Voting Comparison

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

6161 shared votes

86%

agreement

5269 agreed · 892 diverged

6161 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.

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

green = same position amber = different position

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

Middle East

90% 804/896

Nuclear/Arms

92% 533/579

Colonialism

93% 522/563

Human Rights

84% 649/773

Economic Dev.

86% 423/491

Disarmament

85% 659/779

Overall

86% 5269/6161

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

Resolution	Islamic Republic of Iran	Oman	Y / N / A
A/RES/68/144 Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assemb… 2013	abstain	yes	94 / 71 / 23
A/RES/79/160 Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu… 2024	non_voting	yes	119 / 53 / 10
A/RES/80/192 Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu… 2025	non_voting	yes	119 / 51 / 10
A/RES/77/204 Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu… 2022	non_voting	yes	120 / 50 / 10
A/RES/78/190 Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu… 2023	non_voting	yes	118 / 49 / 14
A/RES/37/30 Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 1982	non_voting	no	50 / 46 / 50
A/RES/63/168 Moratorium on the use of the death penalty : resolution / adopted by the Genera… 2008	no	abstain	106 / 46 / 34
A/RES/3390(XXX)[B] Question of Korea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 1975	abstain	no	54 / 43 / 42
A/RES/36/50 Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 1981	yes	no	54 / 42 / 46
A/RES/65/206 Moratorium on the use of the death penalty : resolution / adopted by the Genera… 2010	no	abstain	109 / 41 / 35
A/RES/37/200 Further promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms : res… 1982	no	abstain	81 / 38 / 20
A/RES/50/11 Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 1995	abstain	yes	97 / 36 / 29

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

Resolution	Both voted	Y / N / A
40/233 Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador 1985	yes	79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/65/224 Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2010	yes	79 / 67 / 40
39/192 Question of the United States Virgin Islands 1984	yes	86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/61/166 Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resolution / ad… 2006	yes	86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/57/230 Situation of human rights in the Sudan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2002	no	80 / 62 / 33
A/RES/64/156 Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2010	yes	80 / 61 / 42
A/RES/74/247 Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes :… 2019	yes	79 / 60 / 33
31/127 Emergency assistance for South African refugee students 1976	yes	94 / 59 / 33