Voting Comparison

Compare how two countries, blocs, or a country and a bloc voted on UN resolutions.

vs
3464 shared votes
62%
agreement
2141 agreed · 1323 diverged
3464 shared votes

Agreement Trend over Time

Agreement rate per year (years with ≥2 shared votes). Click a point or year label to filter the vote list below.

Position Matrix

How often each combination of positions occurred across all shared votes.

Turkmenistan
Chile Yes No Abstain
Yes 2123 41 78
No 19 1
Abstain 107 4 7

green = same position   amber = different position

Breakdown by Voeten Topic

Agreement rate per issue area (Voeten dataset, GA resolutions only). Dashed line shows overall agreement rate.

Middle East
50% 253/502
Nuclear/Arms
71% 213/301
Colonialism
55% 176/319
Human Rights
47% 246/526
Economic Dev.
59% 127/215
Disarmament
73% 315/431
Overall
62% 2141/3464

Most Divergent Votes

Resolutions where the two sides diverged most, sorted by how contested the overall vote was.

Resolution Chile Turkmenistan Y / N / A
A/RES/68/144
Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assemb…
2013
no yes 94 / 71 / 23
40/233
Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador
1985
no yes 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/65/224
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no yes 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/61/166
Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resol…
2006
no non_voting 86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/57/230
Situation of human rights in the Sudan : resolution / adopted by the General As…
2002
yes non_voting 80 / 62 / 33
A/RES/64/156
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no yes 80 / 61 / 42
A/RES/74/247
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal …
2019
no yes 79 / 60 / 33
A/RES/73/187
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal …
2018
no yes 94 / 59 / 33
A/RES/54/168
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1999
no non_voting 91 / 59 / 10
31/127
Emergency assistance for South African refugee students
1976
no yes 94 / 59 / 33
A/RES/49/180
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1994
abstain non_voting 97 / 57 / 14
A/RES/50/172
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1995
abstain non_voting 91 / 57 / 21

Agreements on Contested Votes

Resolutions where both sides voted the same way despite significant opposition from others.

Resolution Both voted Y / N / A
31/37
United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon
1976
abstain 96 / 58 / 12
A/RES/52/119
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the internal a…
1997
abstain 96 / 58 / 12
A/RES/75/181
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
2020
yes 131 / 56 / 0
A/RES/80/209
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
2025
yes 122 / 56 / 0
A/RES/64/31
Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995 and 2000 Review Confer…
2009
yes 109 / 56 / 10
32/98
Assistance to Botswana
1977
yes 131 / 56 / 0
A/RES/74/154
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
2019
yes 135 / 55 / 0
A/RES/74/159
Human rights and cultural diversity : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2019
yes 136 / 55 / 0