Voting Comparison

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

vs
3115 shared votes
95%
agreement
2973 agreed · 142 diverged
3115 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.

Czechoslovakia
Ukraine Yes No Abstain
Yes 2231 7 80
No 1 398 12
Abstain 6 10 328

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
93% 391/420
Nuclear/Arms
93% 267/288
Colonialism
89% 230/258
Human Rights
92% 237/258
Economic Dev.
95% 269/282
Disarmament
95% 342/360
Overall
95% 2973/3115

Most Divergent Votes

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

Resolution Ukraine Czechoslovakia Y / N / A
A/RES/37/30
Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1982
yes abstain 50 / 46 / 50
A/RES/36/50
Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1981
yes abstain 54 / 42 / 46
A/RES/47/116D
Policies of apartheid of the government of South Africa : oil embargo against S…
1993
yes abstain 93 / 39 / 23
A/RES/47/116F
Policies of apartheid of the government of South Africa : relations between Sou…
1993
abstain no 93 / 39 / 23
A/RES/35/27
Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1980
yes abstain 58 / 35 / 46
A/47/645
Activities of those foreign economic and other interests which impede the imple…
1992
abstain no 95 / 34 / 0
A/RES/46/64
Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the imple…
1991
abstain no 109 / 34 / 16
A/RES/47/15
Activities of those foreign economic and other interests which impede the imple…
1992
abstain no 95 / 34 / 12
A/RES/46/79D
Relations between South Africa and Israel : resolution / adopted by the General…
1991
abstain no 93 / 31 / 30
A/RES/34/40
Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1979
yes abstain 62 / 31 / 45
A/RES/46/210
Economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against develop…
1991
abstain no 97 / 30 / 9
A/RES/47/16
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial C…
1992
abstain no 100 / 30 / 19

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/3238(XXIX)
Restoration of the lawful rights of the Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia in…
1974
no 56 / 54 / 24
A/RES/2642(XXV)
Representation of China in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
1970
no 66 / 52 / 7
A/RES/3390(XXX)[A]
Question of Korea : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1975
no 59 / 51 / 29
A/RES/2025(XX)
Representation of China in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
1965
no 56 / 49 / 11
A/RES/2500(XXIV)
Representation of China in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
1969
no 71 / 48 / 4
A/RES/2271(XXII)
Representation of China in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
1967
no 69 / 48 / 4
A/RES/2159(XXI)
Representation of China in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
1966
no 66 / 48 / 7
A/RES/2389(XXIII)
Representation of China in the United Nations : resolution / adopted by the General Assem…
1968
no 73 / 47 / 5