Absentee ballot

Absentee ballot - ballot cast by someone unable or unwilling to attend their assigned polling station. Article “Absentee ballot” in English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 111 references and 34 sections.

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 “Absentee ballot” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Absentee ballot”, its content was written by 169 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 296 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 507 times in English Wikipedia and cited 858 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7302 in August 2020
• Global: #27041 in August 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #5143 in November 2020
• Global: #13074 in November 2020

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Absentee ballot		84.9878
2	Arabic (ar) اقتراع غيابي		35.7767
3	Chinese (zh) 缺席投票		31.5806
4	Turkish (tr) Uzaktan oy kullanma		19.4286
5	Persian (fa) رأی‌گیری غیابی		14.2677
6	Japanese (ja) 不在者投票制度		13.4714
7	Spanish (es) Voto a distancia		12.9025
8	Korean (ko) 부재자 투표		12.281
9	Hebrew (he) הצבעה מרחוק		8.4535
10	French (fr) Vote par procuration (droit électoral)		7.6114

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Absentee ballot" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Absentee ballot		1 553 590
2	Japanese (ja) 不在者投票制度		543 113
3	Chinese (zh) 缺席投票		56 444
4	Spanish (es) Voto a distancia		53 359
5	Korean (ko) 부재자 투표		36 374
6	Arabic (ar) اقتراع غيابي		13 798
7	German (de) Stellvertreterwahlrecht		13 234
8	French (fr) Vote par procuration (droit électoral)		6 136
9	Hebrew (he) הצבעה מרחוק		2 798
10	Persian (fa) رأی‌گیری غیابی		2 703

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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 "Absentee ballot" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Absentee ballot		3 121
2	Japanese (ja) 不在者投票制度		1 124
3	Chinese (zh) 缺席投票		895
4	Korean (ko) 부재자 투표		208
5	Spanish (es) Voto a distancia		91
6	Hebrew (he) הצבעה מרחוק		43
7	German (de) Stellvertreterwahlrecht		42
8	Arabic (ar) اقتراع غيابي		25
9	French (fr) Vote par procuration (droit électoral)		24
10	Persian (fa) رأی‌گیری غیابی		13

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Absentee ballot		169
2	Japanese (ja) 不在者投票制度		32
3	Chinese (zh) 缺席投票		20
4	Hebrew (he) הצבעה מרחוק		19
5	Spanish (es) Voto a distancia		13
6	Korean (ko) 부재자 투표		11
7	German (de) Stellvertreterwahlrecht		10
8	French (fr) Vote par procuration (droit électoral)		8
9	Arabic (ar) اقتراع غيابي		7
10	Persian (fa) رأی‌گیری غیابی		4

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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 "Absentee ballot" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Absentee ballot		3
2	Arabic (ar) اقتراع غيابي		0
3	German (de) Stellvertreterwahlrecht		0
4	Spanish (es) Voto a distancia		0
5	Persian (fa) رأی‌گیری غیابی		0
6	French (fr) Vote par procuration (droit électoral)		0
7	Hebrew (he) הצבעה מרחוק		0
8	Japanese (ja) 不在者投票制度		0
9	Korean (ko) 부재자 투표		0
10	Turkish (tr) Uzaktan oy kullanma		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 "Absentee ballot" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Absentee ballot		507
2	Chinese (zh) 缺席投票		80
3	Japanese (ja) 不在者投票制度		73
4	Arabic (ar) اقتراع غيابي		63
5	Hebrew (he) הצבעה מרחוק		56
6	French (fr) Vote par procuration (droit électoral)		29
7	Spanish (es) Voto a distancia		23
8	Korean (ko) 부재자 투표		14
9	Persian (fa) رأی‌گیری غیابی		7
10	German (de) Stellvertreterwahlrecht		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic اقتراع غيابي
de	German Stellvertreterwahlrecht
en	English Absentee ballot
es	Spanish Voto a distancia
fa	Persian رأی‌گیری غیابی
fr	French Vote par procuration (droit électoral)
he	Hebrew הצבעה מרחוק
ja	Japanese 不在者投票制度
ko	Korean 부재자 투표
tr	Turkish Uzaktan oy kullanma
zh	Chinese 缺席投票

Best Rank

English: #5143 11.2020

Global: #13074 11.2020

Best Rank

English: #7302 08.2020

Global: #27041 08.2020

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