The Candidate (1972)

The Candidate - 1972 film directed by Michael Ritchie. Article “The Candidate (1972)” in Dutch Wikipedia has 4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Greek Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “The Candidate (1972)”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 354 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 502 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #17199 in August 2013
• Global: #18941 in September 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #173206 in September 2016
• Global: #63540 in November 2016

There are 23 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	Greek (el) Ο Υποψήφιος (ταινία, 1972)		44.465
2	English (en) The Candidate (1972 film)		41.2923
3	French (fr) Votez McKay		21.8987
4	Arabic (ar) المرشح (فيلم)		21.1541
5	Portuguese (pt) O Candidato		20.4104
6	German (de) Bill McKay – Der Kandidat		19.6503
7	Catalan (ca) El candidat		17.4045
8	Russian (ru) Кандидат (фильм, 1972)		16.5862
9	Turkish (tr) The Candidate (film, 1972)		15.9546
10	Finnish (fi) Valtapeli (vuoden 1972 elokuva)		15.7341

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Candidate (1972)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Candidate (1972 film)		1 051 621
2	German (de) Bill McKay – Der Kandidat		47 319
3	Spanish (es) El candidato (película de 1972)		47 300
4	French (fr) Votez McKay		46 443
5	Italian (it) Il candidato (film)		30 384
6	Russian (ru) Кандидат (фильм, 1972)		26 592
7	Japanese (ja) 候補者ビル・マッケイ		23 389
8	Polish (pl) Kandydat (film 1972)		20 118
9	Portuguese (pt) O Candidato		9 341
10	Finnish (fi) Valtapeli (vuoden 1972 elokuva)		5 962

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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 "The Candidate (1972)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Candidate (1972 film)		5 401
2	Spanish (es) El candidato (película de 1972)		154
3	Italian (it) Il candidato (film)		151
4	Japanese (ja) 候補者ビル・マッケイ		149
5	Russian (ru) Кандидат (фильм, 1972)		147
6	French (fr) Votez McKay		127
7	German (de) Bill McKay – Der Kandidat		63
8	Portuguese (pt) O Candidato		44
9	Polish (pl) Kandydat (film 1972)		35
10	Finnish (fi) Valtapeli (vuoden 1972 elokuva)		30

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

Language versions of the article "The Candidate (1972)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Candidate (1972 film)		142
2	French (fr) Votez McKay		46
3	German (de) Bill McKay – Der Kandidat		29
4	Italian (it) Il candidato (film)		23
5	Spanish (es) El candidato (película de 1972)		18
6	Japanese (ja) 候補者ビル・マッケイ		14
7	Russian (ru) Кандидат (фильм, 1972)		13
8	Finnish (fi) Valtapeli (vuoden 1972 elokuva)		9
9	Hebrew (he) המועמד (סרט, 1972)		8
10	Polish (pl) Kandydat (film 1972)		8

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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 "The Candidate (1972)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Candidate (1972 film)		1
2	Italian (it) Il candidato (film)		1
3	Arabic (ar) المرشح (فيلم)		0
4	Catalan (ca) El candidat		0
5	German (de) Bill McKay – Der Kandidat		0
6	Greek (el) Ο Υποψήφιος (ταινία, 1972)		0
7	Spanish (es) El candidato (película de 1972)		0
8	Basque (eu) The Candidate (1972ko filma)		0
9	Persian (fa) نامزد (فیلم ۱۹۷۲)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Valtapeli (vuoden 1972 elokuva)		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 "The Candidate (1972)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) The Candidate (1972 film)		123
2	French (fr) Votez McKay		61
3	Japanese (ja) 候補者ビル・マッケイ		42
4	German (de) Bill McKay – Der Kandidat		39
5	Russian (ru) Кандидат (фильм, 1972)		32
6	Italian (it) Il candidato (film)		31
7	Polish (pl) Kandydat (film 1972)		19
8	Persian (fa) نامزد (فیلم ۱۹۷۲)		15
9	Portuguese (pt) O Candidato		15
10	Dutch (nl) The Candidate (1972)		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic المرشح (فيلم)
ca	Catalan El candidat
de	German Bill McKay – Der Kandidat
el	Greek Ο Υποψήφιος (ταινία, 1972)
en	English The Candidate (1972 film)
es	Spanish El candidato (película de 1972)
eu	Basque The Candidate (1972ko filma)
fa	Persian نامزد (فیلم ۱۹۷۲)
fi	Finnish Valtapeli (vuoden 1972 elokuva)
fr	French Votez McKay
gl	Galician O candidato
he	Hebrew המועמד (סרט, 1972)
it	Italian Il candidato (film)
ja	Japanese 候補者ビル・マッケイ
ko	Korean 후보자 (영화)
nl	Dutch The Candidate (1972)
pl	Polish Kandydat (film 1972)
pt	Portuguese O Candidato
ro	Romanian Candidatul (film)
ru	Russian Кандидат (фильм, 1972)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Kandidat (film, 1972)
sv	Swedish Bill McKay – utmanaren
tr	Turkish The Candidate (film, 1972)

Best Rank

Dutch: #173206 09.2016

Global: #63540 11.2016

Best Rank

Dutch: #17199 08.2013

Global: #18941 09.2016

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