2026 Assam Legislative Assembly election is drawing 13x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

The 2026 Assam Legislative Assembly elections were held in Assam on 9 April 2026 to elect 126 members to the Assam Legislative Assembly. Votes were counted and the results were declared on 4 May 2026 by the Election Commission of India. The election results were a landslide victory for the NDA and recorded the lowest tally of seats ever won by the INC in the state.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 88 edits to this article on 2026-05-04, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Results by constituency
• Results
• Results by alliance or party
• Results by districts
• Voter statistics
• Voter turnout by district

What changed that day

The article grew by 12,767 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,885 characters to Voting Turnout. See everything that changed on 2026-05-04 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.