Voting Comparison

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

vs
6677 shared votes
41%
agreement
2731 agreed · 3946 diverged
6677 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.

Israel
New Zealand Yes No Abstain
Yes 1627 1569 903
No 36 647 92
Abstain 197 773 437

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
8% 74/896
Nuclear/Arms
42% 244/580
Colonialism
17% 95/563
Human Rights
45% 345/773
Economic Dev.
44% 217/491
Disarmament
50% 386/779
Overall
41% 2731/6677

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution New Zealand Israel Y / N / A
A/RES/79/160
Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu…
2024
no yes 119 / 53 / 10
A/RES/63/171
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2008
non_voting no 86 / 53 / 42
32/132
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1977
abstain no 127 / 52 / 6
32/132
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1977
abstain no 125 / 52 / 5
A/RES/62/145
Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exerci…
2007
abstain no 127 / 52 / 6
A/RES/63/164
Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exerci…
2008
abstain no 125 / 52 / 5
32/132
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1977
abstain no 127 / 51 / 7
A/RES/80/192
Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu…
2025
no yes 119 / 51 / 10
A/RES/61/151
Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exerci…
2006
abstain no 127 / 51 / 7
32/132
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1977
yes no 124 / 50 / 13
31/37
United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon
1976
no yes 120 / 50 / 10
A/RES/77/204
Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu…
2022
no yes 120 / 50 / 10

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
39/192
Question of the United States Virgin Islands
1984
no 86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/61/166
Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resolution / ad…
2006
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