Voting Comparison

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

vs
2435 shared votes
88%
agreement
2144 agreed · 291 diverged
2435 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.

Montenegro
New Zealand Yes No Abstain
Yes 1480 76 110
No 2 332 25
Abstain 28 28 332

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
95% 212/222
Nuclear/Arms
69% 124/181
Colonialism
87% 143/164
Human Rights
93% 280/301
Economic Dev.
88% 129/146
Disarmament
83% 196/236
Overall
88% 2144/2435

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution New Zealand Montenegro Y / N / A
A/RES/63/171
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2008
non_voting no 86 / 53 / 42
A/RES/62/145
Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exerci…
2007
abstain no 127 / 52 / 6
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/63/164
Use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exerci…
2008
abstain no 125 / 52 / 5
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
abstain no 127 / 51 / 7
A/RES/72/216
Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Ag…
2017
abstain no 131 / 48 / 4
A/RES/61/78
Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2006
yes no 115 / 48 / 18
36/170
Situa- tion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Sal- vador
1981
yes no 115 / 48 / 18
A/RES/66/57
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop…
2011
no non_voting 117 / 48 / 12
A/RES/73/227
Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Ag…
2018
abstain no 135 / 47 / 3

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/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
A/RES/73/187
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes :…
2018
no 94 / 59 / 33