Will the Republican Party win control of the House of Representatives in 2026? [ resolved 2026-11-04 ]
Will the Democratic Party control the House after the 2026 Midterm elections?
polymarket: [C] multiple sources, no tie-break·reporting consensus methodology ›
distribution · by resolution date · marks: daily snapshot
polymarket 9 markets
| market | resolves | P(YES) | vol (24h) | vol (cum) | RCG | venue id | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party A | 2025-07-11 | 0.0% | — | — | C | 0xa06d94…cc5c | ||
| Party B | 2025-07-11 | 0.0% | — | — | C | 0xad6bb7…9060 | ||
| Party C | 2025-07-11 | 0.0% | — | — | C | 0x3f85f4…28d7 | ||
| Party D | 2025-07-11 | 0.0% | — | — | C | 0x7e2127…6290 | ||
| Party E | 2025-07-11 | 0.0% | — | — | C | 0x242c27…7265 | ||
| Party F | 2025-07-11 | 0.0% | — | — | C | 0x6b4403…7d77 | ||
| Another party | 2025-07-11 | 0.0% | — | — | C | 0xc2f2e9…8edb | ||
| The Democratic Party | 2026-11-04 | 100.0% | $64K | $4.99M | C | 0xd5d9fc…1bb4 | ||
| The Republican Party | 2026-11-04 | 0.0% | $5.5K | $4.05M | C | 0x4e4f77…1928 |
resolution architecture
| venue | proposer | source | citation | arbitration | class | analyst notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| polymarket | Whitelisted Proposers | uncommitted | not provided | Optimistic Oracle (UMA) | Other | — |
verbatim rules
polymarket
This market will resolve according to the party that controls the House of Representatives following the 2026 U.S. House elections scheduled for November 3, 2026.
House control is defined as having more than half of the voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
If the outcome of this election is ambiguous given the above rules, this market will remain open until the Speaker of the House is selected following the 2026 U.S. general election, at which point it will resolve to the party the Speaker is affiliated with at the time of their election to that position. If the elected Speaker does not caucus with any listed party this market will resolve “Other”.
Determination of which party controls the House after the 2026 U.S. House elections will be based on a consensus of credible reporting, or if there is ambiguity, final federal and/or state election authority certification or other final official determination of the 2026 election results.
platform source field
polymarket.resolutionSource → ∅ no committed source — see rules text above resolution history
| outcome | market | venue | resolved | final price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YES | Will the Democratic Party control the House after the 2026 Midterm elections? | polymarket | 2026-11-04 | 100% |
| NO | Will the Republican Party control the House after the 2026 Midterm elections? | polymarket | 2026-11-04 | 0% |
Resolution dates are the venue's settlement timestamps (2 resolved markets). Rows shown as "by [date]" carry the contract deadline: the venue no longer exposes a settlement time for them. PENDING upgrades to a final outcome on the next refresh.
recent wire items
- Republicans heavily favored to hold the House in 2026 Polymarket 95%
- The Polymarket contract on Republicans winning House control in 2026 sits at 95%, making Democratic hopes of a House flip a long shot.
- Widespread media coverage of Democratic optimism is at odds with prediction-market pricing, which strongly favors a Republican House hold.
- The companion Kalshi contract (CM-EVT-T5VXKJT451) at 71% for Republicans controlling at least one chamber is a weaker read, consistent with Senate uncertainty dampening the overall-chamber probability.
- The Polymarket Senate control contract (CM-EVT-M9WJY06T90) at 73% for one party reveals the House-Senate spread: the House is seen as far more settled than the Senate race outcome.
- Market puts long odds on GOP House control despite retreat reports Polymarket 90%
- Polymarket prices Republican House control in 2026 at 90%, a very strong favorite stance.
- News flow from Politico and AP shows Republicans retreating from battleground districts, yet the Polymarket contract is far above 50% and not moving in line with the reported pessimism.
- The gap between reported Republican pessimism and the 90% Polymarket price is the signal: either the market disagrees with inside-baseball sourcing, or the contract framing differs from the news narrative.
- Resolves via uma_oracle; check exact contract language on what constitutes 'House control', majority of seats vs. speakership could matter.
- Republicans heavily favored to win House control in 2026 Polymarket 90%
- The Polymarket contract on Republicans winning House control in 2026 is priced at 90%, a strongly favored outcome.
- Democrats blocking the Supreme Court cap amendment is a routine partisan vote consistent with the current Republican majority environment the 90% price implies.
- Trump vowing to campaign in 35 midterm races (Story 12) and the government funding bill passing bipartisanly (Story 13) add further midterm context without shifting this contract's direction.
- Resolution is tied to the official 2026 midterm election results and House seat counts, via an unspecified resolution source.
programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload
One canonical record at every surface — embedded JSON-LD, REST, MCP, and /llms.txt.
| HTML | browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (embedded JSON-LD @type: Dataset) | https://clearmarket.fyi/events/which-party-will-win-the-house-in-2026/ |
| JSON | REST API for developers | https://api.clearmarket.fyi/v1/events/which-party-will-win-the-house-in-2026 |
| MCP | agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue) | clearmarket.get_event("which-party-will-win-the-house-in-2026") |
| AGENT | AI crawler discovery index | /llms.txt |
Snapshot 2026-08-04. Venue data via Kalshi + Polymarket APIs. Editorial fields (tags, editorial_notes) are ClearMarket-drafted with AI assistance under editorial review. Derived fields (venues_covered, resolution_clarity_grade, rcg_score) computed at serve time. Full per-field map in the JSON record under field_provenance.
raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint {
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