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r/politics

US political news and debate.

Weekly data through Oct 11, 2026

Compare activity against another subredditr/politics on Reddit
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Posts and comments, every week since October 2023
697K−16.1%in 4 weeks, year over year
202420252026Peak 1.28M · Nov 10, 2024
Members9.28M+4.2% year over yearRead Oct 11, 2026
Posts and comments in 4 weeks697K−16.1% year over year4 weeks to Oct 11, 2026
Unique contributors per week51.7K−16.1% year over year4-week average to Sep 27, 2026
Weekly visitors3.19M−36.0% year over yearRead Oct 11, 2026

Three years, week by week

Weekly activity in r/politics

Three years of weekly history. Download any chart as a PNG.

Posts and comments per week · 3 yearsPublic posts plus comments, r/politics

Week ending Oct 11, 2026164K−10.5% on the same week a year earlier

Posts and comments per week0500K1M2MNov ’232024MarMayJulSepNov2025MarMayJulSepNov2026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 1.28M · Nov 10, 2024Low 123K · Nov 26, 2023Posts and comments per week0500K1M2M2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 1.28M · Nov 10, 2024Low 123K · Nov 26, 2023

Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC week, dated by the Sunday it closed. The busiest week in the range is marked, and the quietest where it stands well apart.

Weekly unique contributors · 3 yearsUnique contributors to r/politics

Week ending Sep 27, 202651.5K−16.3% on the same week a year earlier

Unique contributors per week0100K200K300K2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 211K · Nov 10, 2024Unique contributors per week0100K200K300K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 211K · Nov 10, 2024

Accounts that posted or commented in the week, each counted once. Updated monthly.

Members · 3 yearsMembers of r/politics

Week ending Oct 11, 20269.28M+4.1% on the same week a year earlier

Members8M8.5M9M9.5M2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulOctWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGMembers8M8.5M9M9.5M2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

The member count Reddit shows for the community, read once a week.

Posts and comments · 3 yearsPosts against comments, r/politics

Week ending Oct 11, 2026Weekly posts1,923−35.3% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments162K−10.1% on the same week a year earlier

Posts per weekComments per week025005000750010K0500K1M2M2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulOctWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPosts per weekComments per week0500010K0500K1M2M2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Posts on the left scale, comments on the right. Each series is auto-scaled.

Weekly visitors · all readingsWeekly visitors, r/politics

Read Oct 11, 20263.19M−36.0% on the same day a year earlier

Weekly visitors02M4M6MNov ’252026MarMayJulSepDay the figure was readDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 5.35M · Apr 19, 2026Weekly visitors03M5M8MNov ’252026MarMayJulSepDay the figure was readDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 5.35M · Apr 19, 2026

Reddit’s weekly visitor figure for the community: unique visitors over seven days, as a 28-day rolling average. It is read about once a week, and each point is dated by the day it was read.

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Weekly contributions against Members · 3 yearsr/politics
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At Oct 11, 2026
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ValueSince Oct 22, 2023Since the week beforeValueSince Oct 22, 2023Since the week before
r/politics164K−15.6%−3.7% from Oct 49.28M+10.3%+0.1% from Oct 4
Posts and comments per weekMembers0500K1M1.5M8.5M9M9.5MNovAprSepFebJulDecMayOctWeek end or day readDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPosts and comments per weekMembers0500K1M1.5M8.5M9M9.5MJul ’24Apr ’25Jan ’26Oct ’26Week end or day readDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Members are the member count Reddit shows for the community, one reading a week. Solid lines use the left scale and dashed lines the right. Each scale is auto-scaled.

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Activity pattern

Why r/politics is classified as Steady

Oscylo reads the newest 52 weeks of posts, comments and unique contributors and gives each subreddit one of the patterns below. The figures behind the label are shown beside it.

Activity patternSteady

r/politics shows no strong, consistent direction across contributions and contributors. Individual weeks can still vary.

How the label is read

Concentration1.42×
2.5×

The busiest four weeks against the quietest, with the yearly trend taken out. At 2.5× or more the year counts as concentrated: Seasonal if the busy weeks came at the same time in earlier years, Event-driven if they did not, and Variable when there is too little history to tell.

Posts and comments, yearly trend−7.6%/yr
−20%0+20%

To be considered Rising, a subreddit needs posts and comments up 20% or more over the year, with unique contributors also rising. Cooling is the same in reverse, and anything between is Steady. The trend is a line fitted through all 52 weeks, so a single busy week barely moves it.

Unique contributors, yearly trend−10.3%/yr
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Posts and comments per weekThe newest 52 weeks against the 52 before, r/politics

Week ending Oct 11, 2026Newest 52 weeks164KThe 52 weeks before183K

Posts and comments per week0500K1M2MNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 242K · Nov 16, 2025Posts and comments per week0500K1M2MNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 242K · Nov 16, 2025

The 52 weeks before are drawn on the same calendar, so each week lines up with the matching week of the previous year.

Community anatomy

r/politics statistics

Six measures of how the community posts and replies, averaged over the twelve weeks from Jul 6, 2026 to Sep 27, 2026. Each bar places r/politics among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.

Comments per post

81.9 comments for each new post

LowerHigher

Higher than 91% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 74.4.

Threaded replies

60% of comments reply to another comment

LowerHigher

Higher than 86% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 63%.

Text posts

0.9% of new posts are text rather than links or media

LowerHigher

Higher than 3% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 0.3%.

Activity per contributor

3.5 posts and comments per unique contributor each week

LowerHigher

Higher than 90% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 2.5.

Most active 1%

8.6% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts

LowerHigher

Higher than 75% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 8.6%.

Participation

5.5 unique contributors in the latest week for every 1,000 members

LowerHigher

Higher than 49% of subreddits. News & politics middle: 21.

How contributions landPosts and comments by score
r/politicsAverage subreddit
Share of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%0–1: 44%44%0–12–3: 24%24%2–34–7: 13%13%4–78–15: 8%8%8–1516–31: 4.7%4.7%16–3132–127: 4.2%4.2%32–127128–511: 1.3%1.3%128–511512–2K: 0.4%0.4%512–2K2K+: 0.2%0.2%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGShare of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%0–1: 44%0-12–3: 24%2-34–7: 13%4-78–15: 8%8-1516–31: 4.7%16-3132–127: 4.2%32-127128–511: 1.3%128-511512–2K: 0.4%512-2K2K+: 0.2%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Score is upvotes minus downvotes a day or more after the post or comment was made, over the same twelve weeks. Outlined bars show the average mix across every subreddit on Oscylo.

Against its category

r/politics beside every News & politics subreddit

Posts and comments in r/politics are −16.1% year over year. The middle News & politics subreddit is at +61.0%.

Year-on-year changeEvery News & politics subreddit, posts and comments year over year
−75%−50%−25%0+25%+50%+100%+200%+400%Middle +61.0%r/worldnews: +28.1%r/news: −27.7%r/nottheonion: −13.4%r/BlackPeopleofReddit: 57×r/USNEWS: +291.5%r/LeopardsAteMyFarm: +581.8%r/NewsThread: +61.0%r/worldnewsr/newsr/nottheonionr/BlackPeopleofRedditr/USNEWSr/LeopardsAteMyFarmr/NewsThreadr/politics −16.1%Posts and comments, year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNG−75%−25%0+25%+100%+400%Middle +61.0%r/worldnews: +28.1%r/news: −27.7%r/nottheonion: −13.4%r/BlackPeopleofReddit: 57×r/USNEWS: +291.5%r/LeopardsAteMyFarm: +581.8%r/NewsThread: +61.0%r/worldnewsr/newsr/nottheonionr/BlackPeopleofRedditr/USNEWSr/politics −16.1%Year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Each subreddit's newest four weeks of posts and comments against the same four weeks a year earlier. The scale stretches near zero and compresses the extremes, and changes beyond +400% sit at the edge.

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Weekly posts, comments, unique contributors and members for r/politics, one row per week across the three years shown here.

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