Kalshi Politics markets in numbers
In the public Becker Kalshi dataset (markets created Jun 2021 to Nov 2025), Kalshi's Politics category had 8,053 markets across 1,144 series, with 441.0M contracts traded; 10.0% of markets never traded and 23.3% of settled markets resolved YES.
Historical snapshot · source: Becker Kalshi dataset and Kalshi public API · page updated · these numbers as JSON
Markets on government actions and political events outside elections, such as shutdowns, nominations, legislation and cabinet appointments.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Series | 1,144 |
| Markets | 8,053 |
| Events | 1,732 |
| Contracts traded | 440,983,621 |
| Markets never traded | 805 (10.0%) |
| Settled markets (yes or no) | 6,570 |
| Resolved YES | 1,534 (23.3% of settled) |
| Resolved NO | 5,036 (76.7% of settled) |
| First market created | Jul 26, 2021 |
| Last market created | Nov 21, 2025 |
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By year the market was created
| Year | Markets | Contracts traded | Never traded | Settled |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 68 | 2,779,707 | 0.0% | 68 |
| 2022 | 780 | 5,680,198 | 2.9% | 780 |
| 2023 | 1,101 | 5,661,932 | 8.4% | 1,100 |
| 2024 | 2,274 | 203,720,997 | 6.6% | 1,974 |
| 2025 | 3,830 | 223,140,787 | 14.1% | 2,648 |
Highest-volume series in Politics
| Series | Kalshi title | Markets | Contracts traded | Never traded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KXGOVSHUTLENGTH | Number of days of government shutdown? | 66 | 82,758,196 | 0.0% |
| KXSECAG | Next Attorney General | 18 | 12,672,827 | 0.0% |
| KXSECDEF | New Secretary of Defense | 16 | 12,461,725 | 0.0% |
| KXSECHHS | Next Secretary of Health and Human Services | 8 | 12,146,553 | 0.0% |
| KXNOBELPEACE | Nobel Peace Prize | 34 | 12,076,482 | 14.7% |
| KXBIDENPARDON | Biden pardon Hunter | 30 | 11,480,444 | 0.0% |
| KXTRUMPPARDON | Trump pardons | 56 | 8,608,102 | 1.8% |
| KXTRUMPOUT | Trump Out As President | 1 | 8,382,643 | 0.0% |
| LEAVEPOWELL | Powell leaving | 6 | 7,654,168 | 0.0% |
| KXEPSTEIN | Epstein documents | 7 | 7,108,381 | 0.0% |
Compare categories: volume by year · share never traded · YES share by category
Why YES shares are often low or near half: ladders and brackets list many mutually exclusive outcomes per event and only one resolves YES, while game markets come in pairs with one winner. The share reflects how markets are structured, not a forecast or a trading rule.
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Method
- Series = the text before the first hyphen of
event_ticker(same rule as State of Kalshi). - Category = the label Kalshi's public API gives that series today (fetched Oct 17, 2026), applied to every market in the series, including older markets. Labels may differ from what Kalshi showed when a market was listed.
- Contracts = the sum of the
volumefield in the markets files. It counts contracts, not dollars. - Never traded = markets with
volumeof zero. Settled = markets whoseresultis yes or no. - Counts only. No prices are used, and nothing here is a forecast, a trading rule or financial advice.
Source
Market data: Becker Kalshi dataset (Jon Becker, prediction-market-analysis), data dump downloaded Jul 30, 2026, covering markets created Jun 30, 2021 to Nov 23, 2025. Category labels: Kalshi public API (GET /trade-api/v2/series). Computed with DuckDB over all markets files. This is a historical snapshot, not live data. Dataset snapshot date: Oct 17, 2026.