Backbencher

Backbencher - parliamentarian who neither holds ministerial office nor shadows a minister. Article “Backbencher” in English Wikipedia has 19.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 6.47 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Backbencher”, its content was written by 113 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 272 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1054 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1852 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8123 in April 2003
• Global: #12949 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18760 in October 2022
• Global: #36138 in October 2022

There are 15 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, 2026 (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	German (de) Hinterbänkler		26.7533
2	Turkish (tr) Arka sıra		25.207
3	Danish (da) Backbencher		24.962
4	Russian (ru) Заднескамеечники		23.2612
5	Czech (cs) Backbencher		23.06
6	Korean (ko) 백벤처		21.0757
7	Portuguese (pt) Backbencher		20.6397
8	English (en) Backbencher		19.3993
9	Chinese (zh) 後座議員		19.3096
10	Simple English (simple) Backbencher		16.9546

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Backbencher" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backbencher		1 494 318
2	Japanese (ja) 陣笠議員		152 708
3	German (de) Hinterbänkler		131 520
4	Dutch (nl) Backbencher		47 890
5	Chinese (zh) 後座議員		46 250
6	French (fr) Arrière-ban		37 564
7	Polish (pl) Backbencher		21 162
8	Russian (ru) Заднескамеечники		19 205
9	Spanish (es) Backbencher		12 945
10	Portuguese (pt) Backbencher		1 165

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Backbencher" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Backbencher		4 055
2	Chinese (zh) 後座議員		418
3	Japanese (ja) 陣笠議員		375
4	German (de) Hinterbänkler		274
5	Dutch (nl) Backbencher		129
6	French (fr) Arrière-ban		127
7	Russian (ru) Заднескамеечники		108
8	Spanish (es) Backbencher		50
9	Polish (pl) Backbencher		25
10	Simple English (simple) Backbencher		23

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

Language versions of the article "Backbencher" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Backbencher		113
2	German (de) Hinterbänkler		62
3	Dutch (nl) Backbencher		25
4	French (fr) Arrière-ban		21
5	Japanese (ja) 陣笠議員		16
6	Chinese (zh) 後座議員		10
7	Spanish (es) Backbencher		6
8	Polish (pl) Backbencher		5
9	Czech (cs) Backbencher		3
10	Korean (ko) 백벤처		3

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

Language versions of the article "Backbencher" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Arrière-ban		1
2	Chinese (zh) 後座議員		1
3	Czech (cs) Backbencher		0
4	Danish (da) Backbencher		0
5	German (de) Hinterbänkler		0
6	English (en) Backbencher		0
7	Spanish (es) Backbencher		0
8	Japanese (ja) 陣笠議員		0
9	Korean (ko) 백벤처		0
10	Dutch (nl) Backbencher		0

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

Language versions of the article "Backbencher" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Backbencher		1 054
2	French (fr) Arrière-ban		226
3	German (de) Hinterbänkler		172
4	Chinese (zh) 後座議員		122
5	Turkish (tr) Arka sıra		88
6	Korean (ko) 백벤처		50
7	Dutch (nl) Backbencher		37
8	Russian (ru) Заднескамеечники		24
9	Spanish (es) Backbencher		23
10	Japanese (ja) 陣笠議員		19

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Backbencher
da	Danish Backbencher
de	German Hinterbänkler
en	English Backbencher
es	Spanish Backbencher
fr	French Arrière-ban
ja	Japanese 陣笠議員
ko	Korean 백벤처
nl	Dutch Backbencher
pl	Polish Backbencher
pt	Portuguese Backbencher
ru	Russian Заднескамеечники
simple	Simple English Backbencher
tr	Turkish Arka sıra
zh	Chinese 後座議員

Best Rank

English: #18760 10.2022

Global: #36138 10.2022

Best Rank

English: #8123 04.2003

Global: #12949 04.2003

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