US Presidential Election Odds API ​

The Odds API covers US presidential election winner futures odds in a simple JSON API.

Not a developer? Current US Presidential Election odds can also be accessed in Excel or Google Sheets. For website owners, the odds widget brings bookmaker odds into websites with a simple HTML tag.

Features ​

  • US presidential election winner futures (outrights) odds are covered for several bookmakers. See the full list of bookmakers.

  • Odds are refreshed at regular intervals. More information on update intervals can be found here.

  • Current odds data are available on all usage plans, including the free usage plan.

  • Historical US Presidential Election odds data is available from Jun 2020 on paid usage plans. More information on historical odds data can be found here.

  • The API response includes deep links to bookmaker websites.

Querying US Presidential Election Odds ​

Query US Presidential Election Futures ​

Futures can be queried using the odds endpoint.

Parameters

To query current US Presidential Election futures odds, the following parameters need to be provided:

  • sport   In this case politics_us_presidential_election_winner
  • regions   Regions of bookmakers to return, for example us
  • markets   For example, outrights for the winner market
  • oddsFormat   decimal or american. This example uses american
  • apiKey   Get a free API key

See the documentation for more options

Example API Request

https://api.the-odds-api.com/v4/sports/politics_us_presidential_election_winner/odds?regions=us&markets=outrights&oddsFormat=american&apiKey=YOUR_API_KEY

Example API Response

The API will return the US presidential election winner futures market, including a list of candidates and their odds from bookmakers for the specified regions.

json
[{
    "id": "b283d3abb171c18b7fde3bd7594db795",
    "sport_key": "politics_us_presidential_election_winner",
    "sport_title": "US Presidential Elections Winner",
    "commence_time": "2028-11-07T14:15:00Z",
    "home_team": null,
    "away_team": null,
    "bookmakers": [
        {
            "key": "bovada",
            "title": "Bovada",
            "last_update": "2026-11-12T06:18:37Z",
            "markets": [
                {
                    "key": "outrights",
                    "last_update": "2026-11-12T06:18:37Z",
                    "outcomes": [
                        {"name": "Jon Ossoff", "price": 400},
                        {"name": "J. D. Vance", "price": 500},
                        {"name": "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez", "price": 750},
                        {"name": "Marco Rubio", "price": 850},
                        {"name": "Gavin Newsom", "price": 900},
                        {"name": "Ron DeSantis", "price": 1500},
                        {"name": "Josh Shapiro", "price": 3000},
                        {"name": "Kamala Harris", "price": 4000},
                        ...
                    ]
                }
            ]
        },
        ...

The usage cost of the API call in this example is

usage cost = [number of markets] x [number of regions] = 1 x 1 = 1 credit

See the API documentation for details.

Other Sports ​

See the full list of sports covered by The Odds API.

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