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How Accurate Are Election Pundits? 2022 by the Numbers

Every checkable call named pundits made about the 2022 US elections — race winners, margins, chamber control, seat counts — graded against certified results, with a naive guess scored on the same calls beside them. Figures as of 2026-10-06; they move as results are certified and graded.

Cycle: 2026 · 2024 · 2022

Graded calls
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of 0 on the record

Pundits graded
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Pundits' accuracy
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Naive guess
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the seat's party holds it

How accurate were pundits' 2022 election predictions?

The 2022 results are not certified yet, so there is no accuracy to report. 0 checkable calls from 0 pundits are on the record so far, 0 graded; this page fills in as results are certified.

Who is the most accurate election pundit?

Ranked by MissedTakes Score — how much better than the naive guess, not how often right — across every cycle we have graded, not 2022 alone. Only records with ten or more graded articles are ranked; the full list is on the election leaderboard.
PunditScoreAccuracyGraded
1. Clay Travis+74.298.3%27
2. Erick-Woods Erickson+70.395.9%29

Cite these numbers

Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with credit and a link to this page. Please give the date — these figures move as results are certified and graded.

MissedTakes, "How Accurate Are Election Pundits? 2022 by the Numbers", missedtakes.co/elections/accuracy?cycle=2022, accessed 2026-10-06.

The tables as CSV or markdown. How each call is graded, and the naive guess it is measured against, is in the methodology; every race links to the calls behind its row.