Strategic voting

Tactical voting - strategically voting for other than one's true preference, based on knowledge of the voting system. Article “Strategic voting” in English Wikipedia has 54.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 89 references and 32 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 13.61 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 “Strategic voting”, its content was written by 266 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 566 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 663 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1564 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1093 in October 2001
• Global: #1249 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #107721 in October 2015
• Global: #51194 in November 2018

There are 22 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) Strategic voting		54.4552
2	Azerbaijani (az) Taktiki səsvermə		39.2793
3	Chinese (zh) 策略性投票		35.0329
4	French (fr) Vote utile		31.2695
5	Russian (ru) Тактическое голосование		25.2406
6	German (de) Strategische Wahl		24.8916
7	Finnish (fi) Taktinen äänestäminen		24.0402
8	Czech (cs) Strategické hlasování		23.8828
9	Armenian (hy) Մարտավարական քվեարկություն		22.7163
10	Persian (fa) رأی‌دهی تاکتیکی		19.2244

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Strategic voting		686 405
2	Spanish (es) Voto útil		166 402
3	Chinese (zh) 策略性投票		160 031
4	Japanese (ja) 戦略投票		95 868
5	Portuguese (pt) Voto tático		82 523
6	French (fr) Vote utile		81 113
7	Polish (pl) Głosowanie taktyczne		47 423
8	Russian (ru) Тактическое голосование		29 117
9	Dutch (nl) Strategische stem		19 918
10	Hebrew (he) הצבעה טקטית		11 523

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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 "Strategic voting" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Strategic voting		2 043
2	Spanish (es) Voto útil		538
3	Chinese (zh) 策略性投票		310
4	Japanese (ja) 戦略投票		166
5	French (fr) Vote utile		121
6	Russian (ru) Тактическое голосование		117
7	Portuguese (pt) Voto tático		72
8	Polish (pl) Głosowanie taktyczne		46
9	Persian (fa) رأی‌دهی تاکتیکی		42
10	German (de) Strategische Wahl		17

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Strategic voting		266
2	French (fr) Vote utile		51
3	Chinese (zh) 策略性投票		40
4	Polish (pl) Głosowanie taktyczne		25
5	Japanese (ja) 戦略投票		23
6	Russian (ru) Тактическое голосование		23
7	Portuguese (pt) Voto tático		22
8	Spanish (es) Voto útil		18
9	Hebrew (he) הצבעה טקטית		18
10	Dutch (nl) Strategische stem		17

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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 "Strategic voting" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Taktiki səsvermə		1
2	Persian (fa) رأی‌دهی تاکتیکی		1
3	Arabic (ar) تصويت تكتيكي		0
4	Catalan (ca) Vot útil		0
5	Czech (cs) Strategické hlasování		0
6	German (de) Strategische Wahl		0
7	English (en) Strategic voting		0
8	Spanish (es) Voto útil		0
9	Basque (eu) Boto erabilgarri		0
10	Finnish (fi) Taktinen äänestäminen		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 "Strategic voting" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Strategic voting		663
2	French (fr) Vote utile		354
3	Armenian (hy) Մարտավարական քվեարկություն		166
4	Chinese (zh) 策略性投票		69
5	Arabic (ar) تصويت تكتيكي		64
6	Korean (ko) 전략적 투표		46
7	Spanish (es) Voto útil		44
8	Japanese (ja) 戦略投票		39
9	Finnish (fi) Taktinen äänestäminen		21
10	Persian (fa) رأی‌دهی تاکتیکی		18

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تصويت تكتيكي
az	Azerbaijani Taktiki səsvermə
ca	Catalan Vot útil
cs	Czech Strategické hlasování
de	German Strategische Wahl
en	English Strategic voting
es	Spanish Voto útil
eu	Basque Boto erabilgarri
fa	Persian رأی‌دهی تاکتیکی
fi	Finnish Taktinen äänestäminen
fr	French Vote utile
he	Hebrew הצבעה טקטית
hy	Armenian Մարտավարական քվեարկություն
ja	Japanese 戦略投票
ko	Korean 전략적 투표
nl	Dutch Strategische stem
pl	Polish Głosowanie taktyczne
pt	Portuguese Voto tático
ru	Russian Тактическое голосование
simple	Simple English Tactical voting
uk	Ukrainian Стратегічне голосування
zh	Chinese 策略性投票

Best Rank

English: #107721 10.2015

Global: #51194 11.2018

Best Rank

English: #1093 10.2001

Global: #1249 10.2001

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