🚨 BREAKING NEWS: US midterms: Prediction markets favor Democrats in key crypto races
Kalshi and Polymarket price a 75% chance of a Democratic sweep, days after markets misjudged Brazil’s runoff.
As Americans across the country head to the polls for the US midterm elections Tuesday, prediction market traders have spent months wagering on the outcome. According to an analysis by The Washington Post, nearly $1.9 billion in election-related contracts had traded on Kalshi and Polymarket as of Monday, marking record trading activity for a midterm election cycle.
Markets on both platforms favor Democrats winning control of Congress, with a Democratic sweep priced at75%on Kalshi and75.5%on Polymarket as of 4:30 p.m. UTC. Kalshi traders gave Democrats a93%chance of taking the House and a75%chance of winning the Senate, while Polymarket priced those outcomes at94.5%and75.5%, respectively.
The vote comes nine days after prediction markets failed to anticipate the outcome of Brazil’s presidential election, with Flávio Bolsonaro favored at roughly 80% the day before incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the runoff. Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour reportedly cautioned that “a 5% probability doesn’t mean it won’t happen,” according to CNBC.
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Kalshi and Polymarket price a 75% chance of a Democratic sweep, days after markets misjudged Brazil’s runoff.
As Americans across the country head to the polls for the US midterm elections Tuesday, prediction market traders have spent months wagering on the outcome. According to an analysis by The Washington Post, nearly $1.9 billion in election-related contracts had traded on Kalshi and Polymarket as of Monday, marking record trading activity for a midterm election cycle.
Markets on both platforms favor Democrats winning control of Congress, with a Democratic sweep priced at75%on Kalshi and75.5%on Polymarket as of 4:30 p.m. UTC. Kalshi traders gave Democrats a93%chance of taking the House and a75%chance of winning the Senate, while Polymarket priced those outcomes at94.5%and75.5%, respectively.
The vote comes nine days after prediction markets failed to anticipate the outcome of Brazil’s presidential election, with Flávio Bolsonaro favored at roughly 80% the day before incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the runoff. Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour reportedly cautioned that “a 5% probability doesn’t mean it won’t happen,” according to CNBC.
🔗 [READ FULL HERE](https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-midterm-prediction-markets?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound)
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