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Races · house · 2024 · New Mexico
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Melanie Stansbury vs Steve Jones

Safe DD +17.5 forecast· 0 polls · 0 markets
Model's final pre-election call · win probabilitypoliagg-v34 · final pre-election call
99% Stansbury (D)
1% Jones (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Model's predicted final margin D +17.5 · 80% CI D+5.5 → D+29.5
Actual result D+12.8 · backtest (race already called)
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
0.0%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
no recent coverage
Where this race stands
Verified

Lean D · model 99% D

No recent polls or markets for this race. PVI baseline (D+7) suggests Lean D.

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts D+17.5 with an 80% CI ranging from D+5.5 (10th pctile) to D+29.5 (90th pctile), giving D a 99% chance of winning.

CITATIONS · lean-d
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
D +17.5
80% CI: D +5.5D +29.5 · win prob 99%
R+30R+15TIEDD+15D+30
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used0
Days to electionpassed
Actual resultD+12.8
Residual σ6.00pt
Generated7/1/2026

Endorsements · 0 total

Source · Wikipedia · 2 candidates with no endorsements yet
DMelanie Stansbury0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.
RSteve Jones0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing 2024-10-18
Melanie StansburyH2NM01144 ↗
Receipts
$1.4M
Disburse
$1.2M
Cash on hand
$145.7K
Debts
$0
Lawyers / law firms$7.6K
Education$7.2K
Govt employees$5.4K
SINGLETON SCHREIBER LLP$7.6K
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$7.2K
LAMB ENTERPRISE GROUP$6.6K
CALCULEX INC.$6.6K
THE RING GROUP$6.6K
Steve JonesOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$217.0K
Disburse
$191.4K
Cash on hand
$25.6K
Debts
$192.6K
No industry data.
DANIELS MANUFACTURING$3.3K
ABO EMPIRE, LLC$500

Outside spending · independent expenditures

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · 24/48-hr IE reports
IE total
$101.9K
D side
$101.2K · 99%
R side
$700 · 1%
Top spender
PROJECT 218
For / against split
For Stansbury $101.2K
Against Stansbury $700
SpenderSideAmountShareTarget
PROJECT 218D$101.1K99%for Melanie Stansbury
NEW MEXICO STRONG FUNDR$7001%against Melanie Stansbury
GIVEGREEN UNITED ACTIOND$55.010%for Melanie Stansbury
SIERRA CLUB INDEPENDENT ACTIOND$100%for Melanie Stansbury

Editorial ratings · 5 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe D5
CNalysis
Safe D
Nov 15
Cook Political Report
Safe D
Feb 1
Elections Daily
Safe D
Oct 9
Inside Elections
Safe D
Mar 9
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe D
Feb 22

Demographic crosstabs

age · education · race · gender
No demographic crosstabs published for this race yet. Most pollsters release only topline numbers; subgroup breakdowns (age, education, race, gender) appear here when a pollster publishes them.
Rating timeline
Jun 22, 2026Safe Dmodel
May 15, 2026Likely Dmodel
May 11, 2026Safe Dmodel
Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 0deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested0 platformsnone listed
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2024-10-18
Endorsementsnothing to sync
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks