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Races · house · 2026 · North Carolina
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house · open seat

Ashley Bell vs Pat Harrigan

Safe RR +20.4 forecast · 3 months 27 days to election· 1 polls · 2 marketsLast poll 117d agoMarkets 11h agoRating today
Live model · win probabilityupdated 11h ago · poliagg-v34
5% Bell (D)
95% Harrigan (R)
R+15R+5TIEDD+5D+15
Predicted final margin R +20.4 · 80% CI R+36.5 → R+4.3 · 3 months 27 days to election
Momentum
insufficient data
Tipping-point P
3.7%
Decisive for chamber control
Market · D-side
D 13¢
Cross-platform consensus
News articles · 30d
no recent coverage
Where this race stands
Verified

Safe R · model 95% R

Polling average rates this race Safe R (R+15.0, sourced from polls).

The poliagg-v34 ensemble forecasts R+20.4 with an 80% CI ranging from R+36.5 (10th pctile) to R+4.3 (90th pctile), giving R a 95% chance of winning.

Tipping-point probability: 3.7% of simulations see this race as decisive for chamber control.

CITATIONS · safe-r · low-tipping
Forecast · poliagg-v34
Predicted final margin
R +20.4
80% CI: R +36.5R +4.3 · win prob 5%
R+45R+23TIEDD+23D+45
Quality · inputs
Data quality · medium
Polls used1
Days to election118
Residual σ12.56pt
Generated7/7/2026
Compare with other models3 models
qgbt-v1GBT (qgbt)
R +23.3
80% CI R +28.4 → R +13.4
CV MAE 8.51
bayes-v1Bayes / Kalman
R +15.0
80% CI R +20.2 → R +9.8
CV MAE 4.06
consensusMarket-implied
R +10.8
no interval
market-implied

Polling average

364044485256HARRIGAN 52.0BELL 37.0MAR '26MAR '26MAR '26
Weighted, plus each pollster's measured bias subtracted before averaging.

Prediction markets

Consensus · D 13¢1 platformupdated 11h ago
DisagreementMarkets are 25 points less bullish on D than polling. Markets 13% · polls 37%.
Cross-platform price · history
5¢10¢15¢20¢54 DAYS · D YES PRICENOWMay 14Jul 7
Per-platform · current
PlatformD YESR YES7d ΔVolvs cons
Polymarket
Will the Democratic Party win the NC-10 House seat?
13¢88¢-1¢+0

All polls · 1 results

strongpositiveinfocautionflag
DatePollster · trust signalsn · popLeanBias · trackvs ratersD · R
Mar 11Ragnar Research Partners+2For · Internal R-aligned400 · LVR-LEAN-3.4decoupled37 · 52

Endorsements · 6 total

Source · Wikipedia · 0 candidates with no endorsements yet
4Bell · 67%
Harrigan · 33%2
DAshley Bell4 endorsers
Most notable · Daily Kos
Organizations4
RPat Harrigan2 endorsers
Most notable · Donald Trump · 45th and 47th president of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)
Elected officials1
Federal 1State 0Local 0
Organizations1

Money raised · own committees

FEC Schedule E (independent expenditures) + candidate-committee totals · last filing 2026-03-03
Ashley BellH6NC10174 ↗
Receipts
$28.0K
Disburse
$24.3K
Cash on hand
$5.7K
Debts
$8.5K
No industry data.
No contributor data.
Pat HarriganOWN COMMITTEE
Receipts
$974.0K
Disburse
$586.5K
Cash on hand
$440.3K
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
$56.79
D side
$56.79 · 100%
R side
$0 · 0%
Top spender
RED WINE AND BLUE
For / against split
For Bell $56.79
SpenderSideAmountShareTarget
RED WINE AND BLUED$56.79100%for Ashley Bell

Editorial ratings · 4 raters

Cook · Sabato · Inside Elections · 538 · DDHQ et al.
Safe R4
Cook Political Report
Safe R
Jun 17
Inside Elections
Safe R
Jun 24
Sabato's Crystal Ball
Safe R
Jun 8
Split Ticket
Safe R
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 Rmodel
May 3, 2026Likely Rmodel
Verification trail
Polls verified1 / 1deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested1 platformupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2026-03-03
Endorsements9 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks