PoliticsMulti-outcomeExpires May 19, 2026
Creator

Will Austin Sidwell be the Republican nominee for AL-01?

Probability

1h

-0.1pp

24h

-0.5pp

24h Vol

$84.00

Liquidity

$2.4K

Research loop

Inspect the market

Read the move, holders, recent trades, source, and resolution risk before saving anything.

Canonical status

confidence: high

Source status (Polymarket)

active

Derived status (Orrery)

PINNED NO

Reason

YES price is near 0¢ but the market has not been officially resolved.

Treat as effectively priced-out, not settled. The market is still live until expiry.

Resolution & Risk

HIGH risk
End date
May 19, 2026
UMA status
n/a
Resolution source
Primary
to the candidate who wins the nomination for the Republican Party to contest the AL-01 congressional district seat in th
Type
Ambiguous wording
Confidence
extracted · low
Market type
Multi-outcome (neg-risk)
  • Part of a multi-outcome event (neg-risk): only one market can resolve YES.
  • Market expires May 19, 2026 — dispute window active.
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Probability (last 7 days)

-3.1pp 7d
1007550250
1¢
May 11, 2026, 12:00 UTCMay 18, 2026, 11:06 UTC
updated 11:06:36 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·snap:snap_2026-05-18T11-06Z

Why did it move?

Structured · 2 factors
  • 01
    Active signal

    Resolution-risk observation firing

    Expires in 13h.

  • 02
    Liquidity

    Thin liquidity

    Only $2.4k of visible book — small orders can move the line. Treat the probability as a soft estimate.

What to track next

  • Verify the resolution source on this page — exchange feed, official release, news consensus — before treating any move as new information.
  • Set an alert for resolution status changes — expiry is in 13 hours.

Verification actions only — never trade recommendations.

Each factor is grounded in a single named metric you can verify on this page — probability, volume, liquidity, signal, resolution state. No predictions, no prose hallucinations.

Timeline

critical · price · trade flow

Critical

  • 00:00Scheduled resolution

    Market resolves in 12.9h

    HIGH
  • 11:06Signal

    Resolution risk

    Expires in 13h.

    MEDIUM

Price movement

-0.5pp over the last 24h, now 1¢.

Biggest hourly move: -30.0pp at 19:00 (to 2¢).

Show top 8 of 40 hourly moves
  • 21:00 · -29.0pp → 2¢
  • 19:00 · -30.0pp → 2¢
  • 17:00 · -25.9pp → 2¢
  • May 16, 06:00 UTC · -24.1pp → 5¢
  • May 15, 18:00 UTC · +24.3pp → 27¢
  • May 15, 12:00 UTC · -26.5pp → 3¢
  • May 15, 08:00 UTC · +26.2pp → 31¢
  • May 15, 04:00 UTC · +24.9pp → 28¢
updated 11:06:36 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·Polymarket Data

Active signals

Recent Trades

No recent trades visible from the Data API for this market. That usually means liquidity is thin or this market is between event windows.

updated 11:06:36 UTC·src:Polymarket Data

Market Description

This market will resolve according to the candidate who wins the nomination for the Republican Party to contest the AL-01 congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. The Republican primary will take place on May 19, 2026. If no nominee is announced by November 3, 2026, 11:59PM ET, this market will resolve to "Other". The resolution source for this market will be a consensus of official Republican sources, including https://www.rnc.org/. Any replacement of the nominee before election day will not change the resolution of the market.

Why this category?

confidence: high

Category

Politics

Source

Manual override (pattern match)

Matched term

midterm election

Reason

Election markets are Politics.

Categories come from a deterministic engine: manual overrides (highest priority) → sports hard markers → event-tag rules → keyword rules → Gamma category hint → default. The engine is versioned in category-overrides.ts; methodology lives at /methodology.

FAQ — questions readers actually ask

What is the current Polymarket probability for "Will Austin Sidwell be the Republican nominee for AL-01?"?

As of Mon, 18 May 2026 11:06:36 GMT, YES is priced at 1% implied probability on Polymarket. The price changed -0.5pp in the last 24 hours, -0.1pp in the last hour, and -3.1pp in the last 7 days.

When does this market resolve?

This market resolves by May 19, 2026 (2026-05-19T00:00:00.000Z). Resolution is determined from the market description on Polymarket.

What source determines the outcome?

Resolution is sourced from the market description on Polymarket. Polymarket's UMA optimistic oracle is the final settlement layer; if the published source is ambiguous, UMA tokenholders adjudicate. Source-extraction confidence is shown in the Resolution & Risk block above.

How much is being traded on this market?

$84.00 of trading volume in the last 24 hours. Lifetime volume on Polymarket: $13.7K. Open liquidity in the YES/NO orderbooks: $2.4K. Spread between best bid and best ask: 0.5¢.

Is this a trade recommendation?

No. Orrery describes — never predicts. Every signal on this market carries explicit Evidence, Backtest, and Action tiers. The Action is always one of: Watch only, Inspect timeline, Create alert, Verify source, or Ignore — never Buy or Sell. The probability above is the market's collective implied probability, not a forecast Orrery is publishing.

How fresh is this data and where does it come from?

This page revalidates from the public Polymarket APIs every 30 seconds. Probability and 24h-change come from Gamma; the chart series comes from the CLOB orderbook history; trade and holder data come from the Data API. The fetched-at timestamp on each block tells you exactly how old the underlying upstream pull was.

Alerts

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