Voting Comparison

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

vs
3797 shared votes
95%
agreement
3617 agreed · 180 diverged
3797 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.

Lithuania
Poland Yes No Abstain
Yes 2198 4 40
No 3 690 34
Abstain 44 14 725

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% 506/530
Nuclear/Arms
93% 290/312
Colonialism
93% 310/334
Human Rights
96% 514/537
Economic Dev.
94% 210/223
Disarmament
95% 423/445
Overall
95% 3617/3797

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution Poland Lithuania Y / N / A
A/RES/51/103
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures : resolution / adopted by the Gen…
1996
non_voting no 57 / 45 / 59
A/RES/49/75K
Request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) o…
1994
no abstain 78 / 43 / 38
A/RES/50/11
Multilingualism : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1995
yes non_voting 97 / 36 / 29
32/99
Assistance to Cape Verde
1977
no yes 110 / 35 / 24
A/RES/47/15
Activities of those foreign economic and other interests which impede the imple…
1992
no non_voting 95 / 34 / 12
A/RES/48/123
Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations System for …
1993
no abstain 115 / 34 / 21
A/59/516/Add.1
United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning
2005
yes no 84 / 34 / 37
A/RES/59/280
United Nations declaration on human cloning : resolution / adopted by the Gener…
2005
yes no 84 / 34 / 37
32/95
Emergency assistance for South African refugee students
1977
abstain no 131 / 34 / 19
A/RES/71/189
Declaration on the Right to Peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2016
abstain no 131 / 34 / 19
A/RES/77/23
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat
2022
abstain no 90 / 30 / 47
A/RES/79/82
Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by th…
2024
abstain no 101 / 27 / 42

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