UN Votes

United States of America

Permanent Security Council member
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5,694

GA votes

1,439 yes · 3,044 no · 1,174 abstain

2,815

SC votes

2,636 yes · 1 no · 98 abstain

95

Vetoes cast

P5 alignment

How often United States of America voted the same way as each permanent Security Council member, of the resolutions both cast a yes/no/abstain vote on.

Permanent memberGA onlyGA + SC
France51.8%66.3%
Russian Federation21.6%51.5%
United Kingdom60.4%72.5%
China19.1%43.4%
FRA — 33.9%RUS — 14.1%GBR — 39.5%CHN — 12.5%

The pie chart is based on the “GA only” column, showing each member’s share of the combined total across all shown members (it does not sum those percentages to 100% on its own) — see the table for the actual agreement rate with each. The “GA + SC” column blends in Security Council votes, which are adopted almost unanimously and so tend to pull every country’s number up.

P5 alignment over time

Same GA-only metric, by year. A member’s line starts wherever it first has enough shared votes in a year to be meaningful (at least 5) — for Russia, that’s never before 1991, since the USSR voted under a separate historical record.

0%50%100%1946195019651980199520102025
FRARUSGBRCHN

S/RES/31(1947)

Security Council resolution 31 (1947) [on the Security Council Committee of Good Offices on the Indonesian question] · 1947-08-25

SCYes

S/RES/29(1947)

Security Council resolution 29 (1947) [on admission of Yemen and Pakistan to membership in the United Nations] · 1947-08-21

SCYes

S/RES/28(1947)

Security Council resolution 28 (1947) [on appointment of a subcommittee of the representatives of the delegations which have submitted proposals on the Greek question] · 1947-08-06

SCYes

S/RES/27(1947)

Security Council resolution 27 (1947) [calling upon the Netherlands and Indonesia to cease hostilities] · 1947-08-01

SCYes

S/RES/26(1947)

Security Council resolution 26 (1947) [on the provisional rules of procedure of the Security Council] · 1947-06-04

SCYes

S/RES/25(1947)

Security Council resolution 25 (1947) [on referring to the Committee on the Admission of New Members the application of Italy to membership in the United Nations] · 1947-05-22

SCYes

S/RES/24(1947)

Security Council resolution 24 (1947) [referring to the Committee on the Admission of New Members the application of Hungary to membership in the United Nations] · 1947-04-30

SCYes

S/RES/23(1947)

Security Council resolution 23 (1947) [on the Commission of Investigation established by Security Council resolution 15 (1946) on the Greek question] · 1947-04-18

SCYes

S/RES/22(1947)

Security Council resolution 22 (1947) [on incidents in the Corfu Channel) · 1947-04-09

SCYes

S/RES/21(1947)

Security Council resolution 21 (1947) [on the Trusteeship Agreement for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands] · 1947-04-02

SCYes

S/RES/20(1947)

Security Council resolution 20 (1947) [on international control of atomic energy] · 1947-03-10

SCYes

S/RES/19(1947)

Security Council resolution 19 (1947) [on incidents in the Corfu Channel] · 1947-02-27

SCYes

S/RES/18(1947)

Security Council resolution 18 (1947) [on regulation and reduction of armaments] · 1947-02-13

SCYes

S/RES/17(1947)

Security Council resolution 17 (1947) [requesting postponement of the execution of persons sentenced by the Greek Government] · 1947-02-10

SCYes

S/RES/16(1947)

Security Council resolution 16 (1947) [on approval of the statute of the Free Territory of Trieste, Italy] · 1947-01-10

SCYes

S/RES/15(1946)

Security Council resolution 15 (1946) [on establishment of the Commission of Investigation on the Greek question] · 1946-12-19

SCYes

S/RES/14(1946)

Security Council resolution 14 (1946) [on the term of office of Presidency of the Security Council] · 1946-12-16

SCAbstain

S/RES/13(1946)

Security Council resolution 13 (1946) [on admission of Siam (Thailand) to membership in the United Nations] · 1946-12-12

SCYes

S/RES/12(1946)

Security Council resolution 12 (1946) [on border incidents between Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia] · 1946-12-10

SCYes

S/RES/11(1946)

Security Council resolution 11 (1946) [on the conditions under which Switzerland might become a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice] · 1946-11-15

SCNon-voting

S/RES/10(1946)

Security Council resolution 10 (1946) [on removing the Spanish question from the list of matters of which the Council is seized] · 1946-11-04

SCYes

S/RES/9(1946)

Security Council resolution 9 (1946) [on the International Court of Justice] · 1946-10-15

SCYes

S/RES/8(1946)

Security Council resolution 8 (1946) [on admission of Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden to membership in the United Nations] · 1946-08-29

SCYes

S/RES/7(1946)

Security Council resolution 7 (1946) [deciding to keep the situation in Spain under observation] · 1946-06-26

SCNon-voting

S/RES/6(1946)

Security Council resolution 6 (1946) [on procedures for admission of new members to the United Nations] · 1946-05-17

SCYes

S/RES/5(1946)

Security Council resolution 5 (1946) [on withdrawal of USSR troops from Iran] · 1946-05-08

SCYes

S/RES/4(1946)

Security Council resolution 4 (1946) [appointing a subcommittee on the Spanish question] · 1946-04-29

SCYes

S/RES/3(1946)

Security Council resolution 3 (1946) [on withdrawal of USSR troops from Iran] · 1946-04-04

SCYes

S/RES/2(1946)

Security Council resolution 2 (1946) [on negotiations between Iran and USSR] · 1946-01-30

SCYes

S/RES/1(1946)

Security Council resolution 1 (1946) [on establishment of the Military Staff Committee] · 1946-01-25

SCYes

Vetoes cast by United States of America

S/2025/583 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2025-09-18

S/2025/353 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2025-06-04

S/2024/835 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2024-11-20

S/2024/312 — Admission of new Members

2024-04-18

S/2024/173 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2024-02-20

Oral amendment — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-12-22

S/2023/970 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-12-08

S/2023/773 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2023-10-18

S/2020/852 — Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts

2020-08-31

S/2018/516 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2018-06-01

S/2017/1060  — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2017-12-18

S/2011/24 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2011-02-18

S/2006/878 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2006-11-11

S/2006/508 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2006-07-13

S/2004/783 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2004-10-05

S/2004/240 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2004-03-25

S/2003/980 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2003-10-14

S/2003/891 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2003-09-16

S/2002/1385 — Middle East, including Palestinian question

2002-12-20

S/2002/712 — Bosnia and Herzegovina

2002-06-30

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