Key Votes

Closest recorded-vote margins and splits among the five permanent Security Council members.

Closest margins P5 splits
Body: All GA SC Margin ≤ 5 10 20 50

8 resolutions adopted by a margin of 5 votes or fewer.

Resolution Title Year Yes No Abstain Margin
A/RES/3238(XXIX) GA Restoration of the lawful rights of the Royal Government of National Union of C… 1974 56 54 24 +2
A/RES/62/249 GA Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia 2008 14 11 105 +3
A/34/500 GA 1979 6 3 0 +3
A/RES/49(I)[B] GA Request of the World Federation of Trade Unions for a closer connexion with the… 1946 25 22 6 +3
A/RES/37/30 GA Question of East Timor : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 1982 50 46 50 +4
S/RES/87(1950) SC Security Council resolution 87 (1950) [on complaint of armed invasion of Taiwan] 1950 7 3 1 +4
S/RES/119(1956) SC Security Council resolution 119 (1956) [on an emergency special session of the … 1956 7 2 2 +5
A/1714] GA 1951 22 17 12 +5