The Governor · CaliforniaOpen seat
Projected turnout: 10,656,368 votes · model estimate, not counted votes.
Displayed shares include the model's Other-vote allowance and therefore add to 100%. Interval endpoints are the model's 10th and 90th percentiles, not a polling margin of error.
SURE — · not yet rateable
How reliable is the evidence behind this race's number — not who wins. A safe seat with no polls can score low while its forecast is easy.
No public poll of this race has been fielded yet. SURE rates poll evidence, so it has nothing to rate here — this is an absence of evidence, not a judgement that the evidence is weak.
Limited evidence: zero polls. The fitted race-error distribution widens automatically; no manual score penalty or race override is applied.
| Effective poll evidence | 0.00 |
|---|---|
| Race-specific error SD | 6.1 points |
| Historically calibrated 80% half-range | ±7.5 |
| Model treatment | provisional widen-only chamber fallback |
| ✓ Fundamentals✓ Environment✗ Polls✗ Money (FEC)✓ Roster settled | |
SURE v3 — historically calibrated evidence-conditioned uncertainty · generated 2026-07-27. SURE rates the EVIDENCE behind a race's number, not the outcome: a safe seat with no polls can score low while its forecast is easy. Never a second win probability. It changes only idiosyncratic uncertainty, never the center. Senate marginal intervals are historically calibrated under the stated 0-120 day assumptions; House/Governor conditioning is provisional and widen-only until chamber-specific history passes the same gates.
County by county
Counties colored by the projected margin — the 2024 result shifted by the state's projected swing, summing exactly to the forecast above. Hover a county for its numbers.
| County | Margin | Xavier Becerra | Steve Hilton | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | D+20.5 | 1,489,168 | 975,494 | 2,504,738 |
| San Diego | D+7.6 | 526,316 | 450,569 | 992,769 |
| Orange | R+7.2 | 425,898 | 493,594 | 934,443 |
| Riverside | R+13.7 | 267,558 | 354,093 | 631,759 |
| San Bernardino | R+17.7 | 206,353 | 297,175 | 511,715 |
| Santa Clara | D+32.1 | 328,992 | 167,079 | 504,137 |
| Alameda | D+47.2 | 327,464 | 115,305 | 449,968 |
| Sacramento | D+11.3 | 241,856 | 192,204 | 441,118 |
| Contra Costa | D+29.5 | 227,304 | 122,326 | 355,315 |
| San Francisco | D+61.4 | 216,289 | 50,089 | 270,709 |
| Ventura | D+5.9 | 135,746 | 120,472 | 260,384 |
| San Mateo | D+43.7 | 157,703 | 60,779 | 222,035 |
All 58 counties, largest projected vote pool first. Projected: the 2024 result shifted by the state's projected swing, summing exactly to the forecast above. Model estimate, not counted votes.
State of the race
Call the Map currently has Becerra ahead of Hilton by D+9.7, with a 96 in 100 chance to win. This is an open seat. That result would keep the seat with Democrats. No current nominee-matched poll average is available, so the forecast is leaning on the non-polling evidence shown below.
Newsom term-limited; Becerra advanced from the June top-two.
- CTM forecast
- Solid D hold · 96 in 100
- Seat
- Open · projected hold
- Forecast range
- D+2.6 to D+16.9
How the race is moving
96%D win probability today
Since the Jul 21 edition: margin 10.5 pts toward R · win probability -4 pts D
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How the margin was built
Five contributions, summing to the forecast D+9.7. Every model adjustment is published here — including candidate-quality shifts. Read how the whole margin is built →
TWIN neighbours
TWIN means Typology-Weighted Inference from Neighbors, Call the Map’s comparable-unit matching engine for any kind of race. It borrows poll residuals only—never centers, terrain, or outcomes. Similarity is demographic and behavioural, not geographic, and each contribution decays with similarity distance. Borrowed evidence always has lower precision than a race’s own polling.
Signals at a glance
- 2024 presidential
- D+20.1
- Cook PVI
- D+12.0
- Ratings consensus
- Cook: Solid D · Sabato: Safe D · Inside Elections: Solid D
Recent polling
No polls yet for this race — the forecast rests on fundamentals only (partisan lean, fundraising, incumbency).