Closest governor's race is a one-time elections series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will South Carolina have the smallest margin of victory in 2026 United States gubernatorial elections?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 24 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (20 MB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXCLOSESTGOVERNOR
Category: Elections, one-time
Markets: 24 (0 settled, 24 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 20 MB, 1,550,113 rows
Datasets: Order book (L2, incremental), Order book snapshots (top 10, 1 second), Top of book (every change), Top of book (1-minute bars), Trades

Open Closest governor's race in Markets to see every day and market, then export the days you need. Free sample files of each dataset are on the Kalshi data page.

Reading the files

Every KXCLOSESTGOVERNOR trade on October 24, 2026, in DuckDB:

SELECT ts_recv, ticker, yes_price, size, taker_side
FROM 'kalshieye-data/trades/date=2026-10-24/series=KXCLOSESTGOVERNOR/trades-KXCLOSESTGOVERNOR-2026-10-24.parquet'
ORDER BY ts_recv;

To test a strategy on this series, see How to backtest Kalshi markets.

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Figures through October 24, 2026. All Kalshi series with pages are listed on Kalshi series.