North Carolina Senate 2026 — Odds & Model Forecast
What the prediction markets imply for North Carolina Senate 2026, next to the Scopes Poll Composite: the median of independent forecast models.
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Reading the table: “not listed” means that venue carries no contract for this race; “—” means a contract exists but has no price yet.
| Outcome | Kalshi | Polymarket | Scopes Fair Value | Scopes Divergence |
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| Republican | 5.7% | 4.5% | 8.2% | 2.5 pts |
Model breakdown (2)
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| Democratic | 94.3% | 95.5% | 91.9% | 2.4 pts |
Model breakdown (2)
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How the market has moved
The prediction-market price (Kalshi, Polymarket) against the Scopes Poll Composite over time, for Democratic. Sampled coarser early, finer as the race nears.
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How the Scopes Fair Value is set
When a single weight-eligible forecast model publishes a probability for an outcome, its forecast is the Scopes Fair Value. With two or more, the Scopes Poll Composite is their median (median, not mean: one outlier model can't swing it). The models:
- Decision Desk HQ · Decision Desk HQ · DDHQ's model incorporates prediction-market prices among its inputs.
- Election Statsheet · Election Statsheet
- Scopes Poll Average · Scopes · Median of qualifying public polls (rules-based); margin → P(win) via a versioned sigma schedule.
Earlier series collected from additional sources are retained in the archive and excluded from the composite.
- Scopes Fair Value :
- an independent probability estimate computed from the Scopes Poll Composite: the median of independent election-forecast models.
- Scopes Divergence :
- the difference between the market price and the Scopes Fair Value.
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