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2026 Balance of Power Index

Who holds Washington after the 2026 midterms. The Senate, the House and the governorships are each priced from individual race markets, then composited into a seat distribution measured against that body's majority threshold.

US Senate

35 seats are on the 2026 ballot and 65 are held over. Race markets composite into a seat distribution measured against the 51-seat majority threshold.

LIVE · 35 CONTESTED · 51 TO CONTROL · E[GOP seats] 50.0 ± 4.2
100
Total Seats
35
Contested Races
65
Holdover Seats
4ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt
Prediction Market Exchanges
35
Race PMIs
59.0%
GOP Control Probability
41.0%
Dem Control Probability
Projected Senate composition · 120th Congress
100 seats · 51 to control · 3 toss-ups
46
1
1
3
1
4
44
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Safe Dem · 46Likely Dem · 1Lean Dem · 1Toss-up · 3Lean GOP · 1Likely GOP · 4Safe GOP · 44

Full chamber — all 100 seats. The Safe bands fold in 65 seats held over from earlier cycles (not on the 2026 ballot); only the 35 contested seats appear in Race PMIs below.

P(GOP wins) by state · 35 contested · greyed = not on 2026 ballot
ALAKAZCOFLGAINKSMEMNNCNDOKPASDTXWYMOWVILNMARCAHIIAKYMIMSMTNYOHORTNUTVAWAWINESCIDNVLA
NORTHEAST CORRIDOR
VT
NH
MA
RI
CT
NJ
DE
MD
DC
PMI Heat Scale · 0 → 100
Leaning DemocratLeaning Republican
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Race PMIs

35 seats up in 2026 · 65 held over (not shown)

Each contested seat is a single-factor PMI aggregating contracts across every prediction-market exchange that lists it. Click a race to drill into its state page.

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97.8PMI

South Dakota senate 2026

Senate
SD
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$54 24h vol
97.3PMI

Idaho senate 2026

Senate
ID
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$450 24h vol
97.1PMI

Wyoming senate 2026

Senate
WY
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$47 24h vol
96.6PMI

West Virginia senate 2026

Senate
WV
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt9 Contracts$336 24h vol
96.4PMI

Oklahoma senate 2026

Senate
OK
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$12 24h vol
96.2PMI

Tennessee senate 2026

Senate
TN
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$7 24h vol
96.0PMI

Alabama senate 2026

Senate
AL
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$11 24h vol
95.9PMI

Kentucky senate 2026

Senate
KY
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$213 24h vol
95.0PMI

Montana senate 2026

Senate
MT
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt10 Contracts$517 24h vol
93.7PMI

Louisiana senate 2026

Senate
LA
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$269 24h vol
93.5PMI

Mississippi senate 2026

Senate
MS
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$1.8k 24h vol
93.4PMI

Arkansas senate 2026

Senate
AR
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$2.1k 24h vol
91.3PMI

Florida senate 2026

Senate
FL
KalshiPolymarketPredictIt6 Contracts$18.4k 24h vol
84.8PMI

Nebraska senate 2026

Senate
NE
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$23.4k 24h vol
84.6PMI

South Carolina senate 2026

Senate
SC
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$18.4k 24h vol
79.5PMI

Maine senate 2026

Senate
ME
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt21 Contracts$81.1k 24h vol
79.2PMI

Kansas senate 2026

Senate
KS
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$107.9k 24h vol
66.0PMI

Iowa senate 2026

Senate
IA
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt10 Contracts$346.5k 24h vol
58.9PMI

Michigan senate 2026

Senate
MI
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt11 Contracts$102.9k 24h vol
50.2PMI

Texas senate 2026

Senate
TX
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$194.3k 24h vol
47.9PMI

Ohio senate 2026

Senate
OH
KalshiPolymarket4 Contracts$78.3k 24h vol
36.8PMI

Alaska senate 2026

Senate
AK
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt20 Contracts$9.5k 24h vol
18.0PMI

New Hampshire senate 2026

Senate
NH
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$11.5k 24h vol
9.3PMI

Minnesota senate 2026

Senate
MN
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$28.6k 24h vol
8.5PMI

North Carolina senate 2026

Senate
NC
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$8.3k 24h vol
7.1PMI

Georgia senate 2026

Senate
GA
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$2.4k 24h vol
5.0PMI

Virginia senate 2026

Senate
VA
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$0 24h vol
3.8PMI

Illinois senate 2026

Senate
IL
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$54 24h vol
3.7PMI

Colorado senate 2026

Senate
CO
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$29 24h vol
3.1PMI

Massachusetts senate 2026

Senate
MA
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$408 24h vol
2.9PMI

New Jersey senate 2026

Senate
NJ
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$427 24h vol
2.5PMI

New Mexico senate 2026

Senate
NM
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$327 24h vol
2.5PMI

Delaware senate 2026

Senate
DE
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$0 24h vol
2.2PMI

Rhode Island senate 2026

Senate
RI
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt7 Contracts$938 24h vol
1.4PMI

Oregon senate 2026

Senate
OR
ForecastExKalshiPolymarketPredictIt8 Contracts$80 24h vol