2026-06-19 · This surge ran for 7 days and has since subsided.
2026 Makerfield by-election saw 13x more Wikipedia readers than usual
2026 Makerfield by-election drew 159,447 views on 2026-06-19, 13x more than the usual 12,238 a day over the previous 60 days.
2026 Makerfield by-election
UK parliamentary by-election
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-19 | 159,447 |
| 2026-06-18 | 66,789 |
| 2026-06-17 | 29,937 |
| 2026-06-16 | 21,322 |
| 2026-06-15 | 20,270 |
| 2026-06-14 | 12,615 |
| 2026-06-13 | 11,860 |
| 2026-06-12 | 13,522 |
| 2026-06-11 | 15,906 |
| 2026-06-10 | 11,441 |
| 2026-06-09 | 9,788 |
| 2026-06-08 | 11,494 |
| 2026-06-07 | 8,985 |
| 2026-06-06 | 7,845 |
| 2026-06-05 | 13,626 |
| 2026-06-04 | 15,270 |
| 2026-06-03 | 10,815 |
| 2026-06-02 | 9,391 |
| 2026-06-01 | 8,617 |
| 2026-05-31 | 7,840 |
| 2026-05-30 | 6,975 |
| 2026-05-29 | 8,109 |
| 2026-05-28 | 8,549 |
| 2026-05-27 | 10,512 |
| 2026-05-26 | 13,525 |
| 2026-05-25 | 10,098 |
| 2026-05-24 | 10,061 |
| 2026-05-23 | 9,803 |
| 2026-05-22 | 11,122 |
| 2026-05-21 | 14,251 |
| 2026-05-20 | 18,901 |
| 2026-05-19 | 31,094 |
| 2026-05-18 | 30,999 |
| 2026-05-17 | 19,476 |
| 2026-05-16 | 21,960 |
| 2026-05-15 | 42,219 |
| 2026-05-14 | 31,399 |
What this article is
A by-election for the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency of Makerfield took place on 18 June 2026 following the resignation of Josh Simons, Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 134 edits to this article on 2026-06-19, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Result
- Aftermath
- Reactions
- Opinion polling
- Political context
- Background
What changed that day
The article grew by 10,371 characters that day. The largest single addition was 2,806 characters to Aftermath. See everything that changed on 2026-06-19 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.