Kos-Elections-presents-the-best-map-ever-of-United-States-congressional-districts

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog, 435Math, where I will be making predictions for the 2016 US House elections based off of a mathematical formula that I have created. Beginning on July 18th (once the 2nd quarter fundraising numbers are posted to the FEC), I will publish my predictions every Monday morning for each race, as well as a prediction of how many seats each party will control following the elections. In addition, throughout the week, I will begin making individual race pages and write-ups for all competitive races.