2026 Puducherry Legislative Assembly election saw 18x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

2026 Puducherry Legislative Assembly elections were held on 9 April 2026 to elect all the 30 members of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 4 May 2026 by the Election Commission of India.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 76 edits to this article on 2026-05-04, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• By constituency
• By district
• By alliance or party
• Results

What changed that day

The article grew by 7,950 characters that day. The largest single addition was 9,801 characters. 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.