With recounts finalized in Virginia shortly before the holidays, the dust has finally settled on the 2023 election cycle. And you know what that means: We can now unveil the winners of the 2023 Daily Kos Elections prediction contest!
As you may recall, we asked you to predict the winners of nine races—ranging from marquee top-of-the-ticket elections to downballot deep cuts—as well as the number of seats you expected Democrats to win in Virginia’s legislative elections.
Ultimately, we had an astonishing eight-way tie for first place, requiring the results of the tiebreaker round—in which we asked entrants to guess the percentage that John Whitmire and Sheila Jackson Lee would receive in the first round of Houston’s mayoral election—to separate the top four finishers from the rest of the pack.
In first place was Estquer, who had the lowest tiebreaker error score of 9.2. DCPatriot and Major Tom tied for second with a tiebreaker score of 11.0 each (a tie in the tiebreaker round! wow!), and Aspi rounded out the top four with a score of 17. All four winners will receive gift baskets from Green’s Bakery, as pictured above!
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