1979 United Kingdom general election

Quality:

1979 United Kingdom general election - election for members of the British House of Commons. Article “1979 United Kingdom general election” in English Wikipedia has 68.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “1979 United Kingdom general election”, its content was written by 239 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 463 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2214 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4039 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3885 in July 2003
• Global: #9055 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4127 in December 2019
• Global: #10336 in December 2019

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) 1979 United Kingdom general election		68.8154
2	German (de) Britische Unterhauswahl 1979		38.0219
3	Chinese (zh) 1979年英國大選		26.1089
4	Hebrew (he) הבחירות הכלליות בבריטניה 1979		23.7922
5	Simple English (simple) 1979 United Kingdom general election		22.3513
6	Japanese (ja) 1979年イギリス総選挙		21.9428
7	Portuguese (pt) Eleições gerais no Reino Unido em 1979		19.4542
8	Turkish (tr) 1979 Birleşik Krallık genel seçimleri		14.2866
9	French (fr) Élections générales britanniques de 1979		13.3104
10	Finnish (fi) Yhdistyneen kuningaskunnan parlamenttivaalit 1979		11.9135

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1979 United Kingdom general election		3 593 901
2	German (de) Britische Unterhauswahl 1979		96 722
3	Spanish (es) Elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 1979		85 151
4	Italian (it) Elezioni generali nel Regno Unito del 1979		52 440
5	French (fr) Élections générales britanniques de 1979		46 172
6	Chinese (zh) 1979年英國大選		28 860
7	Russian (ru) Парламентские выборы в Великобритании (1979)		27 538
8	Japanese (ja) 1979年イギリス総選挙		19 349
9	Portuguese (pt) Eleições gerais no Reino Unido em 1979		19 246
10	Turkish (tr) 1979 Birleşik Krallık genel seçimleri		10 649

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1979 United Kingdom general election		16 407
2	Spanish (es) Elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 1979		432
3	German (de) Britische Unterhauswahl 1979		402
4	French (fr) Élections générales britanniques de 1979		317
5	Italian (it) Elezioni generali nel Regno Unito del 1979		308
6	Simple English (simple) 1979 United Kingdom general election		235
7	Chinese (zh) 1979年英國大選		204
8	Russian (ru) Парламентские выборы в Великобритании (1979)		116
9	Portuguese (pt) Eleições gerais no Reino Unido em 1979		60
10	Turkish (tr) 1979 Birleşik Krallık genel seçimleri		60

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1979 United Kingdom general election		239
2	German (de) Britische Unterhauswahl 1979		37
3	Italian (it) Elezioni generali nel Regno Unito del 1979		24
4	French (fr) Élections générales britanniques de 1979		20
5	Spanish (es) Elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 1979		19
6	Japanese (ja) 1979年イギリス総選挙		17
7	Norwegian (no) Parlamentsvalget i Storbritannia 1979		16
8	Chinese (zh) 1979年英國大選		15
9	Hebrew (he) הבחירות הכלליות בבריטניה 1979		14
10	Russian (ru) Парламентские выборы в Великобритании (1979)		13

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Elecciones generales del Reino Unido de 1979		1
2	Catalan (ca) Eleccions al Parlament del Regne Unit de 1979		0
3	Danish (da) Parlamentsvalget i Storbritannien 1979		0
4	German (de) Britische Unterhauswahl 1979		0
5	English (en) 1979 United Kingdom general election		0
6	Finnish (fi) Yhdistyneen kuningaskunnan parlamenttivaalit 1979		0
7	French (fr) Élections générales britanniques de 1979		0
8	Hebrew (he) הבחירות הכלליות בבריטניה 1979		0
9	Italian (it) Elezioni generali nel Regno Unito del 1979		0
10	Japanese (ja) 1979年イギリス総選挙		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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