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Canada vs United States: UN Voting Alignment

How often do Canada and United States vote the same way at the UN General Assembly? Agreement over every shared roll-call vote since 1946, by year, decade, and topic — plus the resolutions where they split.

Overall agreement

57.6%

of 6,142 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946

Agreement by year

0%25%50%75%100%19461960198020002024
Canada–United States UN General Assembly voting agreement, 19462024. Latest: 1% agreement in 2024.

Agreement by topic

CanadaUnited States UN voting agreement by topic
TopicAgreementShared votes
Israel–Palestine41.0%1,057
Nuclear weapons55.2%848
Disarmament55.8%1,086
Colonialism47.6%954
Human rights63.6%1,006
Economic development52.0%756

Frequently asked questions

How often do Canada and United States vote together at the UN?

Canada and United States voted the same way in 57.6% of 6,142 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.

Do Canada and United States agree on human rights votes?

On human rights resolutions, Canada and United States are split: they voted the same way in 63.6% of 1,006 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.

Data source: Erik Voeten et al., 'United Nations General Assembly Voting Data', Harvard Dataverse.