Voting Comparison

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

vs
83%
agreement
2945 agreed · 616 diverged
3561 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.

Monaco
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Yes No Abstain
Yes 1891 1 13
No 88 642 241
Abstain 100 2 409

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
94% 449/476
Nuclear/Arms
76% 222/291
Colonialism
63% 193/305
Human Rights
93% 479/515
Economic Dev.
76% 159/208
Disarmament
80% 336/419
Overall
83% 2945/3561

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Monaco Y / N / A
A/RES/51/140
Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementat…
1996
no non_voting 107 / 49 / 4
A/RES/48/46
Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementat…
1993
no non_voting 111 / 43 / 3
A/RES/50/11
Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1995
abstain yes 97 / 36 / 29
A/RES/79/330
Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organizatio…
2025
yes no 118 / 36 / 11
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/48/168
Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against develop…
1993
no non_voting 116 / 32 / 16
A/RES/72/58
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the …
2017
no non_voting 131 / 31 / 18
A/RES/64/55
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the …
2009
no non_voting 124 / 31 / 21
A/RES/63/49
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the …
2008
no non_voting 127 / 30 / 23
A/RES/77/23
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat
2022
no abstain 90 / 30 / 47
A/RES/65/76
Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the …
2010
no non_voting 133 / 28 / 23

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