Politics
Senate Elections
We are now one day away from finding the victor of the US presidential election, as the American public decides between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for whom they want to lead their country.
The current election odds have Donald Trump a slight favourite priced at 4/6, with Kamala Harris now 13/10 having shortened in recent days.
Alongside the US presidential election to find the next President of the United States is the election for the US Senate across several states as well as which party takes overall control of the House and Senate. The Republicans are currently strong 2/9 favourites to take overall control of the House and Senate in 2024, taking control back from the Democrats and Kamala Harris who are 10/3.
Our blog looks at the betting for the Senate Elections for overall control, as well as across different states.
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Senate betting
As mentioned, the Republican Party are strong 2/9 favourites to take control of the US Senate from the Democrats.
The Democratic Party currently holds a marginal majority within the House, holding 51 seats with the Republican Party holding 49 seats. The upcoming Senate elections sees 34 seats available with each seat as important as the next with how close both the major parties are already.
Due to the nature of how the seats are currently divided, the Republican Party only needs to gain two seats net over the Democratic Party in order to gain full control over the House. This would mean needing one seat if Donald Trump was to be successful in his bid to become the President of the United States for a second term. If that were to be the case, it would look very favourable for the Republicans to gain overall control of the house.
State betting
It’s worth focusing on the smaller battles for Congress in each individual state to work out the party who will eventually assume control.
In Nevada, it looks fairly cut and dried with Democrat Ruben Gallego (2/9), who has continued to poll ahead of his Republican counterpart in the last few weeks as we approach the election.
Montana looks like a great opportunity for the Republicans to gain some ground. Tim Sheehy (1/6) is considered one of the best chances for the party in a state that has been leaning to the right in recent years.
Ohio looks to be one of the closest run races out of many of the states and it is difficult even at this point to predict who will come out on top. Republican nominee Bernie Moreno currently holds the upper hand, favoured at 8/11, but it would be no surprise if the state opted for Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown, who isn’t far behind him at EVS.
Despite Wisconsin being one of the evenly politically divided states in the US, Democrat Tammy Baldwin holds a 2/7 chance of being successful in her case for the state.
