The Casual Vacancy

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The Casual Vacancy - 2012 novel by J.K. Rowling. This book is the 883^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 786^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "The Casual Vacancy" in English Wikipedia has 61.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 47 references and 16 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 786^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 883^rd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article "The Casual Vacancy", its content was written by 169 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 586 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Casual Vacancy is on the 786^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 883^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 63 times in English Wikipedia and cited 405 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #206 in October 2012
• Global: #798 in September 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #628 in September 2012
• Global: #1987 in September 2012

There are 30 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) The Casual Vacancy		61.4691
2	Chinese (zh) 臨時空缺		56.865
3	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Den tomme stolen		51.6881
4	Japanese (ja) カジュアル・ベイカンシー 突然の空席		34.8365
5	Latin (la) The Casual Vacancy		30.0782
6	German (de) Ein plötzlicher Todesfall		28.6059
7	Ukrainian (uk) Несподівана вакансія		27.3312
8	Spanish (es) Una vacante imprevista		25.999
9	Catalan (ca) La vacant imprevista		25.3792
10	Dutch (nl) Een goede raad		24.0538

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Casual Vacancy		3 607 488
2	Russian (ru) Случайная вакансия		623 975
3	Spanish (es) Una vacante imprevista		353 166
4	Italian (it) Il seggio vacante		246 125
5	French (fr) Une place à prendre		220 356
6	Portuguese (pt) The Casual Vacancy		205 863
7	German (de) Ein plötzlicher Todesfall		183 293
8	Polish (pl) Trafny wybór		95 944
9	Chinese (zh) 臨時空缺		65 174
10	Japanese (ja) カジュアル・ベイカンシー 突然の空席		61 052

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Casual Vacancy		5 945
2	Russian (ru) Случайная вакансия		1 413
3	French (fr) Une place à prendre		457
4	Spanish (es) Una vacante imprevista		401
5	Italian (it) Il seggio vacante		373
6	Portuguese (pt) The Casual Vacancy		339
7	German (de) Ein plötzlicher Todesfall		327
8	Chinese (zh) 臨時空缺		197
9	Polish (pl) Trafny wybór		188
10	Ukrainian (uk) Несподівана вакансія		176

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Casual Vacancy		169
2	German (de) Ein plötzlicher Todesfall		57
3	French (fr) Une place à prendre		52
4	Russian (ru) Случайная вакансия		38
5	Italian (it) Il seggio vacante		35
6	Chinese (zh) 臨時空缺		24
7	Spanish (es) Una vacante imprevista		21
8	Portuguese (pt) The Casual Vacancy		20
9	Persian (fa) خلأ موقت		18
10	Dutch (nl) Een goede raad		18

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Portuguese (pt) The Casual Vacancy		1
2	Arabic (ar) منصب شاغر		0
3	Catalan (ca) La vacant imprevista		0
4	Czech (cs) Prázdné místo		0
5	Danish (da) Den tomme plads		0
6	German (de) Ein plötzlicher Todesfall		0
7	Greek (el) Ένας ξαφνικός θάνατος		0
8	English (en) The Casual Vacancy		0
9	Spanish (es) Una vacante imprevista		0
10	Persian (fa) خلأ موقت		0

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

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