Candidate

Candidate - prospective recipient of a specific award or position. Article “Candidate” in English Wikipedia has 26.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 8 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.41 points.

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 “Candidate”, its content was written by 157 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 424 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 747 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2863 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #25145 in August 2004
• Global: #7819 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #40512 in October 2008
• Global: #53975 in October 2008

There are 20 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	English (en) Candidate		26.7218
2	Spanish (es) Candidato		24.942
3	Bulgarian (bg) Кандидат		24.7991
4	German (de) Kandidat		24.745
5	Armenian (hy) Թեկնածու		23.7269
6	Finnish (fi) Ehdokas (politiikka)		22.2039
7	Chinese (zh) 參選人		21.6298
8	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		19.4536
9	French (fr) Candidat		17.3942
10	Hungarian (hu) Jelölt		15.9247

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Candidate		1 644 443
2	German (de) Kandidat		442 721
3	Spanish (es) Candidato		203 442
4	French (fr) Candidat		139 240
5	Chinese (zh) 參選人		69 571
6	Japanese (ja) 立候補		59 779
7	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		52 724
8	Czech (cs) Kandidát		29 954
9	Korean (ko) 후보		20 112
10	Persian (fa) نامزد انتخاباتی		19 341

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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 "Candidate" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Candidate		3 390
2	German (de) Kandidat		453
3	Japanese (ja) 立候補		260
4	French (fr) Candidat		253
5	Chinese (zh) 參選人		242
6	Spanish (es) Candidato		204
7	Korean (ko) 후보		142
8	Persian (fa) نامزد انتخاباتی		110
9	Czech (cs) Kandidát		75
10	Simple English (simple) Candidate		44

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Candidate		157
2	German (de) Kandidat		123
3	French (fr) Candidat		38
4	Czech (cs) Kandidát		18
5	Japanese (ja) 立候補		15
6	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		9
7	Persian (fa) نامزد انتخاباتی		8
8	Korean (ko) 후보		8
9	Spanish (es) Candidato		7
10	Chinese (zh) 參選人		7

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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 "Candidate" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 立候補		4
2	Armenian (hy) Թեկնածու		2
3	Romanian (ro) Candidat		1
4	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Кандидат		0
6	Czech (cs) Kandidát		0
7	Danish (da) Kandidat (valg)		0
8	German (de) Kandidat		0
9	English (en) Candidate		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Kandidato		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 "Candidate" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Kandidat		755
2	English (en) Candidate		747
3	Chinese (zh) 參選人		210
4	Armenian (hy) Թեկնածու		179
5	Danish (da) Kandidat (valg)		155
6	Spanish (es) Candidato		132
7	French (fr) Candidat		126
8	Japanese (ja) 立候補		116
9	Simple English (simple) Candidate		105
10	Arabic (ar) مرشح (شخص)		81

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مرشح (شخص)
bg	Bulgarian Кандидат
cs	Czech Kandidát
da	Danish Kandidat (valg)
de	German Kandidat
en	English Candidate
eo	Esperanto Kandidato
es	Spanish Candidato
fa	Persian نامزد انتخاباتی
fi	Finnish Ehdokas (politiikka)
fr	French Candidat
hu	Hungarian Jelölt
hy	Armenian Թեկնածու
ja	Japanese 立候補
ko	Korean 후보
ro	Romanian Candidat
simple	Simple English Candidate
sk	Slovak Kandidát
zh	Chinese 參選人
zhminnan	Min Nan Hāu-soán-jîn

Best Rank

English: #40512 10.2008

Global: #53975 10.2008

Best Rank

English: #25145 08.2004

Global: #7819 10.2003

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