Wasted vote

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Wasted vote

Quality:

Wasted vote - ballot that does not help elect a candidate; either a ballot cast for a losing candidate, or a ballot cast for a winning candidate in excess of that needed to win. Article “Wasted vote” in English Wikipedia has 47.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 40 references and 15 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.25 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 “Wasted vote” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Wasted vote”, its content was written by 72 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 134 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 249 times in English Wikipedia and cited 493 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #30374 in May 2025
  • Global: #59083 in May 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #264119 in May 2010
  • Global: #155388 in December 2012

There are 11 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)
Wasted vote
47.2479
2Dutch (nl)
Verspilde stem
42.9672
3German (de)
Verschwendete Stimme
36.934
4Indonesian (id)
Suara terbuang
31.0199
5Japanese (ja)
死票
24.1913
6Persian (fa)
رأی بی‌اثر
18.5791
7Arabic (ar)
صوت مهدر
15.3307
8Danish (da)
Stemmespild
12.4789
9Czech (cs)
Propadlý hlas
7.8273
10Finnish (fi)
Hukkaääni
3.7119
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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 "Wasted vote" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wasted vote
246 793
2Japanese (ja)
死票
148 515
3Korean (ko)
사표
22 496
4Czech (cs)
Propadlý hlas
15 329
5Finnish (fi)
Hukkaääni
5 989
6Danish (da)
Stemmespild
3 892
7Persian (fa)
رأی بی‌اثر
3 496
8German (de)
Verschwendete Stimme
3 216
9Indonesian (id)
Suara terbuang
2 008
10Dutch (nl)
Verspilde stem
136
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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 "Wasted vote" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Wasted vote
2 398
2Korean (ko)
사표
715
3Japanese (ja)
死票
323
4Czech (cs)
Propadlý hlas
104
5German (de)
Verschwendete Stimme
20
6Dutch (nl)
Verspilde stem
20
7Danish (da)
Stemmespild
16
8Finnish (fi)
Hukkaääni
16
9Indonesian (id)
Suara terbuang
14
10Arabic (ar)
صوت مهدر
7
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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 "Wasted vote" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wasted vote
72
2German (de)
Verschwendete Stimme
15
3Japanese (ja)
死票
15
4Indonesian (id)
Suara terbuang
6
5Czech (cs)
Propadlý hlas
5
6Danish (da)
Stemmespild
5
7Persian (fa)
رأی بی‌اثر
4
8Korean (ko)
사표
4
9Dutch (nl)
Verspilde stem
4
10Finnish (fi)
Hukkaääni
3
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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 "Wasted vote" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Wasted vote
1
2Dutch (nl)
Verspilde stem
1
3Arabic (ar)
صوت مهدر
0
4Czech (cs)
Propadlý hlas
0
5Danish (da)
Stemmespild
0
6German (de)
Verschwendete Stimme
0
7Persian (fa)
رأی بی‌اثر
0
8Finnish (fi)
Hukkaääni
0
9Indonesian (id)
Suara terbuang
0
10Japanese (ja)
死票
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 "Wasted vote" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Wasted vote
249
2Danish (da)
Stemmespild
81
3Dutch (nl)
Verspilde stem
61
4Japanese (ja)
死票
40
5Indonesian (id)
Suara terbuang
23
6Czech (cs)
Propadlý hlas
10
7Persian (fa)
رأی بی‌اثر
9
8German (de)
Verschwendete Stimme
7
9Korean (ko)
사표
5
10Arabic (ar)
صوت مهدر
4
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
صوت مهدر
csCzech
Propadlý hlas
daDanish
Stemmespild
deGerman
Verschwendete Stimme
enEnglish
Wasted vote
faPersian
رأی بی‌اثر
fiFinnish
Hukkaääni
idIndonesian
Suara terbuang
jaJapanese
死票
koKorean
사표
nlDutch
Verspilde stem

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#264119
05.2010
Global:
#155388
12.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#30374
05.2025
Global:
#59083
05.2022

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Wasted vote from Wikipedia articles about Gerrymandering, Five percent rule, First-past-the-post voting, Proportional representation and Instant-runoff voting. Whereas reading the article about Wasted vote people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Election threshold, Single transferable vote, Pareto efficiency, Proportional representation and Spoilt vote.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 死票
ko: 사표

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