2026 House Live
National generic ballot
A daily weighted average of every public House generic-ballot poll — recency decay, sample-size sigmoid, likely-voter screen, and pollster-grade weighting. 282 polls · updated Aug 17
Voter sample
Democrats
50.2%
Republicans
43.2%
D+7.0Margin
DemocratsevenRepublicans
Average over time
SpreadMargin over time
All polls 282 of 282
| EmersonB+ | Aug 17, 26 | 1,000LV | 51 | 43 | D+8.0 |
| Economist/YouGovC | Aug 17, 26 | 1,450RV | 46 | 39 | D+7.0 |
| Reuters/IpsosC | Aug 17, 26 | 876RV | 41 | 36 | D+5.0 |
| Echelon InsightsB | Aug 17, 26 | 1,002LV | 50 | 45 | D+5.0 |
| Morning ConsultC- | Aug 16, 26 | 29,719LV | 46 | 42 | D+4.0 |
| Financial TimesNR | Aug 11, 26 | 1,857LV | 51 | 45 | D+6.0 |
| Economist/YouGovC | Aug 10, 26 | 1,420RV | 46 | 40 | D+6.0 |
| CygnalC+ | Aug 7, 26 | 1,500LV | 49 | 42 | D+7.0 |
| Quantus InsightsGold | Aug 4, 26 | 1,048LV | 49 | 43 | D+6.0 |
| RMG ResearchC+ | Aug 4, 26 | 2,000RV | 47 | 45 | D+2.0 |
| Economist/YouGovC | Aug 3, 26 | 1,473RV | 46 | 42 | D+4.0 |
| Reuters/IpsosC | Aug 3, 26 | 3,542RV | 42 | 37 | D+5.0 |