PoliticsMulti-outcomeExpires May 30, 2026
Creator

Will voter turnout be between 85% and 90% in the 2026 Maltese general election?

Probability

20¢

1h

+1.0pp

24h

-30.5pp

24h Vol

$63.90

Liquidity

$8.0K

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)

LIVE

Reason

Active market, expiry beyond the near-expiry window.

Resolution & Risk

LOW risk
End date
May 30, 2026
UMA status
n/a
Resolution source
Primary
to the official voter turnout rate for the 2026 Maltese general election, defined as the total number of votes cast divi
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.
  • Wide spread (9.0¢) — liquidity risk on entry/exit.
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Probability (last 7 days)

-6.5pp 7d
1007550250
20¢
May 11, 2026, 12:00 UTCMay 18, 2026, 11:39 UTC
updated 11:39:09 UTC·src:Polymarket CLOB·snap:snap_2026-05-18T11-39Z

Why did it move?

Structured · 3 factors
  • 01
    Price move

    Down 31pp over 24h

    Now 20¢; +1.0pp in the last hour.

  • 02
    Active signal

    Resolution-risk observation firing

    Spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable edge.

  • 03
    Spread cost

    Wide spread — 9.0¢

    Bid-ask spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable advantage. Most of the headline pp move would be eaten by spread on a market order.

What to track next

  • Verify the resolution source on this page — exchange feed, official release, news consensus — before treating any move as new information.

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

  • May 30, 00:00 UTCScheduled resolution

    Market resolves in 276.3h

    LOW
  • 11:39Signal

    Resolution risk

    Spread is wide enough that intraday moves overstate any tradeable edge.

    LOW

Price movement

-30.5pp over the last 24h, now 20¢.

Biggest hourly move: +33.0pp at May 16, 23:00 UTC (to 50¢).

Show top 8 of 60 hourly moves
  • May 17, 09:00 UTC · +20.0pp → 50¢
  • May 17, 00:00 UTC · +29.0pp → 50¢
  • May 16, 23:00 UTC · +33.0pp → 50¢
  • May 16, 21:00 UTC · +25.0pp → 50¢
  • May 16, 20:00 UTC · +31.5pp → 50¢
  • May 16, 19:00 UTC · +23.5pp → 50¢
  • May 16, 17:00 UTC · +21.0pp → 50¢
  • May 16, 15:00 UTC · +29.0pp → 51¢
updated 11:39:09 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 11:39:09 UTC·src:Polymarket Data

Market Description

General elections are scheduled to be held in Malta on May 30, 2026. This market will resolve according to the official voter turnout rate for the 2026 Maltese general election, defined as the total number of votes cast divided by the total number of registered voters. If the reported value falls exactly between two brackets, this market will resolve to the higher bracket. If the results of this election are not definitively known by March 31, 2027, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to the lowest bracket. This market will resolve based on the official results as reported by the Government of Malta, including the Electoral Commission of Malta (https://electoral.gov.mt/)

Why this category?

confidence: high

Category

Politics

Source

Manual override (pattern match)

Matched term

general 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 voter turnout be between 85% and 90% in the 2026 Maltese general election?"?

As of Mon, 18 May 2026 11:39:09 GMT, YES is priced at 20% implied probability on Polymarket. The price changed -30.5pp in the last 24 hours, +1.0pp in the last hour, and -6.5pp in the last 7 days.

When does this market resolve?

This market resolves by May 30, 2026 (2026-05-30T00:00:00.000Z). 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?

$63.90 of trading volume in the last 24 hours. Lifetime volume on Polymarket: $5.3K. Open liquidity in the YES/NO orderbooks: $8.0K. Spread between best bid and best ask: 9.0¢.

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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