Content # Historical FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecasts This folder contains the data behind the story [How The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast Model Works](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-fivethirtyeight-senate-forecast-model-works/). Header | Definition ---|--------- `state` | Election `year` | Year of election `candidate` | Last name `forecast_prob` | Probability of winning election per FiveThirtyEight Election Day forecast `result` | `Win` or `Loss` For archived results, see: * **2008** https://web.archive.org/web/20081106113055/http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ * **2010** http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/forecasts/senate * **2012** http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/fivethirtyeights-2012-forecast/ Context This is a dataset from [FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/) hosted on their [GitHub](https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data). Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/fivethirtyeight)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using GitHub's [API](https://developer.github.com/v3/?) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). This dataset is distributed under the [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license.