| Number: | 40/50 |
| Organ: | GA |
| Date: | 2 December |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Code: | A/RES/40/50 |
| Document: | https://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/40/a40r050.htm |
| For: | 96 |
| Abstention: | 39 |
| Against: | 7 |
| Subject: | Question of Western Sahara |
| Result: | Adopted |
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 40/50, entitled Question of Western Sahara, is a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly about the situation in Western Sahara, which was adopted on 2 December 1985 at the 40th session of the General Assembly.[1]
On 2 December 1985, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/40/50 by a recorded vote of 96 in favour to 7 against, with 39 abstentions and 17 countries not voting.[2] The table below shows voting results by country:
| For | Against | Abstentions | |
| Democratic Republic of Afghanistan | Central African Republic | Belgium | |
| People's Socialist Republic of Albania | Equatorial Guinea | Brunei Darussalam | |
 Algeria | Gabon | Myanmar | |
 Angola | Guatemala | Canada | |
| Antigua & Barbuda | Morocco | Chad | |
 Argentina | Philippines | Chile | |
 Australia | Zaire | Denmark | |
 Austria | El Salvador | ||
 Bahamas | France | ||
| Barbados | Federal Republic of Germany | ||
| Belize | Iceland | ||
| People's Republic of Benin | Indonesia | ||
 Bhutan | Iraq | ||
| Bolivia | Ireland | ||
 Botswana | Israel | ||
| Brazil | Italy | ||
| Bulgaria | Côte d'Ivoire | ||
| Burkina Faso | Japan | ||
| Burundi | Jordan | ||
| Belarus | Luxembourg | ||
| Cameroon | Malaysia | ||
| Cape Verde | Maldives | ||
| Colombia | Norway | ||
| Congo | Pakistan | ||
| Costa Rica | Paraguay | ||
| Cuba | Portugal | ||
| Cyprus | Samoa | ||
| Czechoslovakia | Saudi Arabia | ||
| People's Democratic Republic of Yemen | Singapore | ||
| Dominican Republic | Solomon Islands | ||
| Ecuador | Somali Democratic Republic | ||
| Egypt | Sri Lanka | ||
| Ethiopia | Thailand | ||
| Fiji | Turkey | ||
| Finland | United Kingdom | ||
| Gambia | United States | ||
| German Democratic Republic | |||
| Ghana | |||
| Greece | |||
| Grenada | |||
| Guinea-Bissau | |||
| Guyana | |||
| Haiti | |||
| Honduras | |||
| Hungary | |||
| India | |||
| Islamic Republic of Iran | |||
| Jamaica | |||
| Kenya | |||
| Lao People's Democratic Republic | |||
| Lesotho | |||
| Liberia | |||
| Madagascar | |||
| Malawi | |||
| Mali | |||
| Malta | |||
| Mauritania | |||
| Mauritius | |||
| Mexico | |||
| Mongolia | |||
| Mozambique | |||
| New Zealand | |||
| Nicaragua | |||
| Niger | |||
| Nigeria | |||
| Panama | |||
| Papua New Guinea | |||
| Peru | |||
| Polish People's Republic | |||
| Rwanda | |||
| Saint Lucia | |||
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |||
| São Tomé and Príncipe | |||
| Senegal | |||
| Seychelles | |||
| Sierra Leone | |||
| Spain | |||
| Sudan | |||
| Suriname | |||
| Swaziland | |||
| Sweden | |||
| Syrian Arab Republic | |||
| Togo | |||
| Trinidad and Tobago | |||
| Tunisia | |||
| Uganda | |||
| Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | |||
| USSR | |||
| United Republic of Tanzania | |||
| Uruguay | |||
| Vanuatu | |||
| Venezuela | |||
| Vietnam | |||
| Yugoslavia | |||
| Zambia | |||
| Zimbabwe |