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U.S. House · Updated Oct 9

Nebraska's 1st District

Mike Flood win chance

>99%

Typical margin: Flood by 18.5

Republican

Christopher Backemeyer 1%Mike Flood 99%

Who's running

Mike FloodRepublican · Incumbent
Christopher BackemeyerDemocrat

The numbers behind it

Cook Political ReportAs of Sep 23, 2026Solid R
Money raisedFEC, through Jun 30, 2026Flood $2.4MBackemeyer $592K
Campaign money

Mike Flood

Raised $2.4M · $1.6M cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Christopher Backemeyer

Raised $592K · $291K cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Our model counts the money gap as worth 0.6 points to Mike Flood. Even a 10× gap is worth at most 1.5.

Other filers in this race raised $170K in total.

Candidates' own committees only, from fec.gov. Third-quarter reports are due Oct 15.

How the numbers moved
  1. Sep 23Cook Political Report: Solid RCook Political Report
  2. Jun 30Christopher Backemeyer had raised $592KFEC filing
  3. Jun 30Mike Flood had raised $2.4MFEC filing
How we got this number

We blend the polling average (when there is one) with the race's fundamentals: past results, incumbency, the national mood and the money. Then we play the election out 40,000 times, with polling misses that move every race together, and count how often each side wins.

90% of the model's 40,000 simulated elections land between R+30.6 and R+6.1.

No public polls yet, so this forecast rests on the fundamentals alone, with a wider range.

Our method ›