Compulsory voting

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Compulsory voting

Quality:

Compulsory voting - practice of requiring citizens to register to vote and to go to their polling place or vote on election day. Article "Compulsory voting" in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 180 references and 29 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Compulsory voting" was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Compulsory voting", its content was written by 542 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1260 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 879 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2120 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3478 in October 2020
  • Global: #9754 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #17545 in May 2019
  • Global: #13928 in May 2019

There are 29 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Compulsory voting
85.7143
2Portuguese (pt)
Voto compulsório
50.439
3German (de)
Wahlpflicht
48.608
4Finnish (fi)
Äänestysvelvollisuus
36.144
5Norwegian (no)
Stemmeplikt
30.3282
6Russian (ru)
Обязательное голосование
26.7725
7Dutch (nl)
Stemplicht
26.6627
8Armenian (hy)
Պարտադիր քվեարկություն
26.2734
9French (fr)
Vote obligatoire
26.2037
10Spanish (es)
Sufragio obligatorio
23.0028
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Compulsory voting" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Compulsory voting
3 115 947
2German (de)
Wahlpflicht
609 180
3French (fr)
Vote obligatoire
583 257
4Spanish (es)
Sufragio obligatorio
496 896
5Japanese (ja)
義務投票制
364 023
6Dutch (nl)
Stemplicht
264 149
7Portuguese (pt)
Voto compulsório
198 081
8Polish (pl)
Przymus wyborczy
142 267
9Korean (ko)
의무투표제
131 152
10Russian (ru)
Обязательное голосование
106 882
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Compulsory voting" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Compulsory voting
12 882
2Polish (pl)
Przymus wyborczy
1 354
3Spanish (es)
Sufragio obligatorio
1 217
4Japanese (ja)
義務投票制
1 204
5German (de)
Wahlpflicht
903
6French (fr)
Vote obligatoire
697
7Chinese (zh)
強制投票
370
8Korean (ko)
의무투표제
341
9Portuguese (pt)
Voto compulsório
335
10Finnish (fi)
Äänestysvelvollisuus
309
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Compulsory voting" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Compulsory voting
542
2German (de)
Wahlpflicht
164
3French (fr)
Vote obligatoire
109
4Dutch (nl)
Stemplicht
100
5Spanish (es)
Sufragio obligatorio
56
6Japanese (ja)
義務投票制
37
7Portuguese (pt)
Voto compulsório
30
8Norwegian (no)
Stemmeplikt
24
9Finnish (fi)
Äänestysvelvollisuus
23
10Chinese (zh)
強制投票
23
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Compulsory voting" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Compulsory voting
5
2Japanese (ja)
義務投票制
1
3Dutch (nl)
Stemplicht
1
4Russian (ru)
Обязательное голосование
1
5Arabic (ar)
تصويت إجباري
0
6Catalan (ca)
Sufragi obligatori
0
7Czech (cs)
Povinná volební účast
0
8German (de)
Wahlpflicht
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Deviga voĉdonado
0
10Spanish (es)
Sufragio obligatorio
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Compulsory voting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Compulsory voting
879
2French (fr)
Vote obligatoire
405
3German (de)
Wahlpflicht
147
4Arabic (ar)
تصويت إجباري
113
5Spanish (es)
Sufragio obligatorio
107
6Chinese (zh)
強制投票
70
7Portuguese (pt)
Voto compulsório
44
8Dutch (nl)
Stemplicht
41
9Hebrew (he)
חובת הצבעה
36
10Japanese (ja)
義務投票制
35
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تصويت إجباري
caCatalan
Sufragi obligatori
csCzech
Povinná volební účast
deGerman
Wahlpflicht
enEnglish
Compulsory voting
eoEsperanto
Deviga voĉdonado
esSpanish
Sufragio obligatorio
faPersian
رأی‌دهی اجباری
fiFinnish
Äänestysvelvollisuus
frFrench
Vote obligatoire
heHebrew
חובת הצבעה
hiHindi
अनिवार्य मतदान
huHungarian
Kötelező szavazás
hyArmenian
Պարտադիր քվեարկություն
jaJapanese
義務投票制
koKorean
의무투표제
ltLithuanian
Privalomas balsavimas
nlDutch
Stemplicht
noNorwegian
Stemmeplikt
plPolish
Przymus wyborczy
ptPortuguese
Voto compulsório
roRomanian
Vot obligatoriu
ruRussian
Обязательное голосование
simpleSimple English
Compulsory voting
svSwedish
Obligatoriskt valdeltagande
thThai
การเลือกตั้งภาคบังคับ
trTurkish
Zorunlu oylama
ukUkrainian
Обов'язкове голосування
zhChinese
強制投票

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#17545
05.2019
Global:
#13928
05.2019

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3478
10.2020
Global:
#9754
10.2012

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Compulsory voting from Wikipedia articles about Electoral system of Australia, 2022 Australian federal election, Democracy Sausage, Politics of Australia and Suffrage. Whereas reading the article about Compulsory voting people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Unenforced law, Electoral system of Australia, Get out the vote, Christadelphians and Pitcairn Islands.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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