Pollster · Commercial firm

ReconMR

Also published as Reconnaissance Market Research.

AAPOR Transparency Initiative since May 13, 20191Research draft
Polls since 2024
8
Latest poll ended
October 8, 2026
House effect vs. other polls
D+2.4

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

ReconMR, whose website footer uses the name Reconnaissance Market Research, describes itself as a data collection and research firm with more than 30 years of experience and a call center network of more than 750 stations.2,3,4 Its website gives a headquarters in San Marcos, Texas, with offices in Austin, Houston, Corpus Christi, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.2,3 Its team page names Lyle Durbin as chief executive officer and president.5

Kind
Commercial firm2,3

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

Owns

  • HINER & Partners (2023-11–now). According to Daily Research News Online, ReconMR acquired HINER & Partners, a research firm in Santa Ana, California, in November 2023 and brought it under the ReconMR name.6
  • ComEngage (2023–now). According to Daily Research News Online, ReconMR had recently acquired ComEngage as of August 2023.7

Polls regularly for

Polls jointly with

  • Siena Research Institute (2026-01–now). ReconMR and the Siena Research Institute at Siena University announced a strategic integration in January 2026 that both describe as combining them into one organization, with ReconMR handling data collection and the institute the academic polling work; neither says how ownership is arranged.4,10

Does fieldwork for

  • Siena Research Institute. ReconMR's page on the institute says it has worked with it for years on data collection for the New York Times/Siena polls and the Siena New York poll.11

Led by

  • Lyle Durbin. Its team page lists Lyle Durbin as chief executive officer and president.5

Published with

Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first12. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service4June 4, 2026 – July 30, 2026No

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Says it does no work for parties or candidates. Its Texas Poll page and October 2026 release describe ReconMR, with the Siena Research Institute, as an independent, non-partisan research institute, and its About page lists political pollsters among its clients without naming any party or campaign. This rests on its own description.3,9,13

Of its 8 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor12.

§4How its numbers compare with other polls

Why this matters: A firm whose polls run steadily to one side of everyone else's is worth reading alongside others.

Each of its polls since the 2024 election is compared with other pollsters' polls of the same question whose field period ended within 14 days, each other pollster counted once12. The figure is the average gap, with a 95% margin. This compares it with other polls, not with the truth: the others can be the ones that are off.

Party margin
D+2.4 (±1.4) across 8 polls of the generic ballot and 2026 races, in 2 contests.

D+ means its polls showed Democrats doing better than other polls did; R+, Republicans. A figure from fewer than 5 polls isn't shown.

§5Its polls

The 8 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
October 5–October 8, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasJames Talarico 48 · Ken Paxton 44Siena Research Institute617 LV
October 5–October 8, 2026Governor · 2026 TexasGreg Abbott 48 · Gina Hinojosa 47Siena Research Institute617 LV
September 8–September 11, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasJames Talarico 49 · Ken Paxton 43Siena Research Institute614 LV
September 8–September 11, 2026Governor · 2026 TexasGina Hinojosa 49 · Greg Abbott 45 · Pat Dixon 0Siena Research Institute614 LV
July 27–July 30, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasJames Talarico 47 · Ken Paxton 43Siena Research InstituteTexas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service619 LV
July 27–July 30, 2026Governor · 2026 TexasGreg Abbott 46 · Gina Hinojosa 45 · Pat Dixon 0Siena Research InstituteTexas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service619 LV
June 1–June 4, 2026Governor · 2026 TexasGreg Abbott 49 · Gina Hinojosa 44 · Pat Dixon 0Siena Research InstituteTexas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service807 LV
June 1–June 4, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 TexasJames Talarico 47 · Ken Paxton 44Siena Research InstituteTexas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service807 LV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • No founding year was found; its pages say only that it has more than 30 years of experience.
  • No owners were named, and neither ReconMR nor the Siena Research Institute says whether the 2026 integration changed ownership.
  • The Texas Poll pages do not say who funds the poll or when the Texas A&M Bush School arrangement began or ends.
  • No standing news outlet partners were found.
  • Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.