2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election is drawing 25x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Legislative Assembly elections were held in West Bengal to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in two phases on 23 and 29 April 2026, with the votes counted and results for 293 seats released on 4 May 2026. The election saw the defeat of the incumbent All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), led by Mamata Banerjee. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the election in a landslide and formed the government for the first time in the state.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 404 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 region
• Results by division
• Left Front+

What changed that day

The article grew by 38,982 characters that day. The largest single addition was 2,782 characters to Results by constituency. 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.