Populist vote share in Europe 2018

This statistic displays the national vote share of populist parties in selected European Union (EU) countries as of March 2018. Hungary has the highest share of populist votes, with 65.09 percent of it's population voting for populist parties. In Greece, Poland and Italy the populist vote share is over 50 percent, while in the United Kingdom, populist parties only accounted for 1.8 percent of votes.

Populist vote share in the national elections of selected European Union (EU) countries as of March 2018*

Characteristic	2008	2018
Hungary	43.7%	65.09%
Greece	17%	54.6%
Poland	32.1%	51.18%
Italy	8.3%	50.03%
Czechia	12.81%	49.6%
Cyprus	31.1%	35.38%
Slovakia	11.7%	34.34%
Estonia	26.1%	32.9%
Lithuania	29.04%	32.83%
Bulgaria	26%	32.65%
France	13.82%	27.09%
Austria	28.24%	26%
Finland	12.9%	24.78%
Netherlands	22.49%	22.2%
Germany	10.3%	21.98%
Spain	3.77%	21.15%
Denmark	13.9%	21.1%
Sweden	8.78%	18.58%
Ireland	8.03%	17.7%
Romania	3.15%	9.98%
Portugal	8.34%	9.38%
Slovenia	5.4%	8.2%
Latvia	7%	6.85%
Croatia	1.8%	6.49%
Luxembourg	1.9%	4.94%
Belgium	16.02%	4.09%
United Kingdom	2.2%	1.8%

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March 2018

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2018

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The source adds the following information: "How did Euronews decide what was a populist party? We used a classification developed by the University of Melbourne. It ranked parties on the extent to which they: opposed the political class, financial institutions, immigrants or ethnic minorities; depended on the personality of a leader; and violated liberal democratic norms."

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