Perennial candidate

Perennial candidate - political candidate who frequently runs for an elected office but seldom wins. Article “Perennial candidate” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Perennial candidate”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 557 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1114 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #15883 in September 2024
• Global: #14969 in May 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #69906 in January 2025
• Global: #36469 in July 2009

There are 8 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) Perennial candidate		75.5646
2	Chinese (zh) 常年候選人		54.416
3	Simple English (simple) Perennial candidate		28.4779
4	Japanese (ja) 泡沫候補		28.1336
5	Spanish (es) Candidato perenne		18.1387
6	Indonesian (id) Calon abadi		7.7004
7	Turkish (tr) Daimi aday		3.3741
8	Russian (ru) Вечный кандидат		1.778

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Perennial candidate" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perennial candidate		1 213 092
2	Japanese (ja) 泡沫候補		915 690
3	Russian (ru) Вечный кандидат		39 474
4	Chinese (zh) 常年候選人		24 296
5	Spanish (es) Candidato perenne		8 071
6	Indonesian (id) Calon abadi		3 667
7	Turkish (tr) Daimi aday		377
8	Simple English (simple) Perennial candidate		297

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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 "Perennial candidate" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Perennial candidate		20 283
2	Japanese (ja) 泡沫候補		2 207
3	Chinese (zh) 常年候選人		186
4	Russian (ru) Вечный кандидат		90
5	Spanish (es) Candidato perenne		71
6	Simple English (simple) Perennial candidate		39
7	Turkish (tr) Daimi aday		14
8	Indonesian (id) Calon abadi		9

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perennial candidate		394
2	Japanese (ja) 泡沫候補		92
3	Chinese (zh) 常年候選人		30
4	Russian (ru) Вечный кандидат		18
5	Spanish (es) Candidato perenne		16
6	Indonesian (id) Calon abadi		4
7	Turkish (tr) Daimi aday		2
8	Simple English (simple) Perennial candidate		1

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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 "Perennial candidate" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Perennial candidate		5
2	Japanese (ja) 泡沫候補		1
3	Spanish (es) Candidato perenne		0
4	Indonesian (id) Calon abadi		0
5	Russian (ru) Вечный кандидат		0
6	Simple English (simple) Perennial candidate		0
7	Turkish (tr) Daimi aday		0
8	Chinese (zh) 常年候選人		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 "Perennial candidate" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Perennial candidate		828
2	Japanese (ja) 泡沫候補		169
3	Chinese (zh) 常年候選人		39
4	Russian (ru) Вечный кандидат		32
5	Spanish (es) Candidato perenne		24
6	Simple English (simple) Perennial candidate		14
7	Indonesian (id) Calon abadi		5
8	Turkish (tr) Daimi aday		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English Perennial candidate
es	Spanish Candidato perenne
id	Indonesian Calon abadi
ja	Japanese 泡沫候補
ru	Russian Вечный кандидат
simple	Simple English Perennial candidate
tr	Turkish Daimi aday
zh	Chinese 常年候選人

Best Rank

Simple English: #69906 01.2025

Global: #36469 07.2009

Best Rank

Simple English: #15883 09.2024

Global: #14969 05.2017

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