Polls from Lake Research/Tarrance Group

Lake Research/Tarrance Group has been polling since 2000 and has published 39 polls so far; the latest was on 10/10/2016.

Parties

PollsterShare (%)Date
DEM47.0%2016-10-10
REP42.0%2016-10-10

Coalitions

No polls available yet.

Accuracy at past elections

Average error 3.5 percentage points across 6 elections.

Systematic over- and understatement, per party

Mean signed difference between this pollster’s final poll and the result. A positive figure means the party was stated higher than it finished.

Party Mean difference Elections
Republican Party-3.7 percentage points6
Democratic Party-3.4 percentage points6

Per election

Election Final poll Days before Parties scored Difference
House election 2016 2016-10-10 29 2 3.3 percentage points
House election 2012 2012-10-31 6 2 2.3 percentage points
House election 2010 2010-10-19 14 2 3.8 percentage points
House election 2008 2008-10-26 9 2 4.9 percentage points
House election 2004 2004-10-31 2 2 2.6 percentage points
House election 2000 2000-11-05 2 2 4.4 percentage points

How this is measured: for each past election we take each pollster’s last poll in the 30 days before polling day and compare it, party by party, with the result. The figure is the mean absolute difference across the parties that appear in both. Only parties the pollster actually reported are counted. A late shift in opinion is not the same thing as a polling error.