ManifoldPlay moneyPoliticsDevelopingUpdated 5m ago

Will the Democrats win the 2026 Texas Senate Election?

As of Oct 16, 2026, 3:11 AM ET, Manifold priced this market at 61.0% (little changed over 24 hours). It had 54.3 mana traded in the past 24 hours and 100 mana of pool liquidity. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as moderate.

Market probability
61.0%
Little changed over 24 hours

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — thin market where small orders can move the price, traded by a small group of accounts.

Price historyManifold

Source: Manifold price history

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

100 mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

54.3 mana

Total volume

378.5 mana

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

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
47%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

5

Trades

110

over 38 days

Largest order

50 mana

262.1 mana traded across these 110 trades (last 38 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$262.1 traded

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

What this market actually measures

Resolves yes if Democrats win the Texas Senate Seat election in 2026. Current primary candidates include Crockett and Talarico on the Democratic side and Cornyn, Paxton and Bell on the Republican side.

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Resolves yes if Democrats win the Texas Senate Seat election in 2026. Current primary candidates include Crockett and Talarico on the Democratic side and Cornyn, Paxton and Bell on the Republican side. (Identical market to: source market)

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesNovember 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM ET

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

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 16, 3:16 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

low 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
10Low
Where the price path tends to go next431 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet98%

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 Stale price.

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)1H0.06H0.024H-0.37D-0.3

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