Voting Comparison

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

vs
3575 shared votes
31%
agreement
1104 agreed · 2471 diverged

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.

Micronesia (Federated States of)
Tunisia Yes No Abstain
Yes 1074 1094 621
No 34 2
Abstain 156 5 5

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
9% 46/530
Nuclear/Arms
27% 83/312
Colonialism
22% 72/334
Human Rights
16% 87/537
Economic Dev.
45% 101/223
Disarmament
44% 194/445
Overall
31% 1104/3575

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution Tunisia Micronesia (Federated States of) Y / N / A
A/RES/68/144
Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assemb…
2013
yes no 94 / 71 / 23
40/233
Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador
1985
yes no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/65/224
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
yes no 79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/61/166
Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resol…
2006
yes no 86 / 64 / 26
39/192
Question of the United States Virgin Islands
1984
yes no 86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/57/230
Situation of human rights in the Sudan : resolution / adopted by the General As…
2002
no yes 80 / 62 / 33
A/RES/64/156
Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2010
yes no 80 / 61 / 42
A/RES/74/247
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal …
2019
abstain no 79 / 60 / 33
A/RES/73/187
Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal …
2018
non_voting no 94 / 59 / 33
A/RES/54/168
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1999
yes no 91 / 59 / 10
31/37
United Nations Conference on Desertlflcatlon
1976
yes no 96 / 58 / 12
A/RES/52/119
Respect for the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference in the …
1997
yes no 96 / 58 / 12

Agreements on Contested Votes

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

Resolution Both voted Y / N / A
32/101
Assistance to Guinea-Bissau
1977
yes 137 / 54 / 0
32/127
Regional arrangements for the p
1977
yes 137 / 54 / 0
A/RES/78/237
Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of interna…
2023
non_voting 104 / 53 / 7
A/RES/61/169
The right to development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2006
yes 134 / 53 / 0
40/230
Situa- tion of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Sal- vador
1985
yes 134 / 53 / 0
A/RES/62/161
The right to development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2007
yes 136 / 53 / 0
34/131
Question of Guam
1979
yes 136 / 53 / 0
32/98
Assistance to Botswana
1977
yes 131 / 53 / 7