ManifoldPlay moneyPoliticsDevelopingUpdated 11m ago

Will a US House seat flip from Democrat to Republican in a 2027 special election?

As of Oct 21, 2026, 11:53 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 23.8% (down from 25.0% 24 hours earlier). It had 100 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 2K mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
23.8%
−1.2 percentage points
over 24 hours25.0% → 23.8%

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, with only a few recent trades.

Price historyManifold

Source: ProbCast snapshots (Manifold)

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Moderate

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

Thin

Pool liquidity

2K mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

100 mana

Total volume

100 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Too few trades
100%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

1

Trades

1

Largest order

100 mana

100 mana traded across these 1 trades.

Too few recent trades to say who is setting this price.

Recent trade activity$100 traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2027 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 22, 12:04 AM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±20 pts.

Thin marketLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Thin book and/or wide spread.

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
12Low
Where the price path tends to go next437 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet98%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting1%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life ~15h
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Resolving soon.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H-1.224H-1.27D-1.2

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