PolymarketPoliticsDevelopingUpdated 5m ago

Will Xavier Becerra win the California Governor Election in 2026?

As of Nov 2, 2026, 4:51 PM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 98.3% (little changed over 24 hours). It had $67.1K traded in the past 24 hours, $289.3K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 0.1 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as strong.

Market probability
98.3%
Little changed over 24 hours
Resolving soon

Deep, easy-to-trade market, with broad trading across many accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Strong

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?

DeepTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$289.3K

Bid-ask spread

0.1 pts

24h volume

$67.1K

Total volume

$3.1M

The visible order book runs out before the price would rise 5 pts — little resting money above the current price.

Lots of money on the book and a tight spread — a single ordinary order can't move this price much.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Broad participation
20%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

64

Trades

200

over 25h

Largest order

$17.1K

$84.3K traded across these 200 trades (last 25h).

Many independent accounts traded — the price reflects a crowd, not one trader.

Recent trade activity$84.3K traded

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

What this market actually measures

This market will resolve to according to the candidate who wins the 2026 California gubernatorial election currently scheduled for November 3, 2026. If the results of the election are not confirmed by July 31, 2027, this market will resolve to "Other".

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

This market will resolve to according to the candidate who wins the 2026 California gubernatorial election currently scheduled for November 3, 2026. If the results of the election are not confirmed by July 31, 2027, this market will resolve to "Other". The resolution source for this market is the Associated Press, Fox News, and NBC. This market will resolve once all three sources call the race for the same candidate. If all three sources haven’t called the race in this state for the same candidate, this market will resolve based on official certification.

What could move this market next?

  • The scheduled event takes placeNovember 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET

    The contract resolves on the event's outcome.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Nov 2, 4:57 PM 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: high · expected error ±8 pts.

Trading normallyLegacy movement classifier: watch

What's happening

medium classifier confidence
Trading normally

Liquid, two-sided, and calm. The current price reads as settled consensus — the latest print is a reasonable summary of what the market believes.

  • Liquid, two-sided, and calm — price behaving as settled consensus

The latest price is a usable but caveated read — weigh it with the market state.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
43Medium
Where the price path tends to go next539 observed
  • Stable consensus95%
  • Trend continuation3%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting2%

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

DurabilityHigh· half-life —
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Quote-driven.

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)1H0.06H0.024H0.07D0.0

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