The elections in the UK are a crazy time, when it comes to
betting. Everyone think they know who will win or at least wants to convince
themself they know who will. So there is a lot of betting going on...
However this year's set a new record with 40M$ that were bet on the election, according to the Washington Post. Election Betting usually start up to 1 month before the first round of the election and get more intense as the time of the election approaches. This amount is approxymatly twice the amount bet by other voters in other countries.
However, as you might have guessed elections' bets are not as popular as sport's bet. In some events such as the Grand National this month, 600M$ were bid ! But Football has nothing to be ashamed of and a first league championship has on average 15M$ bids ...