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Races · house · 2026 · California
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California house

Safe DD +32.7 forecast · 3 months 27 days to election· 0 polls · 2 marketsMarkets 11h agoRating today
Live model · win probabilityupdated 11h ago · poliagg-v34
99% Rivas (D)
1% (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Predicted final margin D +32.7 · 80% CI D+16.6 → D+48.8 · 3 months 27 days to election
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
3.8%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
D 94¢
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
no recent coverage
Where this race stands
Verified

Safe D · model 99% D

No recent polls or markets for this race. PVI baseline (D+20) suggests Safe D.

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts D+32.7 with an 80% CI ranging from D+16.6 (10th pctile) to D+48.8 (90th pctile), giving D a 99% chance of winning.

Tipping-point probability: 3.8% of simulations see this race as decisive for chamber control.

CITATIONS · safe-d · low-tipping
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
D +32.7
80% CI: D +16.6D +48.8 · win prob 99%
R+60R+30TIEDD+30D+60
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used0
Days to election118
Residual σ12.56pt
Generated7/7/2026
Compare with other models3 models
qgbt-v1GBT (qgbt)
D +40.2
80% CI D +34.5 → D +43.6
CV MAE 8.51
bayes-v1Bayes / Kalman
D +10.5
80% CI D +8.9 → D +12.1
CV MAE 1.24
consensusMarket-implied
D +15.3
no interval
market-implied

Prediction markets

Consensus · D 94¢1 platformupdated 11h ago
Cross-platform price · history
80¢85¢90¢95¢100¢54 DAYS · D YES PRICENOWMay 14Jul 7
Per-platform · current
PlatformD YESR YES7d ΔVolvs cons
Polymarket
Will the Democratic Party win the CA-29 House seat?
94¢4¢+0¢+0

Endorsements · 17 total

Source · Wikipedia · 0 candidates with no endorsements yet
17Rivas · 100%
DLuz Rivas17 endorsers
Most notable · 314 Action
Organizations17

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing 2026-02-11
Luz RivasH4CA29141 ↗
Receipts
$591.5K
Disburse
$491.9K
Cash on hand
$363.9K
Debts
$0
No industry data.
No contributor data.

Outside spending · independent expenditures

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · 24/48-hr IE reports
IE total
$10.18
D side
$10.18 · 100%
R side
$0 · 0%
Top spender
SIERRA CLUB INDEPEN…
For / against split
For Rivas $10.18
SpenderSideAmountShareTarget
SIERRA CLUB INDEPENDENT ACTIOND$1098%for Luz Rivas
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCACY PROJECT LOS ANGELES COUNTY ACTION FUNDD$0.182%for Luz Rivas

Editorial ratings · 5 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe D5
Cook Political Report
Safe D
Jun 17
The Economist
Safe D
May 5
Inside Elections
Safe D
Jun 24
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe D
Jun 8
Split Ticket
Safe D
Jun 24

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
May 5, 2026Safe Dmodel
May 3, 2026Lean Dmodel
Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 0deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested1 platformupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2026-02-11
Endorsements17 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks