Voting Comparison

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

vs
3816 shared votes
95%
agreement
3618 agreed · 198 diverged
3816 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.

Denmark
Lithuania Yes No Abstain
Yes 2245 1 16
No 4 672 33
Abstain 67 45 697

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% 513/530
Nuclear/Arms
91% 285/312
Colonialism
92% 306/334
Human Rights
95% 510/537
Economic Dev.
91% 203/223
Disarmament
93% 413/445
Overall
95% 3618/3816

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution Lithuania Denmark Y / N / A
A/RES/49/75K
Request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) o…
1994
abstain no 78 / 43 / 38
A/RES/50/11
Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1995
non_voting yes 97 / 36 / 29
A/RES/47/15
Activities of those foreign economic and other interests which impede the imple…
1992
non_voting no 95 / 34 / 12
A/RES/48/123
Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations System for …
1993
abstain no 115 / 34 / 21
A/RES/48/168
Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against develop…
1993
no yes 116 / 32 / 16
31/125
International Year for Disabled Persons
1976
abstain no 101 / 26 / 37
A/RES/48/94
Importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determi…
1993
abstain no 101 / 26 / 37
A/RES/77/247
Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the O…
2022
no abstain 87 / 26 / 53
A/RES/49/202
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopte…
1994
non_voting yes 74 / 25 / 55
A/RES/71/54
Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear…
2016
abstain no 137 / 25 / 19
A/RES/49/75E
Step-by-step reduction of nuclear threat : resolution / adopted by the General …
1994
abstain no 111 / 24 / 33
A/RES/49/76E
Convention on the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons : resolution / adop…
1994
abstain no 115 / 24 / 31

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