Indirect election

Indirect election - process in which voters in an election do not choose between candidates for an office, but elect persons who will then make the choice; e.g. in Germany, voters elect Landtag, who elect the state government, which appoints its members to Bundesrat. Article “Indirect election” in English Wikipedia has 44.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 17 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.32 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.

In June 2025 the article “Indirect election” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Indirect election”, its content was written by 131 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 457 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1538 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4271 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #28808 in September 2004
• Global: #20134 in November 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #19803 in November 2008
• Global: #18184 in November 2020

There are 28 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) Indirect election		44.0731
2	Turkish (tr) İki dereceli seçim		30.9631
3	Russian (ru) Непрямые выборы		30.9157
4	Chinese (zh) 間接選舉		27.0597
5	Hindi (hi) अप्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचन		22.0495
6	Finnish (fi) Epäsuora vaalitapa		21.5868
7	Kazakh (kk) Жанама сайлау		21.3106
8	Swedish (sv) Indirekt val		20.4196
9	Polish (pl) Wybory pośrednie		18.4371
10	Norwegian (no) Indirekte valg		15.5066

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Indirect election		1 152 942
2	Spanish (es) Sufragio indirecto		584 588
3	Russian (ru) Непрямые выборы		209 964
4	French (fr) Scrutin indirect		205 159
5	Korean (ko) 간접 선거		197 972
6	Chinese (zh) 間接選舉		169 787
7	Japanese (ja) 間接選挙		135 827
8	Hindi (hi) अप्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचन		85 165
9	Turkish (tr) İki dereceli seçim		74 895
10	Dutch (nl) Getrapte verkiezingen		56 782

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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 "Indirect election" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Indirect election		6 732
2	Spanish (es) Sufragio indirecto		1 669
3	Chinese (zh) 間接選舉		804
4	Hindi (hi) अप्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचन		600
5	French (fr) Scrutin indirect		540
6	Korean (ko) 간접 선거		504
7	Japanese (ja) 間接選挙		477
8	Turkish (tr) İki dereceli seçim		431
9	Russian (ru) Непрямые выборы		410
10	Italian (it) Elezione indiretta		217

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Indirect election		131
2	Chinese (zh) 間接選舉		39
3	Korean (ko) 간접 선거		34
4	French (fr) Scrutin indirect		30
5	Dutch (nl) Getrapte verkiezingen		28
6	Spanish (es) Sufragio indirecto		21
7	Italian (it) Elezione indiretta		20
8	Vietnamese (vi) Bầu cử gián tiếp		18
9	Norwegian (no) Indirekte valg		17
10	Japanese (ja) 間接選挙		16

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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 "Indirect election" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Indirect election		2
2	Italian (it) Elezione indiretta		1
3	Arabic (ar) انتخابات غير مباشرة		0
4	Belarusian (be) Непрамыя выбары		0
5	Catalan (ca) Sufragi indirecte		0
6	Greek (el) Έμμεση εκλογή		0
7	Spanish (es) Sufragio indirecto		0
8	Persian (fa) انتخابات غیرمستقیم		0
9	Finnish (fi) Epäsuora vaalitapa		0
10	French (fr) Scrutin indirect		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 "Indirect election" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Indirect election		1 538
2	Chinese (zh) 間接選舉		703
3	French (fr) Scrutin indirect		700
4	Spanish (es) Sufragio indirecto		235
5	Japanese (ja) 間接選挙		177
6	Russian (ru) Непрямые выборы		174
7	Korean (ko) 간접 선거		103
8	Dutch (nl) Getrapte verkiezingen		76
9	Persian (fa) انتخابات غیرمستقیم		66
10	Arabic (ar) انتخابات غير مباشرة		45

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic انتخابات غير مباشرة
be	Belarusian Непрамыя выбары
ca	Catalan Sufragi indirecte
el	Greek Έμμεση εκλογή
en	English Indirect election
es	Spanish Sufragio indirecto
fa	Persian انتخابات غیرمستقیم
fi	Finnish Epäsuora vaalitapa
fr	French Scrutin indirect
gl	Galician Sufraxio indirecto
hi	Hindi अप्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचन
it	Italian Elezione indiretta
ja	Japanese 間接選挙
kk	Kazakh Жанама сайлау
ko	Korean 간접 선거
ms	Malay Pilihan raya tidak langsung
nl	Dutch Getrapte verkiezingen
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Indirekte val
no	Norwegian Indirekte valg
pl	Polish Wybory pośrednie
ru	Russian Непрямые выборы
sh	Serbo-Croatian Posredni izbori
sv	Swedish Indirekt val
th	Thai การเลือกตั้งทางอ้อม
tr	Turkish İki dereceli seçim
uk	Ukrainian Непрямі вибори
vi	Vietnamese Bầu cử gián tiếp
zh	Chinese 間接選舉

Best Rank

English: #19803 11.2008

Global: #18184 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #28808 09.2004

Global: #20134 11.2016

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