Voting Rights Act of 1965

Quality:

Voting Rights Act of 1965 - piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Article “Voting Rights Act of 1965” in Simple English Wikipedia has 90.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 164 references and 7 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Voting Rights Act of 1965” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (940^th place) and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Voting Rights Act of 1965”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 889 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 118 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4318 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #27 in April 2019
• Global: #4828 in June 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3200 in June 2013
• Global: #6683 in June 2013

There are 21 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) Voting Rights Act of 1965		99.1683
2	Simple English (simple) Voting Rights Act of 1965		90.7692
3	Japanese (ja) 投票権法 (1965年)		76.3028
4	French (fr) Voting Rights Act de 1965		38.5168
5	Malay (ms) Akta Hak Undi 1965		38.398
6	German (de) Voting Rights Act		37.7828
7	Hebrew (he) חוק זכות ההצבעה (1965)		27.1323
8	Romanian (ro) Legea drepturilor la vot din 1965		25.9466
9	Basque (eu) 1965eko Boto Eskubide Legea		25.8229
10	Italian (it) Voting Rights Act		24.9143

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Voting Rights Act of 1965		9 829 379
2	Spanish (es) Ley de derecho de voto de 1965		322 655
3	French (fr) Voting Rights Act de 1965		230 108
4	German (de) Voting Rights Act		182 592
5	Italian (it) Voting Rights Act		54 896
6	Portuguese (pt) Lei dos direitos de voto de 1965		43 928
7	Japanese (ja) 投票権法 (1965年)		35 236
8	Chinese (zh) 選舉法案 (1965年)		25 620
9	Hebrew (he) חוק זכות ההצבעה (1965)		20 300
10	Simple English (simple) Voting Rights Act of 1965		18 838

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) Voting Rights Act of 1965		18 602
2	Spanish (es) Ley de derecho de voto de 1965		1 110
3	French (fr) Voting Rights Act de 1965		823
4	German (de) Voting Rights Act		636
5	Simple English (simple) Voting Rights Act of 1965		425
6	Chinese (zh) 選舉法案 (1965年)		242
7	Japanese (ja) 投票権法 (1965年)		231
8	Italian (it) Voting Rights Act		201
9	Portuguese (pt) Lei dos direitos de voto de 1965		160
10	Hebrew (he) חוק זכות ההצבעה (1965)		150

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Voting Rights Act of 1965		595
2	German (de) Voting Rights Act		62
3	French (fr) Voting Rights Act de 1965		62
4	Italian (it) Voting Rights Act		34
5	Hebrew (he) חוק זכות ההצבעה (1965)		25
6	Spanish (es) Ley de derecho de voto de 1965		21
7	Simple English (simple) Voting Rights Act of 1965		21
8	Chinese (zh) 選舉法案 (1965年)		15
9	Portuguese (pt) Lei dos direitos de voto de 1965		12
10	Japanese (ja) 投票権法 (1965年)		11

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	English (en) Voting Rights Act of 1965		11
2	Russian (ru) Закон об избирательных правах (1965)		3
3	Simple English (simple) Voting Rights Act of 1965		3
4	Romanian (ro) Legea drepturilor la vot din 1965		2
5	Swedish (sv) Voting Rights Act of 1965		1
6	Arabic (ar) قانون حق التصويت لعام 1965		0
7	German (de) Voting Rights Act		0
8	Spanish (es) Ley de derecho de voto de 1965		0
9	Basque (eu) 1965eko Boto Eskubide Legea		0
10	Persian (fa) لایحه حقوق رأی‌گیری ۱۹۶۵		0

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

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