Voting Blocs

Named political groups and data-driven clusters recovered from the UN voting record. View trends over time →

Named Political Groups

Aggregate voting position across all recorded UN resolutions, by major political group.

UN Security Council Permanent Members

66% Yes 15% Abstain 17% No

Group of 77 (developing nations coalition, 134 members)

82% Yes 7% Abstain 2% No

Non-Aligned Movement (120 member states)

83% Yes 6% Abstain 1% No

BRICS+ (expanded group from 2024)

83% Yes 8% Abstain 3% No

BRICS original (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)

78% Yes 10% Abstain 4% No

NATO (32 member states)

62% Yes 21% Abstain 16% No

European Union (27 members)

64% Yes 21% Abstain 14% No

Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (57 members)

64% Yes 19% Abstain 14% No

Council of Europe

Council of Europe (46 members)

64% Yes 20% Abstain 13% No

UN African Group (54 member states)

81% Yes 6% Abstain 1% No

UN Arab Group / League of Arab States (22 members)

87% Yes 5% Abstain 2% No

Asia-Pacific Group

UN Asia-Pacific Group (53 members)

79% Yes 9% Abstain 5% No

UN Latin America & Caribbean Group (33 members)

83% Yes 7% Abstain 1% No

UN Western European & Others Group (29 members)

61% Yes 22% Abstain 16% No

UN Eastern European Group (23 members)

67% Yes 16% Abstain 12% No

G20 (major economies)

70% Yes 15% Abstain 11% No

OPEC (13 member states)

84% Yes 5% Abstain 2% No

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (10 members)

88% Yes 6% Abstain 2% No

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (57 members)

85% Yes 6% Abstain 2% No

IBSA Dialogue Forum (India, Brazil, South Africa)

76% Yes 9% Abstain 3% No

BASIC (climate negotiating bloc: Brazil, South Africa, India, China)

78% Yes 9% Abstain 3% No

Caribbean Community (15 members)

80% Yes 5% Abstain 1% No

Pacific Islands

Pacific Islands Forum (18 members)

61% Yes 14% Abstain 9% No

Data-Driven Clusters

Voting blocs recovered automatically from the pairwise agreement matrix (5-year rolling window, countries with ≥75% agreement on shared votes placed in the same cluster). Labels show the closest matching named group. Populate with manage.py compute_voting_blocs.

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