Voting Comparison

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

vs
3622 shared votes
94%
agreement
3418 agreed · 204 diverged
3622 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.

Slovakia
Estonia Yes No Abstain
Yes 2116 3 25
No 3 635 37
Abstain 66 28 662

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
97% 462/476
Nuclear/Arms
90% 263/291
Colonialism
95% 289/305
Human Rights
96% 493/515
Economic Dev.
93% 194/209
Disarmament
94% 392/419
Overall
94% 3418/3622

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution Estonia Slovakia Y / N / A
A/RES/56/146
Equitable geographical distribution of the membership of the human rights instr…
2001
no abstain 113 / 47 / 5
32/95
Emergency assistance for South African refugee students
1977
no abstain 113 / 47 / 5
A/RES/50/11
Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1995
abstain yes 97 / 36 / 29
32/99
Assistance to Cape Verde
1977
yes no 110 / 35 / 24
A/RES/49/186
Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations System for …
1994
abstain no 110 / 35 / 24
47/147
Situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia
1992
yes no 113 / 35 / 13
A/RES/71/258
Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations : resolution / ado…
2016
yes no 113 / 35 / 13
A/59/516/Add.1
United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning
2005
no yes 84 / 34 / 37
A/RES/59/280
United Nations declaration on human cloning : resolution / adopted by the Gener…
2005
no yes 84 / 34 / 37
A/RES/51/46D
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop…
1996
abstain no 114 / 31 / 27
A/RES/50/96
Economic measures as a means of political and economic coersion against develop…
1995
non_voting no 100 / 30 / 22
A/RES/57/85
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the …
2002
abstain no 117 / 30 / 24

Agreements on Contested Votes

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

Resolution Both voted Y / N / A
A/RES/68/144
Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2013
no 94 / 71 / 23
40/233
Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador
1985
no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/65/224
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/61/166
Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resolution / ad…
2006
no 86 / 64 / 26
39/192
Question of the United States Virgin Islands
1984
no 86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/57/230
Situation of human rights in the Sudan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2002
yes 80 / 62 / 33
A/RES/64/156
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
no 80 / 61 / 42
A/RES/74/247
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes :…
2019
no 79 / 60 / 33