Nicaragua vs United States: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Nicaragua 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
31.4%
of 5,635 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 76.0% | 225 |
| 1950 | 76.4% | 364 |
| 1960 | 75.8% | 385 |
| 1970 | 47.2% | 847 |
| 1980 | 9.1% | 1,336 |
| 1990 | 25.9% | 696 |
| 2000 | 19.5% | 874 |
| 2010 | 17.1% | 907 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 14.8% | 974 |
| Nuclear weapons | 22.2% | 807 |
| Disarmament | 25.4% | 1,038 |
| Colonialism | 23.2% | 857 |
| Human rights | 23.0% | 957 |
| Economic development | 23.7% | 695 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Nicaragua | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/ES-10/19 Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-21 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/191 Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-19 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/189 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-19 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/84 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-07 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/15 Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/14 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/13 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/12 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/11 Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/4 Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-01 | yes | no |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Nicaragua and United States vote together at the UN?
Nicaragua and United States voted the same way in 31.4% of 5,635 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Nicaragua and United States agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Nicaragua and United States mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 23.0% of 957 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Nicaragua and United States last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-21 Nicaragua voted "yes" and United States voted "no" on A/RES/ES-10/19 (Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).