--- title: Hillary Clinton: Record Bet Placed for Her to Win 2016 Race description: A $615,862 bet has been placed on Hillary Clinton to win the election—the biggest bet ever staked on any U.S. presidential election. canonical: https://time.com/4522662/bet-hillary-clinton-election/ author: Suyin Haynes article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-07T14:28:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:25.541Z og:title: Someone Placed a Record-Breaking Bet That Clinton Will Win the Election og:description: Bet taken by British bookmaker is biggest on the market og:url: https://time.com/4522662/bet-hillary-clinton-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6ee50ba4e4bcfcf/6988a918fb4eacdd6388f644/gettyimages-612789232.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Placed a Record-Breaking Bet That Clinton Will Win the Election twitter:description: Bet taken by British bookmaker is biggest on the market twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6ee50ba4e4bcfcf/6988a918fb4eacdd6388f644/gettyimages-612789232.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Someone Placed a Record-Breaking Bet That Hillary Clinton Will Win the Election by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Oct 7, 2016 2:28 PM UTC  Democratic Nominee for President of the United States Hillary Clinton in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Oct. 4, 2016. Democratic Nominee for President of the United States Hillary Clinton in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Oct. 4, 2016.Melina Mara—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Oct 7, 2016 2:28 PM UTC A $615,862 bet has been placed on Hillary Clinton to win the election—the biggest bet ever staked on any U.S. [presidential election](http://time.com/4522601/why-the-second-debate-matters-more/?iid=sr-link5). British bookmaker William Hill announced on Friday that the bet had been made for €550,000\. A 46-year-old female client placed the amount on Clinton becoming President at odds of 4/11, or a 73% chance of success, in the hope of making a profit of around $224,000. “As far as we are aware, this is the biggest wager ever taken on the US Presidential Elections,” a William Hill spokesman said. “As a result of taking this bet, a win for Donald Trump has now become the favored outcome for us in terms of our liabilities for either of the two leading contenders.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4522662/bet-hillary-clinton-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4522662/bet-hillary-clinton-election/"},"headline":"Someone Placed a Record-Breaking Bet That Hillary Clinton Will Win the Election","datePublished":"2016-10-07T14:28:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:25.541Z","description":"Bet taken by British bookmaker is biggest on the market","url":"https://time.com/4522662/bet-hillary-clinton-election/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Hillary Clinton","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6ee50ba4e4bcfcf/6988a918fb4eacdd6388f644/gettyimages-612789232.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Suyin Haynes","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6ee50ba4e4bcfcf/6988a918fb4eacdd6388f644/gettyimages-612789232.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","caption":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","creditText":"Melina Mara—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4522662/bet-hillary-clinton-election/","name":"Someone Placed a Record-Breaking Bet That Hillary Clinton Will Win the Election"}}]}] ```