Who will run for office before the midterms is a one-time elections series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will Matthew McConaughey announce a run for an elected public office in 2026?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 10 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (980 KB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXRUNBYMIDTERM
Category: Elections, one-time
Markets: 10 (0 settled, 10 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 980 KB, 127,215 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 Who will run for office before the midterms 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 KXRUNBYMIDTERM 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=KXRUNBYMIDTERM/trades-KXRUNBYMIDTERM-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.